Owning sex toys can put a woman in prison in Zimbabwe. Sitabile Dewa, who is a women's rights activist, calls the law “archaic' and an infringement of her freedom.
FILE - A crate of free vibrator sex toys which were being distributed by the Trojan condom company from their"Pleasure Carts" on August 9, 2012, in New York City. Sitabile Dewa was content with her sex life when she was married, but after her divorce, she found her prospects for erotic pleasure rather bleak., divorced women and single mothers are often cast as undesirable partners for men, and in her frustration Dewa decided she wanted to use sex toys.
Her bold, open references to masturbation and women's sexuality are bound to make many Zimbabweans uncomfortable. A University of Pittsburgh study suggests a link between traumatic events, such a sexual assault, and brain damage. "Sex is not really seen as a thing for women," Mwase said. "Sex is for men to enjoy. For women, it is still framed as essential only for childbearing."Dewa boils it down to this: "These laws would have been repealed a long time ago if the majority of users were men," she said.
But colonialism and the foreign religion it carried with it "stressed the impurity and inherent sin associated with women's bodies," she said. Dewa's campaign for access to sex toys falls into the bigger picture in Zimbabwe of women being "tired of oppression," and is clearly forward-thinking, she said. But there has recently been evidence of a throwback to the past that might also be welcome.
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