Hooked on toys: Are Kenyan men sleeping on the job?

On June 15, journalist, author and social commentator Silas Nyanchawani raised a storm on social media:
“Pornography and masturbation used to affect men a lot. But now women are hooked on the two vices, it is an epidemic. No one is addressing this. But it sweeping a lot of women. It has the same effects on women as men. Women contribute to nearly half of the monkey genocide,” he wrote.

A week later, he reflected that the problem was not limited to addiction to porn and masturbation.
“An overwhelming majority of women texted to tell me the real ‘epidemic’ is uptake of sexual toys and their normalization in the bedrooms,” Nyanchwani said.
He could be onto something. According to a report by the Kenya Revenue Authority’s Customs Services Department based as the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, sex toys are among top prohibited goods that are intercepted on a daily basis. Notably, most of the toys nabbed are those used by women compared suggesting bedroom affairs are no longer conducted in the ‘missionary’ manner of our forefathers, or that men are, pun fully intended, sleeping on the job.