The Sex Doll Syndrome Shows How Senseless We Might Have Become, By Moroti Olatujoye

Nigerian Twitter has gone crazy after news and pictures of sex dolls broke recently. Men of course are excited about it and are giving a million and one reasons why they will purchase what most of them term as the best gift for valentine’s day, women are furious that men even feel excited about this doll in the first place. In fact, women feel betrayed that men will choose this over them.

Firstly, I must acknowledge how even as a woman, these dolls look absolutely sexy to me, I mean the “physical perfection” is amazing (keep calm, it’s not what you think), secondly I must also pray sincerely for the brains behind this as I hope these dolls reduce rape crimes all over the world especially now that sexual abuse and assault seems to be the “In Thing”.

Generally, phallic objects and topics relating to sex has always been a thing of amusement or should I say catches more attention than any other thing in human history, it is pathetic the height of interest the sex dolls have sparked in our youths especially here in Nigeria.

Few weeks ago, January 1st to be precise, over 60 people was killed by gunmen in Benue state and the world mentioned it for only half the day. There were no hash tags, no trends to frustrate the government to look into the matter like we did with #operationendsars, nothing from our social media addicts that could help. Do I even need to talk about the recent video of the Chibok girls and how these so called Boko Haram members have brainwashed these girls to believe that they had no business coming back to the life they had, but to sit with them as they kill thousands of innocent people and have babies for these criminal?

Are we really the future if our brains are so shallow and easily swayed? I for one loved the SARS drama and how we had all spoken up to these bullies who are paid to protect us, but should I also drop the tiny fact that most of us “lowkey” know why every youth was on and on about the movement, (lips sealed for another day).

There are sex dolls and we should appreciate that this will make the world perhaps a safer place for us, as rapist have no excuse anymore, but shouldn’t we focus on bigger problems together? These herdsmen are everywhere, the Badoo cult killings, the kidnappings, the Biafra drama, the never ending battle between patience Jonathan and EFCC, the fact that DSS officials arrest journalists who write their opinions and publish, and oppress Pastors who speak their minds to the congregation, the bullet proof cars that can feed people at the IDP camps that our leaders use, and so much more.

While we go crazy about a sex doll that cannot come visit you when SARS arrests you for breathing, our country is faced with problems bigger than even our leaders, problems we have to cry to the world to help us with.

As the youth who are the future of this great country, we have to wake up, intelligently wake up and use this social media to turn things around?