Polygyny Legalization & Women’s Inheritance

Kenyan President Signs Polygyny Law
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It brings civil law, where a man was only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.  It allows men to take more wives without consulting existing spouses.  It has abolished the practice of unofficial traditional marriages which were never registered and could be ended without any legal divorce proceedings.  Kenyans now have to be 18 to marry and this applies to all cultures.  The law now allows for equal property and inheritance rights – previously a woman had to prove her contribution to the couple’s wealth.

“Through polygamous marriages women in precolonial Africa often had greater personal autonomy. As new wives joined a compound, older ones could focus on their trading. And successful women traders, such as the Iyalodes in Yorubaland, had a lot of power. While autonomous female traders are traditionally linked to West Africa, studies have found a long history of women’s trading also in places such as among the Kikuyu in Kenya as well as groups in Uganda and Zambia.

Of course, whatever autonomy polygamy afforded back then, it was subsumed by colonialism and the rise of puritanical missionary teaching.”

“That is not to say that married life was all that mattered to women, or that polygamy didn’t come with advantages for women, like independent trading, finances and legal rights.

Read more at:  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27206590

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Childlessness Puts Women at a Greater Risk of Cancer: Study

Breast, ovarian and uterine cancers  result from childlessness, say scientists.

Not having children is a risk factor for cancer because pregnancy, as well as breastfeeding a baby, reduces the number of ovulatory cycles a woman has in her lifetime. More ovulatory cycles increases cancer risk. Women who begin their periods at an early age and hit the menopause late also have a higher risk.

In the first half of the 20th century, scientists who studied nearly 32,000 Catholic nuns in the US established that their death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer were higher than for other women of their age. In 1970, it was formally recognised that the lack of childbearing in nuns raised their breast cancer risk.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/dec/07/catholic-church-allow-nuns-contraceptive

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Circumcision Helps Cut HPV Transmission Rate, Study Finds

Among HIV-negative sexual partners, male circumcision helps prevent the transmission of human papillomavirus from men to women, according to a new study.

However, circumcision offers only partial protection and partners must still practice safe sex, the researchers pointed out.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infection that puts women at risk for cervical cancer. Previous research has shown that circumcision reduces the risk of HPV infection in men.

In this new study, researchers analyzed data from two clinical trials in Uganda that followed HIV-negative men and their HIV-negative female partners between 2003 and 2006. The incidence of new high-risk HPV infection was 23 percent lower for women with circumcised partners than for those with uncircumcised partners, the investigators found.

“Along with previous trial results in men, these findings indicate that male circumcision should now be accepted as an efficacious intervention for reducing heterosexually acquired high-risk and low-risk HPV infections in men who do not have HIV and in their female partners. However, our results indicate that protection is only partial; the promotion of safe sex practices is also important,” concluded Drs. Aaron Tobian and Maria Wawer, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

The study was published online Jan. 6 in The Lancet.

In an accompanying commentary, Dr. Anna R. Giuliano of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues wrote: “Recent findings add important evidence for the promotion of male circumcision in countries without well-established programs for cervical screening. Additional interventions to reduce HPV infection, such as provision of vaccines for HPV prevention, will be essential to reduce invasive cervical cancer worldwide. Male circumcision is associated with slight reductions in high-risk HPV, while licensed HPV vaccines protect with high effectiveness against only a limited number of HPV types. Therefore, the two interventions are likely to have important synergistic effects.”

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about HPV prevention.

— Robert Preidt

SOURCE: The Lancet, news release, Jan. 6, 2011

Last Updated: Jan. 07, 2011

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Circumcision Helps Cut HPV Transmission Rate, Study Finds

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Five Reasons You Should Have Sex With Your Husband Every Day: Meg in Progress

1. Being a mother, one of the ultimate expressions of womanhood, can often leave a girl feeling stripped of her femininity.

2. If you want your husband to act like a man, you need to treat him like a man.

3. You need to have a moment in each day that is just about the two of you.

4. Sex relieves stress.

5. It is so much blasted fun.

Read More at http://www.meginprogress.com/five-reasons-you-should-have-sex-with-your-husband-every-day/

03/04/2014 by taj-akoben Categories: pregnancy & childbirth, reproductive, sexualityTags: FEMININITY, Five Reasons You Should Have Sex With Your Husband Every Day, husband, intimacy, meg in progress, postpartum sex, sex after baby, sex relieves headaches, sex relieves stress, sexless marriage 1 Comment

Almost 1/3 of Moms Say They’ve Gone YEARS without Sex

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby and a sexless marriage…

According to a Family Circle survey, almost a third of moms say that they’ve gone a few years without having sex. We speak to experts and parents about how babies are affecting the bedroom.

Why Many Couples Go Years without Having Sex

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/archive/segment/why-many-couples-go-years-without-having-sex/53150ea378c90a1a64000763?cn=tbla

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Muslim Women’s Dress: A Tool of Black Liberation

Pervasive stereotypes of black women have worked to deny them dignity and rights. The “jezebel” image, stereotyping black women as sexually loose, has its roots in slavery to justify the systematic raping of enslaved women. It is in fighting this image that I see long dresses, or the hijab, as tools of liberation.

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Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” is an Anti-Birth Control Anthem

“In one scene [of ex-girlfriend Esther Anderson’s film “Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend”], we learn the origin of the lyrics to “I Shot the Sheriff.” At the time, Ms. Anderson was on birth control pills, and Mr. Marley thought the pills were sacrilege. He wanted her to have his baby. He believed their love was strong and it was sin to kill his seed. The doctor who prescribed those baby-killing pills became the sheriff. And thanks to this movie, these lyrics, which Anderson helped write, are now put into a proper context:

‘Sheriff John Brown always hated me,
For what, I don’t know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow'”

From: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2012/04/untold_stories_bob_marleys_ex.php

Complete Song Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+marley/i+shot+the+sheriff_20021744.html

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The 5 Parts of Sex Porn Doesn’t Prepare You For

Know before you go.  Follow this link (http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-parts-sex-porn-doesnt-prepare-you-for/) to learn what it’s really like.

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5.Queefs

4. Cardio

3. Stank

2. Spillage

1.  Being Too Tired to do It

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Does Equality Kill Sex?

‘In an attempt to be gender neutral, we may have become gender-neutered.’

There’s a reason why opposites attract.  Couples who are best friends and split the chores and childcare have far less sex

Men and women, she said, are continuously sending out cues that signal attractiveness to a potential partner, and often these cues involve “an ongoing reminder of difference and the sense of mystery and excitement that comes with the knowledge that the other person isn’t you”.

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17/02/2014 by taj-akoben Categories: biology, health, love, reproductive, sexualityTags: dimorphism, female chores, FEMININITY, feminism, gender differentiation, gender equality, gender neutral, GENDER ROLES, male chores, marital sex, masculinity, masculism, reversed gender roles 1 Comment