Empower Yourself Women!

Today our office chit-chat was about sex workers who I saw raided by the police, people (read: men) yelled at them. I shared some stories from when I worked as interpreter for an HIV/AIDS NGO and interviewed sex workers. How young and innocent some sex workers were.

On one occasion we had a relax convo with some new girls in a "complex", we asked the girls whether they offered their costumers to use condoms before having intercourse. Mostly they said they did and the costumers mostly declined, but I read confusion on one girl's face. She was young, looked like the youngest among the girl. With low voice she told her friend that her client(s) wanted to use condom but she refused. DANG!

I can guarantee she didn't share the same reason why she didn't want to use condom with big number of men. Nothing about discomfort or dissatisfaction. She was just completely innocent with some fears towards stuff she never encountered before. She must have felt weirded out of that offer (IF she was that innocent). I could not blame her, just felt so sorry of her innocence (rarely we feel this way) and that she didn't feel like asking to anyone about this, until that day.

So we explained to her about condom, how it's supposed to protect her... something that she was supposed to enforce her clients to use.

Back to the talk at the office, I mentioned to the others that there is female condom. Apparently no one has heard of it before, they started asking me how it was and how to put it on. Every body was aware of female anatomy lol. Well I know the shape of female condom, bigger than male condom, same material, with no dead-end hehehe. But then WE wondered how it's supposed to be inserted into vagina. Would we need male's organ to push it inside? If so, then it kinda intrigue the idea of this female condom. Choice to protect ourselves (women), when we are faced to the fact that men refuse to use condom. Hmm so it's more like saying to men "suck it up!" hehe. Anyway Google helped, I found this picture of how to put this condom on. OUCHIE x__x

As far as I know, female condom is being promoted in Africa along with big number of rapes there. Self protection that is. Question from me now, so girls have to put this on daily basis? :|

It's even hard to put it on!