By Femi Kusa
Am I a rape defender? I learned from a young woman at Babcock University last Saturday that this question was raging on Twitter, and that some anti-rape campaigners were gathering signatures to paint me as such.
They were up in arms against the column of June 18, 2020 titled Rape: How to reduce reduce men’s sexual appetite.
How I wish they could pause, re-read the article and re-think! They may discover that they have turned upside down all the arguments I made in that column against rape, the rapist and the Nigerian society which allows breathing ground for rape in the degenerate womanhood, uncensored hip-pop music, film, radio and television.
Many have shown themselves to be governed by the herd (‘follow-follow’ instinct). Their modus operandi is that one person calls up another, fuming, and saying he or she should sign up to fight a person defending rape.
And because they pride themselves as anti-rape campaigners, even when they may be fueling rape through their sexual lifestyles, they jump onto the bandwagon without reading the article in reference and without asking reasonable questions.
I am not Professor Olatunji Dare, Honourable Gbenga Omotosho or Dr. Reuben Abati . These are accomplished Nigerian grandmasters of satire.
Unless you can read between the lines, you can hardly tell where a satirist is heading until you have found yourself at a dead end.
On the way, your blood may erupt and boil in the veins only to cool off when, at that dead end, you discover that you have been co-travelers in-thought, are on the same page and speak the same language.
I do not have that gift of suspense. I would rather open the books all the way. The column, RAPE: HOW TO REDUCE MEN’S SEXUAL APPETITE (posted in www.olufemikusa.com) was cast, not in a different mould.
So, if the signature gatherers ask what, then, what was the column all about, I would reply: it was all about the following…
- It lamented the rising wave of rape cases in Nigeria, which the Police put at about 800 in only four months.
- For the sake of decent language, it fell short of describing the rapist as a lunatic, because many of them are not insane; some are ritualists or mere sex maniacs.It accepted the Police hypothesis that some cases had ritual content.
- I saw a rapist as a spiritually demented person inwardly living in, and inspired or driven by auto-suggestion from the abyss… that is, in the so-called bottomless pit,loveless and cool, far, far away from life.
- It said I have no hiding place for the rapist’. Is this not a thumb down for rape while disclaiming the rapist?
- It said that, while environmental factors may ignite the rape instinct in men, they were endowed by their Creator with Free will to pull away from the brink, even in the last minute, citing the example of the biblical Joseph.Is this not an anti-rape suggestion that men fortify themselves against the rape instinct?
- It said that in addition to the exercise of Free will, there was a golden key for the protection of men and women alike.In this regard, the column expressed how thoughts react with the sexual instinct to cause feelings, and on feelings to cause imagination, and of how imagination requires opportunity to wreak havoc.The essence of this was that a man treading the rape path may free himself from the captivity of his overwrought sexual instinct if he aborts any factor of this equation.He could, for example, curb his feelings by switching his thoughts. He could do likewise if he found himself at the stage of imagination. And, should imagination yield way to opportunity, he should wield his Free will, an intrinsic part or make-up of the human spirit.Did the excerise of Free will not come to the rescue of the Biblical Joseph? Has it not helped many men even in other curcumstances?Will a pro-rape or rape supporter or rapist offer such advice? I suspect the signature gatherers are young women who do not know why they are women in the first place.
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From my understanding, the female specie stands at least half a step higher than the male specie in every sphere of existence in our great universe.
To define woman as a Creation concept, locate her species in all spheres of existence – at points where they stand higher than Man, define her as psychically stronger than Man, far more able to readily and easily link up with a power source in higher regions than he can was an objective of the first article in this series.
These make her the more powerful of the genders, while man deludes himself that women are the weaker sex. Students of Nature will readily appreciate this because there is a marked difference between power and strength.
Power drives upwards, while strength pulls downwards. We must return home to Paradise from where we came, in The Law of the Circle under which everything returns to its starting point or points of origin.
We were sent forth from the Garden of Eden, Paradise, our point of origin, to which we shall return, helped by the womanhood of this creation.
As we journeyed down from Paradise, world after world, we were placed in the hands of the womanhood of each world, like babies in that world, to care and to tend and, then, to pass on to the next world below on still we were placed, on earth arrival, in the wombs of earth women, to also tend and care for and send up home ward some day when we are mature for paradise.
That is the function of POWER. An upward swinging, earthly womanhood, brings down to the earth from above higher values than obtainable in this sphere of existence.
Like the storehouse of Power that she is to him, woman passes or transfers these higher values to man. The duty of man who is more connected with material life is to employ this higher values to make a paradise of our earth.
So, if the earth has not become paradisal, we should ask: has earthly womanhood brought us those higher values? Or, has she, but the male species has failed to anchor and work them?
