This last week, Nigerian media-sphere was thrown into a frenzy over the ‘leaked sextape’ of a certain beauty queen. As usual, as Nigerians are wont to do, they (loudly) criticised the ‘barbaric lesbian act’ and were ‘disgusted’ by it. The individual involved also claimed that it was in fact not her but a skillful photoshop job done ‘by hoodlums attempting to tarnish her image’.
Well, folks that know this X-list celebrity have said that not only was that her but the other lady involved is a known associate and friend named Ada. Chidinma Okeke‘s denial is as flimsy as the tattered hairnet she wore in the video. That’s her. And that’s Ada.
If she had any sense, she could have owned up to it and blamed it on ‘hackers’ that stole a ‘personal item’ from her. That might be more plausible than this laughable claim that are lawyers are looking into the matter.
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She’s not the first person to record a sexual act and she certainly is not the first person to engage in a sexual act. The backlash she has received from the entire populace reeks of hypocrisy. Would it have offended us less if she were having sex with a man – since the law of the land prohibits homosexuality and we’re angry because she’s doing ‘it’ with a woman? Would we have been less judgmental if she wasn’t a known face as it were? Would we have minded if they didn’t make a video of them laying in the 69 position?
In the grand scheme of things, her five-minute masturbating, licking and kissing session with another adult woman is unimportant. Personally, the only disgusting thing to this writer is the dingy room in which a ‘beauty queen’ was getting her freak on.
However, Nigerians are obsessed with sex. We like to have it and we like to watch it. And it’s fine really, as long as it’s within the confines of consent and legality (i.e rape and underage sex). As Subomi Plumptre, a business consultant and brand strategist said in her extensive research on sex and the Nigerian, we consume more porn content than the United States. So it is understandable when people want to imitate their favourite porn stars and learn new sexual positions. After all, don’t they say variety is the spice of life?
Their are a few porn websites that feature made-in-Nigeria porn. There are people who organise sex parties. So it is quite understandable when people feel like experimenting and they record themselves getting at it. It might not be everybody’s cup of tea but as long as the participants are not harming anyone, it really is nobody’s business.
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Still we live in a country where our lawmakers would legalize child marriage and proscribe gay marriage. We live in a country where prostitution is illegal but government officials allegedly have hookers on the roster. We live in a country of paradoxes where Big Brother Africa was banned but a winner was once the guest of a sitting governor.
So Chidinma’s denial is understandable even if it is ill-conceived. But the outrage is hypocritical, bordering on sanctimonious bullshit. We could argue the morality of the accessory used – the cucumber – and we could debate the lesbian nature of it, but sex is a perfectly normal human phenomenon. That people engage in it should not be shocking.
It’s high time we learnt how to be concerned about things that are more important. Like safe sex for example…
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