Nkɔmmɔdɛ - Sex-related talk in Akan (Twi)-gctid59309

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Akan Sex and sexuality vocab/terminology/united snakesge articles.
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[Agbede]

Ɛno yɛ ammɔdin kasa anaa?

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Saa nsɛm yi, yɛntaa nka no wɔ abɔnten. Ɛyɛ kɛtɛsosɛm anaa mpasosɛm a ɛwɔ okunu ne ne yere ntam. Baako no, wokan a, n'asɛm no te sɛ anwonsɛm "Mɛfira wo te sɛ ntoma". Agya e!
Mmarima deɛ, yɛhyia a, ɛtɔ da bi a yɛkasa fa nneɛma bi ho nanso ɛntaa nyɛ nkyerɛkyerɛmu a emu dɔ saa. Mmaa deɛ, menim sɛ wɔhyia a, wɔkasa fa mmarima ho.

[AfuaOsei04]

Helpful

[Jesuuuuua]

I might be able to catch people out now

[Maameafrique]

wow this is interesting.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Glad you found it interesting. A different side of language learning...no pun intended...

[pridesparanoia]

:flirt:

[kweiquartey]

Wow. Ahuhuro de me! I had no idea there was such steamy language in Twi! Can you imagine an erotic novel in Twi? I gotta work on this. "Fifty Shades" will seem like nothing.

[kweiquartey]

However I suspect that in real life, few Ghanaian men would really use or actually act out the  kind of sexual talk referred to in the essays.  For example, in the "What I want your words to do do me " piece, mention was made of oral-anal activity. I would have to hear or see this in Ghana to believe it, which would make me some kind of voyeur, I suppose, but you get my point. It's just not Ghanaian. I think the idea would be abhorrent to most.

Ghana is interesting. Sexuality is there but sort of not there. Like other conservative societies, it's tied up with moral and behavioral codes that no doubt have strong social and ancestral bases. I also find it intriguing that juxtaposed against the mythology around Kmtyw male potency, created to a large degree in the West , Kmtyw women have made it known that their male counterparts don't spend much time, if any, on foreplay. In other words, the sexual act can be quite perfunctory and certainly unsatisfying to the woman. Their man may have potency, but it's going to come (sorry) and go pretty quick.

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kweiquartey;103138 wrote: Wow. Ahuhuro de me! I had no idea there was such steamy language in Twi! Can you imagine an erotic novel in Twi? I gotta work on this. "Fifty Shades" will seem like nothing.

Ɛyɛ hye ampa. Wobɛtwerɔ bi wɔ Akan kasa mu anaa?

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kweiquartey;103140 wrote: However I suspect that in real life, few Ghanaian men would really use or actually act out the  kind of sexual talk referred to in the essays.  For example, in the "What I want your words to do do me " piece, mention was made of oral-anal activity. I would have to hear or see this in Ghana to believe it, which would make me some kind of voyeur, I suppose, but you get my point. It's just not Ghanaian. I think the idea would be abhorrent to most.

Ghana is interesting. Sexuality is there but sort of not there. Like other conservative societies, it's tied up with moral and behavioral codes that no doubt have strong social and ancestral bases. I also find it intriguing that juxtaposed against the mythology around Kmtyw male potency, created to a large degree in the West , Kmtyw women have made it known that their male counterparts don't spend much time, if any, on foreplay. In other words, the sexual act can be quite reading and certainly unsatisfying to the woman. Their man may have potency, but it's going to come (sorry) and go pretty quick.

I agree that the anal piece seems quite un-Ghanaian. The whole cultural piece about not using the left hand is to avoid contact with the anus and what comes out of it. I remember reading something about when pan latrines were the new british innovation, those 'soil carriers' were not allowed to eat with their families for months. How to go from there to anal sex perhaps tells us the futility of looking at modern day Ghanaians as a means of getting a view into the cultural practices of the remote and not-so-remote past.

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