During my second attendance of the Easter Poetry Gala at
Goethe Institute Nairobi sometimes back in April this year, I together with
some serious Poets ( NOT cheap, loquacious spoken word artists who prop to the
stage after smoking bang with Uncensored lines) were privileged to be hosted
for a dinner by Samuel Gichini at Serena Hotel and then the
surrounding inspired this question from one of us “WHERE DID THE ADMIRABLE
PANTY LINES ON OUR WOMEN DISAPPEARED TO? OR, WHY DID OUR WOMEN DECIDE
TO ‘ERASE’ THEIR PANTY LINES? ”.
This generated a two-hour heated debate
about what got into our women’s mind to do away with what they once enjoyed
much especially up to around the year 2012. In fact some of our women who
lacked huge booty used to wear their pants inside out to give a perfect
baseline. This was a way of giving men a gift of sexual imagination or forged
intimate feelings ex gratia.
Mary Oweke, a business lady who has been selling panties in
Kisumu’s Oil Market for the past 10 years also confirms this, that recently,
panties have not been selling the way it used to sell some three or so years
back. According to her, there was a time when ladies were obsessed with bikers
and later thongs, but currently, she is not away from the trending female’s
inner wear in town. She also suspects that our women gave up in wearing panties
or anything of the same, just as they did away with ‘khamisi’. Panties have
become useful only when our women are experiencing their monthly periods where
they strictly use them as equipment of attaching their pads.
The pantyless dressing has been a norm for most women in
Kenya not only in nightclubs but also in offices and every other place. In
fact, a modern Kenyan woman today considers a fellow woman who wears a panty as
the primitive, uninformed and off trend. I once visited a National Bank branch
in Nairobi and by stealing a look under the service table, I realized that the
lady who was attending to me didn’t have a paint but wore a very nice expensive
suit. This was an extreme bullying to any male customer whose eyes could have
led him to where mine led me or a fantasizing imagination for some men. I
wondered why a lady with a skirt decides not to wear a panty and exposes her
‘fundamental’ to the free some public. In Kenya, about 90% of women who wear
trousers and 60% of those who wear skirts are literarily naked. They divorced
the idea of wearing panty long ago. Pantyless women and the ones who wear
ornaments in their waists were at a time considered prostitutes though as time
advances, every woman in Kenya seems to be going that way.
These are the TEN reasons why our women DON’T WEAR PANTIES.
1. There is a conspiracy theory that wearing Panties
decrease the sexual urge in women. These theorists argue that women who wear
panties take quite a long time to start off during the sexual/romancing session
than the ones who don’t.
2. Some women find wearing panties quite pressing and
just want to feel free. They are kind of trying to acquire that ‘freeness’ in
them especially in areas with hot or moderate weather like Mombasa, Kisumu and
North Eastern region.
3. The sweat at the private part region related with
tight pants create an unpleasant odor when mixed with the natural smell
generated at that region and other body parts and this at times is an
embarrassment to them. (women)
4. Some women easily generate sexual (vaginal) fluid at the
slightest touch by a man (especially when hugged by a man, pecked or any
sensitive touch that is sexually arousing). This fluid always gives a very bad
smell when dried on a pant. The production of this fluid is also increased by
the tight contact of the vagina by the pant.
5. Some women are basically prostitutes who see panties
as a factor limiting the effectiveness of their businesses. It is quite
tiresome to pull down your panty every time a customer comes your way so they
have decided to do without it. A prostitute, by this I don’t mean a commercial
sex worker but all the women who are obsessed by the act of having sex , be it
with their husbands, boyfriends or sex clients.
6. Some panties are generally a bother to
them ( especially the Debian type) as they get into the ass hole every now
and then. Sometimes, it gets in while you are in a public place and getting it
out is also an embarrassment as people will notice. To get yourself off this
shame, women prefer wearing nothing in the name of an innerwear.
7. Some women are bullies and want to torture men by
their nakedness. It is surprising that most of these women who wear no pants
don’t hide it. They expose it to men when they have that chance of doing it.
Their main intention is to psychologically induce a feeling of sexual urge in
men and enjoy as they undergo this experience.
8. The cost of pants has discouraged women of
low economic status from buying them. For example, the cheapest female
panty at Mama Mary’s stall at Oile market in Kisumu is Ksh 120 and this
translates to someone’s daily income, hence seeing a panty as a luxury.
9. Vaginal infections have of late been quite rampant
in Kenya. Gynecologists recommend that women with any form of vaginal
infections don’t wear panties during the treatment or recovery period. So,
some women also keep off the inner wears because of health challenges.
10. Some women don’t wear parts because other don’t
wear. They think it is a trending fashion and don’t want to be left out.
They don’t know its meaning and neither have they bothered to ask what it
means.
