Men are more concerned about their health and are keen on using protection during sexual encounters with ‘side chics’ than women do during coital pleasures with men they are neither dating nor married to.
The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) 2022 shows that 19 per cent of women and 35 per cent of men had sex in the last 12 months with a person who was neither their husband nor wife and neither lived with them.
But despite this being a risk factor for contracting HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases, the data shows that only 37 per cent of the women used condoms with their secret partners popularly known as ‘mpango wa kando’ compared to 68 per cent of men who did so.
