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ABSTRACT

Sexuality is like a cult in which everyone belongs and of which everyone denies. There exists a "common sense belief that human beings possess the innate mechanistic urge to reproduce. This phenomenon has been recognized as a natural law. As such, the heterosexual component of human behavior is by and large viewed as being genetic, whereas its homosexuality is primarily the focus of scientific investigations into human sexual orientation. This later development is anti-African with glowing exclusive condemnation and rejection, either legally or morally or both. But is this fact rationalizable? Is it impossible that a reasonable percentage of human population is naturally homosexuals? This paper employs the critical method to attempt a general underlying explanation for human sexuality from an African point of view. The study argues that other forms of human sexual expression may be explained to some extent with the view of the metaphor of "death of the father." Rejection or abstinence from any sexual aberrations such as cyber sex, contraception, lesbianism, homosexuality, beastialism, masturbation etc, is necessary for sustaining the human species and the society. In a traditional African society, sexual relation, in its strict sense, is carried out only for the purpose of procreation. However, there is something inherently problematic about this reality. The population would soon outgrow the economy. This would inevitably lead to poverty of the society. The phenomenon of industrialization would compound this problem as men would go in search of greener pasture in urban areas. Emergency of feminism would also compel women to resist the confines of the kitchen and child rearing to also take their place is banks, industries, markets, classrooms. To resolve these issues once and for all, science would come up with contraception and the idea of birth control. But shall evil be done that good may result?