jelly later, the gender gap in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut, it has been waiting for years to get her turn. a private initiative is pushing to make it happen. me personally is just a dream i've always had. i've always wanted to see the us for destiny for space starts more jason on d. w. hello and welcome to the 77 percent. my name is edith kimani and i'm coming to you from the heart of ne ruby in the special edition of the 77 percent. we're going to talk about love relationships. and of course, hot break will find out what attracts people to each other,

to ignite that special spark. ah, we'll hear how back. so like money and power planes relationship. ah. and we'll meet the designer who wants people to express themselves. no matter of their sexual orientation. ah, so we know that money can complicate things in a partnership like when love or sex. i used as an exchange for money. we're talking here of course about sponsors, black says, or sugar mommies and daddies. so we want to stick a closer look at the blessed a blessed the culture, specifically in south africa. and some young women opened up to us about the experience i shot wanting though this next report discusses dependency relationships and sexual violence. ah, ah, when she started his studies 23 year old and a plunder and tumble from widow,

was struck by the expensive looks clothing and excess of shopping. her fellow classmates enjoyed her friends was so cold. lake weeds, we depend on rich men to maintain that lifestyle. they introduced her to her own bless, of a wealthy married man who was more than 20 years. her senior hughes, c. m, is clean with the gift. it isn't worth shooting the re coffee, know her. but the gifts did not come for free and tumbled soon discovered that she'd need to perform sexual faded. this is when she started having 2nd thought. doing really wanted. it kind of just felt like i was be invited into sorry, but type of prosecution. but then now i have to make do with whatever just come by

just because of the, the fact that she wants this life that you want you want last life lavish, luxurious a soft or the struggle to survive in a society where money and how a concentrated in the hands of miss tumble is not allied. some man even believe money gives him the right to control a woman's freedom. 46 road modular villa cause he has 3 mistresses. he does not allow them to work, leave the house without his permission or earn his cellphone woman easily. 1010. so we need to control them. they need to be in your finger tips. as we like food for me, i would go into school so they can have money. i can have power, i can control them that his behavior might entirely undermine his girlfriend's. right to self determination seems

a little concerned to be causey. both he and his friend claimed to pay their girlfriends around 400 years each. for cbo mac longo, this is pure business. i mean that's the whole point. so now what we, what we do is we take care of women. then they, what do we get him to turn his love? that's all. that's all. nothing else. so you mean sex move? yes, sex has been taken care of to someone making you feel special. in a recent south african health survey, one in 10 young women reported to have had transaction, and this is a massive problem. it says also jackie. pamela say we meet the author in an up market hotel in johannesburg. but what say is well known for her book, which spills the beans on the blessing and plessy culture but more, say, experienced the fluid borders between transactional sets and human trafficking. one

of you went over to help you with this hotel and you'd be a you with, i remember all that and with on as a young girl, she ran away from a violent time and became involved with a very wealthy man, a few months into their relationship he took her on a private yacht with politicians, business men and their mistresses, being trapped in the middle of the ocean. she had no choice but to enjoy being raped multiple times. ready you can be changed it like this in a heartbeat. if the minister wants to buy you bill by you, regardless of who you dating in the group. so even if you're dating the wa, yes man in the group. he can trade you off of business deal because the ministers after 4 traumatizing years, a mont saint managed to escape the grasps of her lesser. she fled abroad. wishing,

wrote a book about her experiences. a warning that the world of glamour that we see on our phones and internet platforms is sometimes far from the actual truth social media. it gives us an invasion of to fix and comfort and luxury expected. and people hopeful that lucius and you don't even know that just to get ahead there. got this drink in front of us. what are the maybe other things do you have to do? just for that one? it me back in. so wet ovula cause he meets his girlfriend will be late tomorrow. he wants to buy her and you hand bag, which is nice. but zima is not early enough for the luxuries she has a baby and needs the money to buy basic necessities. ready to pay rent and she's well aware of the dependency she finds herself in bed as bianco. we have to to sleep it all the guys and you turned it there for you all you okay with

