Sexual Health

• Have you ever faced an unplanned pregnancy?

• Do you wonder about coils, implants, condoms, pills and other types of contraception?

• Would you like to know how to avoid catching a sexually transmitted disease like HIV?

• Are you a victim of Domestic Violence or Rape?

You have come to the right place. This blog is for women like yourself who have to deal with sexual health dilemmas.

But why should you listen to me?

Five years ago, I was faced with an unplanned pregnancy and I still remember the agony of trying to decide what to do. I went on to have my lovely daughter but this event made me aware that, just like me, many women face such difficult and life-changing decisions. Maybe, I thought, they’d appreciate a place to talk about these subjects.

As a family physician, I see the distress women go through when they decide to have an abortion. I witness the trauma felt by patients who have been diagnosed with HIV and the devastating effect that this disease has on their relationships.

It hurts me to see young girls having their reproductive systems messed up by gonorrhoea or chlamydia. If only they knew how to make better sexual choices! Imagine the heartbreak they would feel if these completely avoidable illnesses made them infertile later on. Imagine not being able to be a mother and knowing that your own poor decisions caused that…

My mission is to educate women on the contraceptive choices available to them and to help end abortions and unplanned pregnancies. I also love to empower people to make better, more informed decisions about their sexual well-being, showing them, for example, how they can prevent sexually transmitted infections.

One way of doing this is to blog on issues that affect women like Rape, Domestic Violence, contraception, abortion and sexually transmitted infections at http://sexualwellbeingnetwork.org

Feel free to email me at info@sexualwellbeingnetwork.com with any related topics that you may wish to see featured on this blog.

What sexual health challenges do you face? No question is too small or too silly! I am just a Black lady out to help other Black sisters. So bring it on! This is the Black Sisters’ Sexual Health Rendezvous!

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Kuman (pseudonym), 35, holds the zipper of his plain black trouser tenaciously like a ferret, his black furry chest glistering under the neon-bulb light in a knocking shop. Before his romp with a lady of the evening the previous night, Kuman had doused himself with plenty of alcohol and a known oral medication for his poor erection. Hours after the pleasure dance, his Big Uncle refused to go down.

He took a sudden flight to his house and did all he could to calm Big Uncle down but to no avail. He poured ice on it, temporarily camped it in the freezing compartment of his refrigerator but Big Uncle refused to be appeased. When he saw that the dance has moved from shoki to egwu odi n’ala, he boarded a cab and zaa! he was in the waiting room of a private hospital.

A nurse approached him with a smile that would have ordinarily made him want to display his flirting skills but a man whose house is on fire does not go after the rats.

‘Can I see a doctor quickly?’ his voice ragged with a potent mixture of fear and strain. He was still holding down his zipper and this time with his two hands, afraid that Big Uncle would explode in any second.

Standing alone before the doctor, Kuman quickly unzipped his trouser and Big Uncle jumped out, saluting the doctor with several nods.

He was later diagnosed of Priapism.

Priapism is a medical condition resulting when a penis stays erect for a long time, usually for more than four hours without being stimulated sexually. Normally when a man is in the mood or is sexually aroused, blood flows into the penis causing it to stand at rapt attention thus closing off the veins that drains the blood from the penis. When there is less blood flow to the penis, ejaculation follows releasing the pressure on the veins, thereby allowing the blood to flow out. I hope you understand this? Okay, simply say when a man is sexually aroused, blood flows to the penis to keep it erect.  After ejaculation (which results when the blood flow lessens) the blood flows out and the penis returns to its initial flaccid state. I hope you get it now? Now, when the blood does not flow out of the penis for more than four hours it becomes a problem with a huge capital P. This condition is called Priapism. 

- See more at: http://www.publicwellness.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/priapism-it-may-be-your-last-erection_5.html#more

Kuman (pseudonym), 35, holds the zipper of his plain black trouser tenaciously like a ferret, his black furry chest glistering under the neon-bulb light in a knocking shop. Before his romp with a lady of the evening the previous night, Kuman had doused himself with plenty of alcohol and a known oral medication for his poor erection. Hours after the pleasure dance, his Big Uncle refused to go down.

He took a sudden flight to his house and did all he could to calm Big Uncle down but to no avail. He poured ice on it, temporarily camped it in the freezing compartment of his refrigerator but Big Uncle refused to be appeased. When he saw that the dance has moved from shoki to egwu odi n’ala, he boarded a cab and zaa! he was in the waiting room of a private hospital.

A nurse approached him with a smile that would have ordinarily made him want to display his flirting skills but a man whose house is on fire does not go after the rats.

‘Can I see a doctor quickly?’ his voice ragged with a potent mixture of fear and strain. He was still holding down his zipper and this time with his two hands, afraid that Big Uncle would explode in any second.

Standing alone before the doctor, Kuman quickly unzipped his trouser and Big Uncle jumped out, saluting the doctor with several nods.

