Can you really blame young girls for going for sponsors?

 Sponsor relationships are complex. Photo: Courtesy

Just when the sponsors thought they were the best thing that ever happened to women, the Ben 10 breezed into town. A Ben 10 (so named after the cartoon character) is like a sugar boy, basically some young man with nothing much to offer save for his heart-stopping action in bed. 

Some women would rather have both, since they serve distinct purposes. But some may find themselves torn in between good and great sex.

A sponsor is often someone’s husband who is bound to leave you for his family when all is said and done. Dating one is a full-time job, complete with deliberate ground rules, like not calling at certain hours. He is the man a woman would save as ‘Uncle Peter’ on her phone.

You cannot be yourself when you are around a sponsor. You cannot rant when you are drunk, since you might just honestly tell him what a pathetic one-minute man he is, and that could relegate you back to the ghetto where he picked you from. 

Since he is not yours per se, your outings are limited to hotels and indoors. You do not go beyond the bedroom. The ‘blesser,’ which is his other title (thanks to him you can wear Louis Vuitton, hallelujah!), has enough emotional baggage from his wife, so you have to keep your mood swings in check when he is around. 

However, he has your back financially. In return, his dry bones get to creak under your caressing care and he gets rejuvenated by your youthful warmth. He can pay your rent in a decent apartment, buy you jewelry, take you to paces you only read about in magazines or use his position to get you a job. There are perks that come with being sponsored, right?

And then we have the Ben 10; young, fly and energetic, but more often than not, struggling. Ben 10s are petty, mundane and need a lot of growing up to do. They’ll kiss and tell and share your steamy chats on WhatsApp groups.  Ben 10s post pictures of food on Insatgram and we get to read about their average lives on social media.

The only reason women keep Ben 10s is purely for sexual pleasure. They are lazy simpletons who spend much of their time doing nothing constructive, hence their energy to go on and on in bed.

Women use them to meet a need that is beyond the sponsor, that of sexual fulfillment and multiple orgasms. While a sponsor expects to be spoilt by a younger woman in the sack, the Ben 10 is the one who does the spoiling and books that ‘flight to cloud nine’ for women. 

So, as sponsors hoard all the young chicks, the old mamas have the option of young and hot-blooded Ben10s. While you are busy canoodling with your lithe young campus girl, your wife could be be ooohing and uuuhing to the rhythmic moves of a Ben 10 in your bed. 

Women too can be smart. When she tells you she will be going for a kamweretho over the weekend, she could be planning a weekend getaway for ‘oil check,’ where sparks will fly as Ben 10 reignites the smoulldering embers you had almost put off.

Ben 10s are the male versions of ‘sponsees,’ only that they are less demanding. He services you and leaves you sore and in return, you give him a few coins to enable him place that football bet. They do not ask for furnished apartments, trips to Dubai, jewellery and stuff. All he wants is probably rent for his one-roomed crib in some average hood.

Women their age do not give them as much as a second look. That is why they also turn to older women, whose husbands are raiding the younger girls they should be dating.

But can you really blame the younger girls for going for sponsors, when the young men are so daft to hold intelligent conversations? They bounce around like they are God’s gifts to women, then ask you silly things like: how many boyfriends have you had in your lifetime? Really?!

However, the rise of sponsors and sponsees is indicative of how twisted and sick our society has become. 

@ScophineO

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