everything. just because of minute. because i round here. chances of jobs you don't, we are the percentages of getting a job right on anything and everything to good. what do you, how you invested in time in place with a post curve, it economy in shutters and then the unemployment rate of over 60 percent. the outlook for these young women is bleak, being blessed becomes a basic way of survival and the female body an object that can be bought and bartered. but of course, not all relationships are this complicated and well money often plays a role. it's often about simpler things like who gets to pay for the bill and the dates. so we wanted to know what your experiences were and for this we went to millennium park in a border i spoke to abuse when it comes to going out o d awesome guys, the das changed. get

a picture of like before. did food too much. oh, you do, i'm not. well, yeah, we are not able to provide for big. i didn't have been times where you want to have more than to pick the most expensive piece in the world to go to. and then by time you can in like this window of reasoning, i like, how much is the deal again? i mean, you're calculating your, you know, your trip back home because i can afford to knew that she took, i went out to someone and i couldn't finish the food anywhere like you must finishing carol left. all right. like almost finish. you really nice one because in red flag like how will you tell me, i must finish people because new swain's more than buying and i have no idea how i would behave if somebody forced me to finish my food because they were paying for the bill. but you know what dating aside, we also wanted to find out what attracts people to each other and what makes

relationships, what? so here's what you said. one thing that draws me so when you have a new dot to present, likes with respect to me. i saw i saw the issue, brianna don't log in basically just really a job. he's personally i guess working with chris love of my life. she was always there for me just of what they need the time. like i've never had such support ever in my life. he's honest a nice to me. and when about his role, he do apologize. that the most amazing part of it. interesting to me, she was always with his job. i mean, oh, don't dish or about me. you're about me this year, you're about money run away. and when he asked me that was like, i like you know that why didn't you like me? and if maybe we can do this issue with now are a 1000000 different ways to love and who you choose to love should really only be

a matter for you and your partner. but in life this is, it's always the case, your family friend society and they've been national laws. can you tell me who you can and can't have an intimate relationship with, as well as who you can identify as i'm talking about the l g b, you plot community would still faces discrimination as well as defamation, and attacked by both states and society all around africa. so let's start off by unpacking gender identity and sexual orientation and what the letter stand for. we ask our relationship experts to break it down for the hello there and welcome to the spread of faith space where we get to discuss everything, facts and relationship. today we have a question on gender and sexual diversity. the question reads, hey kev, as a person trying to be a better l g b t q plus ally. i'm finding it hard to understand all the new language around

agenda, sexuality and sex. is there a way you can simplify it for me? so i can better understand how to conduct myself in spaces where i meet diverse group. i'd really appreciate it. thanks. let's start by creating 3 boxes, biological or assigned sex, gender, and sexual orientation. each of these boxes has many sub sections, but will focus on the most important points. the 1st box, biological sex, is what the doctor use is to identify you at birth based on your genet alia, most of the time. it's either male or female, but there are also cases where one is born with both male and female genitalia, that person is known as, intersects the 2nd box. if gender jenda is a social construct. if what society throw that you to place you in a binary box of either male or female, for example, all and the color pink are said to belong to only girl,

whereas trucks and the color blue are set to belong to only boys. but not everybody conforms to this gender. binary gender identity comes from your in a sense of self and may not aligned with the fact that you were assigned at birth. you could be male, female, both neither or some other agenda. and this could mean, for example, that you're not comfortable with a pronouns, he or she and would rather be referred to as they are them. for example, the 3rd box is sexual orientation. this has to do with attraction that you have to a person based on their gender, which could be romantic, emotional, or physical men. and women strictly attracted to the opposite agenda and known as heterosexual. if you're attracted to someone of the same gender, you could be homosexual. if you're attracted to someone regardless of their sex or gender identity, you could be pansexual. keep in mind that this really is just the tip of the

