Women in Uganda start a fight against lazy men, 6 dollar sex tax

She realized that he was spending his salary on alcohol and his time sleeping with prostitutes. The 34-year-old decided to end this and teach her husband a lesson. Now when he comes home and wants sex from her he has to pay.

This is a controversial strategy, but it is growing throughout Uganda, as women increasingly encouraged by rights organizations face a patriarchal society where responsibilities and morals are both distorted against them.

What started on isolated occasions in the capital of Kampala has broken out in a tactic, more and more Ugandan women are hiring their husbands to pay for the expenses of family economies and to pay off their refusal to take matters home.

Three years ago, 150 women first reported that they wanted money from their men for sex at the Mothers Union, an Anglican organization that has been in Uganda for over a century, says Body Secretary Ruth Nalugla.

This number rose to 5,000 to 2016, and now more than 30,000 women have reported hiring the strategy, she says. The current number of women who accuse their sex husbands may be greater, says Stella Mujana, chairman of Bakazibano, a women's rights organisation in Uganda.

But its organisation has recorded more than 31,000 cases, she says. In May, Uganda's government newspaper, The New Vision, reported how “began as a joke” is now “reality”. ”

The spread of this practice is the division of society in Uganda.

Some men have agreed to pay, and some have returned more responsible to their families.

Others have refused to pay for sex, and in some cases, requests from women have erupted into domestic violence even from random deaths.

Some religious leaders and government ministers have weighed against the practice, calling it immoral and secular.

But most women's and rights organisations support the strategy, arguing that any approach that irresponsible men take to contribute to the welfare of their families is justified.