The obtuse nature of man makes him more competent for the anchorage of the human species on earth to achieve the purpose of earth life.
Woman, in all spheres, is dedicated to caring and tending and not obtuse activities. But the new generation of womanhood in Nigeria does not wish to hear this.
Abandoning her spiritual duty on earth, she willingly offered herself in service to the Dragon. (Please read the first article). She walks today almost half naked in the streets.
Not only the breast and buttocks, but her pubis as well, are available to the tantalised, prying eyes of dirty and ignoble men.
Where he cannot physically touch her, he embalms her with dirty thought forms. These thought forms befog her reason and drag her away from her spiritual duty post, downhill, towards perdition.
It is not for nothing that it is said: ‘’show me the women of a nation, and I will tell you the state of the nation”. In my days as a boy, our mothers protected their pregnancies from prying eyes.
No woman wanted anyone, save perhaps her husband, know she was pregnant, or when the baby was due. Not anymore.
The Yoruba believe the birthing process was challenging and indeed dangerous! This was reflected in the greeting: E ku ewu. Ewu is danger.
The greeting congratulates the new mother or any one closely connected to her for her overcoming of the dangers of the labour room,hale and hearty with her baby or babies in tow!
Birth dangers: what is the picture like today? Caution is thrown to the wind. Young women gather themselves to announce beny showers on social media.
If you are old, and do not know what baby shower means, the picture is this: Their tops are bare except for their bras.
The bottoms are skimpy shorts or skirts, and their abdomens are fully exposed in their full glory! Pregnancies galore!
Are these womanly women and mothers? Is semi-nudity in public, posted on Instagram and Facebook nothing strange to this generation of women? They no longer say they “dress to kill”.
They say they dress to “please themselves”. Men have blood, nerves and hormones which pre-dispose them to naturally sexually respond to a woman’s bare body.
And because some men are too weak to hold themselves against the pressure, they irreverently fall upon women, they respond to sexual stimuli if they are sexually healthy.
Some of them cannot hold themselves when they become sexually overcharged, and, thus, irreverently fall upon women. It is a pity that some of their victims, by our limited understanding, are ” innocent” women.
In that limitation also, the women who ignited the fire of a rape months before the actual event, turn around to parade themselves as anti-rape campaigners.
This campaign is becoming a lucrative trade which creates access to free foreign monies from people of goodwill.
I will not be surprised if it is women such as these who are gathering signatures against simple truths, whatever their social status.
What must have irritated them is that I did not call for the head of the rapist and I suggested that we are mindful of the social causes of rape, chief among which is today’s degenerate woman.
Refined societies do not only punish criminals, they investigate the causes of crime as well. They no longer throw away the baby with the birth water.
In the “offensive” article, I tried to remind us that public execution of armed robbers in the 1970s or thereabout has not stopped armed robberies in Nigeria.
In Lagos at that time, armed robbers numbered only a handful. Today, we speak of “one million boys” on the march and prowl.
In like manner, will castration, death or life imprisonment suggested by some people stop rape? I do not think they will. Ask women who suffer from uterine fibroids.
The fibroids sometimes re-grow after surgery if the original causes are not resolved. Even cancers re-grow when the causes are not destroyed.
It will be necessary for Nigerian sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists to work on this cancer called rape and tell us the seeds which bear the fruits so that we can destroy them.
I hope I have proven to my signature collecting friends that I am not a rape backer. When I say “I have no hiding place for the rapist”, have I not said he is on his own before the law?
When I say he is a demented human spirit, influenced by life in the abyss, have I not said he is not fit to live in the civilised world which abhors rape?
When I say women stand at least half a step above men in the scheme of life in the universe, and that they are the “deciding factors” in this wonderful creation, is that not showing how mighty they are?
If I say women are one of the causes of rape, is the claim not worth looking into? In my thirties, I thought I would never get married because it was difficult to find a woman who did not wish to go naked in public.
The dress vogue then was the brown or coffee lace with holes all over, each of which was large enough to let an adult thumb through.
Underneath this brown dress, women wore white under dress…a bra and a skimpy white underskirt. The abdomen was bare, revealing even the navel.
Tormenting as this was for a serious-minded young man who wanted a faithful wife; the worst was yet to come. It was called Won’yosi (sprinkle salt on it).
The holes were about three or four times larger. That was the foundation of today’s rot. But Mother Nature is always wise and just. In the midst of the rot came a clean profile for a wife.
That is to suggest that, even amidst today’s sexual rot, there would be exceptions, such as the young woman from Babcock University who informed me about the signature gathers, who live by the opinions of other people.
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