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Many strange happenings are taking place in relationships, some of them stranger than fiction. It becomes worse when such weird acts rear their head in a marriage set-up.
In our previous edition we carried an article in which a man from Gokwe slept with a prostitute in the presence of his wife. It gets even worse. He actually forced his wife to watch the act and take notes and learn different sex positions that he seemed to have been impressed with.
The very act of leaving one’s wife to sleep with another woman is bad enough, without having to force the poor woman to endure such humiliation and mental torture in her own home.
While many people will not readily admit, quite a number are struggling with one form of addiction or another, and they need help. Unfortunately, most of these people may not even want to admit or realise that their addictions have completely impaired their judgment and destroyed many areas of their lives.
It could be addiction to alcohol that then gives some people the courage to act out their wildest fantasies, or they could be addicted to entertaining prostitutes and using alcohol as cover for their main addiction. The man (32) who brought in a prostitute had the cheek to ask his wife to prepare a meal for “their visitor” after the sexual act. Judging from his age, one could assume maybe pornography could have corrupted his mind, if not his upbringing. However, the same would not apply in the case of a 56-year-old who has not had sex with his wife for 10 years but always masturbates next to his wife and gets angry when the wife demands her conjugal rights.
Some of the issues really verge on the spiritual and it is a pity that the law can only punish individuals for certain behaviour without necessarily investigating the root cause of such warped behaviour.
Masturbation addiction is a problem that afflicts many people, leading many of them into losing interest in the opposite sex.
We have seen our modern courts accommodate counselling as part of options available to especially couples in disputes. It is our hope that our traditional courts also get such expert services so that some people who may be lampooned by the community that may not understand their addictions, could get help and overcome their afflictions so that they lead normal lives.
Elsewhere in this edition, we have the story of a man from Bulawayo that pimps out his wife for beer. He does not seem to have problems with having his wife working as a prostitute so that she raises money for their drinking and family upkeep.
The abnormal is being normalised, and we wonder what kind of values the offspring of such parents would have.
Online Reporter