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Nairobi women have a weakness for rugby players. Their burliness seems to offer safety.
Add the star wattage of high- profile players in the Kenya Rugby Sevens and you have a veritable mix of sporty masculinity and naïve puppy love from the women “who are suckers for big, strong, tall and confident men,” says local musician Estellah Nyamuta.
“That’s how rugby players are,” she adds.
Psychologist James Mbugua says sportsmen sometimes subdue women for the thrill of the chase.
This is normally from men “in hard games like rugby, football and boxing who pick the sports for their physical nature and the need to feed it,” explains Mbugua.
But when they don’t dominate in sport, “they look for other ways to dominate and hence aggressive domination.
Because they also want to satisfy their sexual urges, they will find a weaker person... and in their mind, they think they are tackling or conquering,” she adds.
Mbugua further explains that most sportsmen “are not romantic, they force their way and it is always their way or no way. They always want to dominate. What makes them worse and encourages them to keep on doing it is their high-flying career.”
Mbugua notes that their local clubs might not know of their misdeeds and even when they do, might cover up for the players “which will only make them worse because they believe they can get away with it.”
