Those who married sexually athletic women died early

The sexual behaviour of a woman with ung’oti is di­ erent. She is known to be sexually insatiable, particularly when the ung’oti is aroused to the maximum. Reports from men who have sex with such women tell of how prominently they can feel the erect ‘horn’ down there.

In Kikamba language the ung’oti has a proverbial nickname: waa-wa-ndiu, which means ‘hawk’s claw.’

It is commonly claimed that the marriage of women with ung’oti does not last long. This is because their husbands allegedly die young as a result of one disaster or another. It is why in traditional setting, when a young man was looking for a wife his family would demand to know about the history of the girl’s family line.

If the family suspected that the woman could be ‘armed’ with ung’oti, the marriage would never take place. A family that knew their daughter had ung’oti would do anything to keep it a secret, so as not to jeopardise their daughter’s prospect of getting married. Even the father of the daughter could be unaware of the daughter’s condition, because such matters were highly guarded secrets by women.