THREAD: How My Friend Was Turned Into a Sex Addict at Age 9
This is not fiction. This happened to my friend.
My friend Tunji (not his real name) was just 9 years old when his life changed forever. He was living with his mum around St John's Primary School, Oke Aro, Akure. They lived in a face me and face you compound. His mum did shift work, so there were nights she was never around.
There were older ladies living in other rooms in that compound.
Tunji was a lovable boy. These women would send him on errands, give him money, play with him. At first it seemed harmless. But slowly they started pressing their chest on him during play. Being a small boy he did not understand what was happening.
Then they started touching his private parts.
Then they started having sex with him.
His mother thought those big sisters simply loved her son. She never knew what was happening behind closed doors.
By the time Tunji was 12 he was no longer a victim responding to abuse. He was craving it.
By 13 he was sleeping with girls his own age in our circle. I did not know until we were around 15 and he told me himself, at that time they just left the compound to another location far away from there, and that is when we were now close because it was closer to our house. By then he had already influenced almost everyone in our clique. Most of our pair started sleeping with each other at a very tender age because of his influence.
The first time I heard about dildos and sex toys, he was the one that told me during our conversation. I was confused. Where did a boy our age even learn that from?
One thing I always noticed about Tunji was his dressing. When the rest of us were still dressing shabbily he was always clean, neat and conscious of his appearance. That never changed till today.
We went to the same higher institution. He was brilliant, genuinely ahead of all of us mentally during our primary and Jss class but he nose dived from SSS class and struggled to graduate from our institution. He had an extra year. Sex addiction was swallowing his potential whole.
He was disciplined multiple times in church for preying on young girls. Eventually shame stopped him from coming at all.
In 2018 he slept with the older sister of one of our close friends. The woman was around 45 with 4 children, they were sex partner. When it came out it caused serious outrage within our circle. He eventually came to apologise to our friend. When my friend told me about his apology I felt deep pain. Not just anger. Pain.
One day we were talking and he asked me if I knew the real genesis of his problem. I said no. That was when he told me everything about those women in their compound when he was 9.
I felt sorry for him.
He is now married with a child. But between when we became friends in 2005 and when we started drifting 2016, I personally know up to 20 people he slept with.
Some women deliberately condition young boys into sex addiction and those boys carry it for the rest of their lives. We talk about abuse like it only happens one way. This is the side nobody wants to discuss.
Tunji did not choose this life at 9. They chose it for him.
The male child is also being abused but society has conditioned them to stay quiet.
If anything similar happened to you, this is a safe space. Feel free to share your story in the comments.
I didn't ask for Tunji's consent to share this story. I have deliberately left out certain details to protect his identity. Some things are better left unsaid out of respect for him as a person.
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