Sunday, April 19, 2009

LOUD SILENCE

What do kitchen parties

have to do with sex?



Upendo Hartsuiker

I was seventeen years old when I first attended a kitchen party ceremony, mostly in urban areas, where a bride-to-be is expected to be endowed with knowledge, related to how she should treat her husband after marriage. It happened that a friend of mine was getting married at a tender age (She was sixteen years old), and she had asked me to be her maid of honour! 

Let me confess that I did not know much about what I was expected to do as a maid of honour. I stood next to the bride-to-be and nod knowingly at what was being said. 

I remember feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable throughout the ceremony, as the main woman speaker during the function kept on demonstrating how a woman should look sexy before a man…Read full story>>>>>

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