iceberg. this so much more to learn about the l g b p, q plus community. i hope this has been helpful and i do urge you to keep doing your research online. well informed ally like you are very important. that's it for me, kaz till next time. good bye. thank you kaz. and if you're interested in learning more about sexual minority or just indicating yourself about sex on the body in general, you can have to integrate page where we have a series of kaz on just that. now hearing kenya between 2 people of the same gender, it feel punishable by law. this law has been in place since 930 and results in sexual minority being harassed and left with virtually no protection from police of the state. in general, 2023, a young tenant question designed an l. g. b. you activist edwin. she lobo was killed. walking white bread v a. the unity with some people who are still willing

to speak up can yes l g b t q. community is an alert. in january 2023, edwin to lowball, a student fashioned designer and gay rights activist was killed in the canyon town of el dorit. his tragic death sent shock waves through the community makeup artist denison gary felt the impact. ah, when, when the new fact kim, you know, like i was not sure what happened and been and i was like, i really hope it's not about how he didn't save himself as of late. there's been a lot of hit. i've been receiving a lot of hits and a lot of comparison to anyone. everyone is telling me, you know, if you don't take care, you will end up like edwin. dennis was always aware that his sexual orientation was not accepted by society. but the online debate about edwin's death has degenerated into an anti l g b t q plus hate campaign. right now are they at martinez kane?

that tends to be by not sure of gas safety of their actually t of their sexual orientation. i'm going to walk lou. even simply leaving the house can be a problem. they're not safe to go outside. you're not assured that you'd be safe unless you have the unity but their environment and they and the situation right now will be rendered boil in 10th. and it will take some time before we get back to our home. but if the government criminal life is have a web minority group, i feel like that i will feel protected. homosexuality is still at a bu and canyon society. but in the light of edwin's death, the l g, b, t, q plus community and the allies are once again calling for acceptance. and the criminalization. there's a lot of homophobia. there's

a lot of hate threats people who, who's only who, who you are hating because they exist. you know, they exist. that's it. i live and living. i'm gay, so play most fuss of africa. the laws are very similar to those here in kenya, in a jury, for example, one can get up to 14 years in prison, mental being gay, and in some parts of the country which are ruled by fleming sharia law. punishment even worse. nevertheless, there are few brave people with sending up for themselves. we meet one of them, the legal space, fashion designer, daniel kuhn k who is calling for more respect and acceptance. in conservative nigeria, same sex relationships who it's a wholesale wild for the l. g. b to q class community. but like ocean teenager daniel concord has an idea to make it a little friendlier with you inclusive freshman brand concord apparel

ah, very much enthusiastic about so, so this is one of the prison. i think personally i was going to, we're going to so i had one disrespect to discrimination on 3 percent. so growing up, i always been like will lead and all of that. so i got to read more and i found out about what to do. i've always been a 1st time i have to pick up on myself. despite the odd lucas brand has been welcomed, especially in the l g. b t q plus community. bold inscriptions like fem isn't weakness. gender is fluid and weird can be seen happening, hung out around lego. i think it's quite an innovative and intuitive brand. i've always had time finding stuff fit my

agenda, expression. like with the 5th run. it always it go get. i always find what i want. because listen one, my bronze out and it was going to be like, my good. how do you mean 10 days students stuff and i'm like, yes. then there's a welcome to anybody kind of like, i mean the be the way it person is in its own body or the own body. and the thought they need, like which something sees operating very, very bold come from. so and to speech thinking, just cause unique kind of society where we leaving it always fun. things like this . done, you know, runs an online store from his home. he reveals designs on his instagram page. clients can also request designs. daniel then gets his graphic artist to realize the work before supervising the feeling and branding. experiencing hostility is part of the job efficiency by defensive i. some people just come into my business

