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Kunyaza: African secret to female orgasm

Kunyaza is a traditional sexual technique used in central Africa. It’s said to be the secret for women to have incredible wet-sex orgasms.

Dr Nsekuye Bizimana, a Rwandan sex expert working in Germany, has made a study of the Kunyaza technique.

Tapping

The basic principle is simple and has been passed on by word of mouth in central African countries for at least 150 years. The man takes hold of his penis and uses the head to tap the woman’s clitoris, labia, and vaginal opening.

He can move the rhythmic tapping around the vulva in circular or zigzagging movements. The tapping can be varied with rubbing, also using the tip of the penis.

It’s important that there’s plenty of lubrication from the start. Otherwise, the tapping can be too sensitive – a little saliva works wonders.

If, after a while, the man’s wrist gets tired, the woman can get hold of his penis and take over. And women also sometimes help out by holding open their labia to intensify the sensation.

Advanced

In a more advanced version, the man puts his penis inside the woman’s vagina, again takes hold of it, and then moves it from side to side or round and round to stimulate the vagina on the inside. He can vary this with more conventional in-and-out thrusting.

In what Dr Bizimana describes as the ‘classical’ kunyaza position, the man sits down and the woman sits in his lap facing him. But he says ‘less sportive’ people might prefer easier ‘modern’ positions, for example with the woman lying on her back and the man kneeling between her legs.

Squirting

All this penis tapping and wiggling is supposed to have wondrous effects on women. For one thing, it’s said to trigger orgasm after orgasm. But its main reputation is that it produces female ejaculation – it makes women squirt.

The name kunyaza actually means ‘to urinate’. However, it’s not urine that women squirt from their vaginas, but lashings of milky vaginal fluid.

In fact, it is also known simply as ‘wet sex’. And much as they love it,

Rwandan men apparently have a none-too-flattering nickname for women who are prone to lavish squirting: shami ryıikivu, meaning ‘put a bucket under her’.

Rivers

If you’re wondering whether it’s worth a try, sex researcher Sylvia Tamale says one Ugandan sexuality teacher gave it the following glowing review:

‘I myself was truly ignorant about female ejaculation until I met my current lover. If your lover knows what he is doing, you’ll pour rivers and experience multiple orgasms at the same time.’

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