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Kagure Mugo

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Kagure Mugo

Kagure Mugo is the intoxicatingly scary gatekeeper of HOLAAfrica, an online pan-African queer womanist community dealing with sexuality and all things woman. She is also a writer and freelance journalist who tackles sex, politics and other less interesting topics. During weekends she is a wine bar philosopher and polymath for no pay.

(John McCann/ M&G)

Terms of social engagement

Someone’s watching you. Sometimes they’re invisible, other times not. What does their behaviour mean?

(John McCann)

Find your P-spot, bro

There’s nothing unmasculine about a woman pleasuring a man in his anus

Although anyone can fall victim to revenge porn (there have been cases of a dick pic or two roaming the Twitter streets), the overwhelming majority of victims are women.

Online nude, offline problem

Send the pic, but take measures to prevent more exposure than you wanted

The constant need to see violence as happening purely across gender lines means there is an underdeveloped understanding of how it manifests within the LGBTQ spaces (John McCann)

Myths shroud queer abuse

The idea that violence is heterosexually defined silences same-sex victims

Certain sections of the penal code impose a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment for consensual same-sex relations. (John McCann/M&G)

Ways to be a super queer ally

But in trying to be supportive, allies sometimes get it all wrong

Porn that shows men and women as sexual collaborators rather than men as conquerors could do a great deal to change people’s perceptions about themselves and their sex lives (John McCann/M&G)

Feminist porn answers a need

Women viewers are increasing and that could help to usher in the sex revolution we are hankering after

Take it off: Women enjoy a raunchy evening with male strippers but many of those at the Magic Mike SA show dressed up in a way that suggests they need an excuse to have a girls’ night out.

Women, it’s okay to lust like men

Half-naked, oiled-up, gyrating male strippers. We want this but think we can’t be seen to do so

The reasons for the dozens of times I moaned and writhed in exaggerated ecstasy differed according to the partner

Claiming your climax is hard

And the Oscar for best orgasm depicted in a biopic goes to … Kagure Mugo

‘ … my palate became more discerning and eventually I could tell the difference between a good merlot and that swill that came out of a box

Safely embrace  ‘hoe is life’

Queer people had only the heterosexual space for early lessons in sexual identity

Pearl Bhengu assured grant beneficiaries that the current Sassa card will remain working until September 30.

A silence that begins at home

We need to air our own complicity in muting the voices of sexual assault victims

Kink can be filled with consent and this I learnt from black queer women

Great kinky sex is just three magic words away: Conversation, consideration, consent

The kink world is one filled with safe words, sexual contracts and conscious conversations

Often people shy away from the sex conversation to spare feelings, not wanting to cause trouble

Pillow talk the key to good sex

Most important is to remember that sex is a conversation and discussion is key

Third wheel: You need self-awareness and good communication skills when you bring another person into a relationship.

The paradoxes of polyamory

Polygamy is for men seeking mini empires. Polyamory requires talk and thoughtfulness

A Soweto youth holds a free condom he received at a HIV/Aids awareness event.

Skin to skin: Stealthing is rape

Slipping a condom off during sex without partner’s consent is disrespectful and dangerous

Let’s talk about it: Fifty Shades of Grey opened up the conversation on kink

Sexual obesity in the tech age

Tinder is to sex what microwaves are to food prep: quick and easy, with a touch of danger

Mandla Makupula

​That awkward but vital sex chat with your kids

Parents and their offspring find it hard to talk openly about sex, but they should.

Mashadi Makwana of the Nedbank Foundation handing over a mobile library to a teacher and two pupils from Rammopodu Primary School.

Show full spectrum of LGBTI rainbow

Greater efforts need to be made to reflect all experiences of the LGBTI community.

Two of the penguins involved in the violent showdown.

Cheating Mrs Penguin is no different to women who cheat

The internet treated it like the next Brangelina breakup.

“Behind the numbers are real feelings

The intricacies of sex without a penis tend to baffle a great number of people

There is much more to enjoying fulfilling and safe sex than just Pornhub mechanics.

The acquittal of Zuma did not just endanger Khwezi’s life, but ours as well

The condonation of rape at the highest level of government brings all women’s lives under attack.