Females becoming endangered species

Anyone with an iota of red blood cells flowing in his veins would be shocked and sickened by the recent cruel case of infanticide in Katsina town. A married adult male raped a seven-month old baby to death!

This incident easily falls into the level of “most despicable” on an assumed scale of sexual violence perpetuated against minors in Northern Nigeria, from the sodomisation of young boys to the ever-present certainty of molestation of young girls generally below the age of 10.

The adult male involved in this infanticide claimed he had a case of super-charged libido and regrettably, a seven-month old baby was his avenue for release.

If a super-charged libido was the reason for this infanticide, then I should say with certainty that the Katsina I knew during my NYSC days of 1996 would not have experienced this heinous crime because, back then, sex was happily sold on the fringes of town outside the gated Kofars (Kofar Guga, Kofar Sauri, Kofar Yandaka, etc).

Amazingly, this murderer is building a strong case for himself by hiding under the excuse of uncontrollable libido.

Really, science tells us that wanton sexual desires are a function of the pituitary gland in the frontal sector of our head and the bigger this gland, the more the sexual drive of its possessor. The male specie is being considered in this context.  Furthermore, science notes a strong correlation between sexual act and violence in the male specie.

This means that, in the primordial recess of the essence of the male specie, sexual satisfaction or fulfilment is tied to the realisation of the magnitude of pain that has been inflicted on the female specie during intercourse.

This is a fact in the animal kingdom and it is the pleasure that comes from inflicting pains during intercourse that drives sexual offenders to seek vulnerable victims like babies, little boys, little girls, and prepubescent girls.

However, there is an institution (or industry) that exists to solely cater to this animal desire of the higher male animal (that is, the human man) and that institution is commercial sex where the sellers of sex are professional enough to pander to the desires of the higher libido clients by pretending to be under intense pains for the duration of the sexual act.

The Sharia fire that raged across some Northern Nigerian states in the late 1990s and early 2000s ensured that the avenues for letting off steam by sexually-charged men were totally blocked and cut off and the results ever since do not make worthy news in the least bit.

Sunday  Jonah

Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State