He was later diagnosed of Priapism.

Priapism is a medical condition resulting when a penis stays erect for a long time, usually for more than four hours without being stimulated sexually. Normally when a man is in the mood or is sexually aroused, blood flows into the penis causing it to stand at rapt attention thus closing off the veins that drains the blood from the penis. When there is less blood flow to the penis, ejaculation follows releasing the pressure on the veins, thereby allowing the blood to flow out. I hope you understand this? Okay, simply say when a man is sexually aroused, blood flows to the penis to keep it erect.  After ejaculation (which results when the blood flow lessens) the blood flows out and the penis returns to its initial flaccid state. I hope you get it now? Now, when the blood does not flow out of the penis for more than four hours it becomes a problem with a huge capital P. This condition is called Priapism. 

- See more at: http://www.publicwellness.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/priapism-it-may-be-your-last-erection_5.html#more

Priapism- it may be your last erection

Kuman (pseudonym), 35, holds the zipper of his plain black trouser tenaciously like a ferret, his black furry chest glistering under the neon-bulb light in a knocking shop. Before his romp with a lady of the evening the previous night, Kuman had doused himself with plenty of alcohol and a known oral medication for his poor erection. Hours after the pleasure dance, his Big Uncle refused to go down.

He took a sudden flight to his house and did all he could to calm Big Uncle down but to no avail. He poured ice on it, temporarily camped it in the freezing compartment of his refrigerator but Big Uncle refused to be appeased. When he saw that the dance has moved from shoki to egwu odi n’ala, he boarded a cab and zaa! he was in the waiting room of a private hospital.

A nurse approached him with a smile that would have ordinarily made him want to display his flirting skills but a man whose house is on fire does not go after the rats.

‘Can I see a doctor quickly?’ his voice ragged with a potent mixture of fear and strain. He was still holding down his zipper and this time with his two hands, afraid that Big Uncle would explode in any second.

Standing alone before the doctor, Kuman quickly unzipped his trouser and Big Uncle jumped out, saluting the doctor with several nods.

He was later diagnosed of Priapism.

Priapism is a medical condition resulting when a penis stays erect for a long time, usually for more than four hours without being stimulated sexually. Normally when a man is in the mood or is sexually aroused, blood flows into the penis causing it to stand at rapt attention thus closing off the veins that drains the blood from the penis. When there is less blood flow to the penis, ejaculation follows releasing the pressure on the veins, thereby allowing the blood to flow out. I hope you understand this? Okay, simply say when a man is sexually aroused, blood flows to the penis to keep it erect.  After ejaculation (which results when the blood flow lessens) the blood flows out and the penis returns to its initial flaccid state. I hope you get it now? Now, when the blood does not flow out of the penis for more than four hours it becomes a problem with a huge capital P. This condition is called Priapism. 

- See more at: http://www.publicwellness.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/priapism-it-may-be-your-last-erection_5.html#more

Priapism- it may be your last erection

Kuman (pseudonym), 35, holds the zipper of his plain black trouser tenaciously like a ferret, his black furry chest glistering under the neon-bulb light in a knocking shop. Before his romp with a lady of the evening the previous night, Kuman had doused himself with plenty of alcohol and a known oral medication for his poor erection. Hours after the pleasure dance, his Big Uncle refused to go down.

He took a sudden flight to his house and did all he could to calm Big Uncle down but to no avail. He poured ice on it, temporarily camped it in the freezing compartment of his refrigerator but Big Uncle refused to be appeased. When he saw that the dance has moved from shoki to egwu odi n’ala, he boarded a cab and zaa! he was in the waiting room of a private hospital.

A nurse approached him with a smile that would have ordinarily made him want to display his flirting skills but a man whose house is on fire does not go after the rats.

‘Can I see a doctor quickly?’ his voice ragged with a potent mixture of fear and strain. He was still holding down his zipper and this time with his two hands, afraid that Big Uncle would explode in any second.

Standing alone before the doctor, Kuman quickly unzipped his trouser and Big Uncle jumped out, saluting the doctor with several nods.

He was later diagnosed of Priapism.

Priapism is a medical condition resulting when a penis stays erect for a long time, usually for more than four hours without being stimulated sexually. Normally when a man is in the mood or is sexually aroused, blood flows into the penis causing it to stand at rapt attention thus closing off the veins that drains the blood from the penis. When there is less blood flow to the penis, ejaculation follows releasing the pressure on the veins, thereby allowing the blood to flow out. I hope you understand this? Okay, simply say when a man is sexually aroused, blood flows to the penis to keep it erect.  After ejaculation (which results when the blood flow lessens) the blood flows out and the penis returns to its initial flaccid state. I hope you get it now? Now, when the blood does not flow out of the penis for more than four hours it becomes a problem with a huge capital P. This condition is called Priapism. 

- See more at: http://www.publicwellness.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/priapism-it-may-be-your-last-erection_5.html#more