page and just be like what's up, what are you doing? this is devil is this against god feel and what and what's not on whatsoever. didn't people don't understand is my brand is north of for the, for just the particular person for my brand, if for every body and for his friends and customers wearing his clothes in steals a sense of pride. and i'm going with my discretion to ask why you are in something like this. what does this mean? those who know right? but then oh, nothing is coming from ignore on. so most of the time i see the and i kid demo. what things mean people find the scripts on a case, but i really do not care. this is me and i little bit a man with a message. and while people like daniel fighting from one step to the society, many people have their own relationship battle to fight big or small. like who land

get should there are, can nigerian couple living right? you know, ruby. and while they knew they wanted to be together, their families and friends, well, they took a bit of convincing. nairobi is east africa, melton port, attracting residents from across the continent and beyond. but i, king and capitals accept terms of diversity, does not always extend to matters of the heart at the beginning, it was very difficult when my wife go to places and introduce oh amazon and job was whoa, whoa, used to be very which stereotype by dancing oh, you've come to care to steal our woman from aust. cooler and get you a cross cultural relationship may be unusual, but like many young people to love, hot familiar begins. we've met one or 2 i think. yeah, austrian to, to years. how is this fresh from school?

he said, talk to me and you know how we say deity and talking and yeah, i liked his wife. he liked by vibe. he actually up front. he told me you're going to be the mother of my kids for neighbors, friends, and family, the new capos, but in love, connection was difficult to accept. i was now telling my friends in these that dating, you know, you know, telling a lot of people and then you know, come off and her. yeah. i met this guy, we've been seeing each other and i'm not his name, j a y i sure they j would you know about him? how do you know his back or he'll leave you today? comments like these will fall on deaf ears, yet. whose family have long since accepted west african in law as a member of the family. but i wasn't always the case when he told me that i didn't know to believe it. i see wart a could not believe it.

i said, i don't want to eat anything about it. i want you to see me when he told me that jerry and i was like, what is that my dad doing? can i know africa go to america or europe? so that was for me, mind blowing. another thing that her head was, he's muslim. ok, and most he says christian. so we were like, my sister is going to, because of i know my sister really loving family. have to become mostly. eventually, the couple chose to put aside the may 5th dollars behind them, the path for ahead toward a shed life that blend the best of that different backgrounds include in, in the kitchen at the beginning, used to cook a lot for some new en route. like i'm visiting at please use to really, really like cooking, you know, i guess the day that time he was trying to lose me like them for you. my

wife. he taught me how to make this to the law of the if i drive over them, i've come to enjoy most of the guarantee she's from a guy leave room maki more from below, from from motto, ever, dean. what of are you going from that is your background, your cultural, your age? what of your type? is it possible? he lets me be me and i let him be here is walk for me perfectly. and really, really just happy in when any of the end of our show. but we have one more issue to talk about that hot break because like, you know, not that's how some relationship and lead me most. i mean, i can't be alone in this showing you. you must have some experiences of your own. so let's hear them. well, it may not be shown to be time. i may have walked out and i'm looking have brooklyn

before. i think i'm the one actually. i'm, i'm interested in a given me a good deal with us today. so you just a budgeting this we don't see a lot the this particular the i will never forget because i set it up which i wait a while for like a long shot. i'm not sure i gotta do that. i believe i will never forget. i get all my trust a ball. just take it for granted. and then it's off my head because yes, i'm a footballer. like if i go to the beach, i'll perform well, like my guys

a black. okay. was wrong with to like, why you why, you know, focus to be it was wrong or deep dive it out or? yeah, fine to me. i feel i'm, i'm doing my best. i didn't know. i wasn't doing the right thing on the peach, i get my bride, end of the i ended up losing sight. i didn't get a lot of bike and return like my trust was taking for granted. so i just have to like exclude myself the relationship to them. but out by the 1st one you says, then i swore not to have any relationship, a 100 percent. again, i have to be extremely careful in order for me not to like pull a big in for the 2nd 5 minute, but i will highlight it and then bring this to the end of the show this week. if you have story to share with us, connect with us on social media, you can also write to us. so he will is 7 to 7 the d w dot com and subscribe to our youtube channel. we have you now with, you know, the do by now a big so thanks for watching. mm.

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