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Motolani Alake

<h1>Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana is a staple of Nigerian pop culture, weaving ideas through originality, discussing relevant socio-political issues with heaving table shaking, comic skits, criticizing corruption and vices at all levels, and making music a tool for socio-political activism in line with what the greatest musician in Nigerian history, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti gained notoriety for in his heydays.</h1>

<p>Over the past seven years that Falz has grown and matured as an artist, from the guy who made, 'Jessica' and ‘High Class’, he has taken on pedophilia, prostitution, troubled adolescence, perils of success, rape, Internet fraud, materialistic pastors, pervert uncles and other noteworthy discussions in a world where public figures are afraid to shake tables.</p>

<p>On <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/album-review-falz-has-the-formula-to-making-rap-music-pop-in-27/kj52v93" id="d9a27c55-9642-4e67-b0bf-23d396f979d7">his last album 27</a>', he made the standout song, ‘<a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/falz-rappers-child-of-the-world-video-continues-to-elevate-his-socio-conscious-status/8nxkp8h" id="60717c09-661f-4b92-96d8-e56d3e48edb0">Child of the World,</a>’ about the worrying outcomes of a focused girl, raped by a family member she trusts. The experience and trauma then morphed into promiscuity and life-altering contact with HIV — and there, Falz started getting criticisms online. </p>

<p>Feminism in itself, as an instrument of social justice and advocacy, in its pure form is a needed tool to cut down entrenched patriarchy and promote the rights of women.</p>

<p><strong>Criticism vs. Falz</strong></p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I stopped paying attention to whatever falz had to say after child of the world video.</p>&mdash; child of Christ!! (@Godess__chrissy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Godess__chrissy/status/1085192970016415744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I watched y&#39;all call Falz woke for that Child of the world video, I ain&#39;t forget y&#39;all. I ain&#39;t forget.</p>&mdash; cyn💕 (@uxcynn) <a href="https://twitter.com/uxcynn/status/1081894513466068995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This Falz *Child of the world song woulda made sense only if he didn&#39;t turn around to make the girl who was a victim of rape the &quot;offender&quot; She was blamed in the end for &quot;going astray&quot; by being a &quot;runs girl&quot; which shifted the whole focus from the actual perparator(the rapist) smh</p>&mdash; Father Of Creativity 💡 (@mr_lekkyd) <a href="https://twitter.com/mr_lekkyd/status/1025821393055887363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was going to write a whole piece but my fingers started to cramp and I decided I’d put my twitter account to some good use.<br>My thoughts on Falz’s Child Of The World: A Thread.</p>&mdash; Kal-El, yes. (@wadund_) <a href="https://twitter.com/wadund_/status/1022939681766473729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>When the visuals for ‘Child of the World' dropped, in the thick of conversations around rape, consent and tacit permission to rapists through victim shaming, critics neglected the entire positive conversations that Falz evoked in his music and pivoted the narrative in how he shames ‘runs girls’ and engages in other forms of ‘slut-shaming.’</p>

<p><strong>First, who is a runs girl and what is slut-shaming?</strong></p>

<p>A ‘runs girl’ is Nigerian lingo for a transactional sex practitioner that does not stay in a brothel or inhabits any form of red light zone. She is usually a high-class escort, sometimes, a courtesan to uber-rich Nigerian men — or <em>aristos </em>— and makes a good living in the hustle.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/celebrities/kelly-osbourne-show-host-sued-by-dads-mistress-for-slut-shaming/8nsq9tn" id="7948d9d9-f9af-43ea-aa6b-bf6b27ef0955">Slut-shaming</a>, on the other hand, is premised on the idea of patriarchy limiting the sexual expression and sexual liberalism of a modern woman. Slut-shaming is the act of ‘policing’ a woman’s body - especially when that critic condones a man sleeping around in a roundhouse of hypocrisy.</p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For all of you who say he doesn&#39;t mention the buyers of sexual service, here he Falz goes: <a href="https://t.co/qmRg7JUDTR">pic.twitter.com/qmRg7JUDTR</a></p>&mdash; Joey Akan (@JoeyAkan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyAkan/status/1084942153531428864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>After the era of the issue rumbling on Twitter, Falz was <a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/falz-reacts-to-criticisms-says-he-detests-transactional-sex/536e1kz" id="c2b47f1b-88bf-4712-9b55-b9864cfde534">finally confronted</a> on the issue at the listening party for his new album, “<a href="https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/falz-has-released-his-moral-instruction-album/1gwgxgb" id="d4ebee25-47a8-469c-9d13-d6afdb80e98a">Moral Instruction</a>,” and he duly responded with a criticism of buyers of sex with a quip on his joint effort, ‘Regards To Your Mumsy’ with rapper, Ajebutter22 which addressed pedophilia, predatory sex hunting and aristos and then finished with the unequivocal statement, “<em>I hate transactional sex</em>” to a warm applause. </p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Falz on being accused of slut-shaming. <br><br>&quot;I hate transactional sex.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/nAH0KAt2Vz">pic.twitter.com/nAH0KAt2Vz</a></p>&mdash; Joey Akan (@JoeyAkan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyAkan/status/1084920823281012736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Sadly, it is a misfire from critics. Falz not only has a right to his opinion, but he is also relatively right.</p>

<p><strong>First, we understand critics, but their argument does not hold water</strong> </p>

<p>The argument is that prostitution is a legitimate hustle because everyone has a right to their body. Should we encourage people to accept transactional sex as a hustle because it pays?</p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I do have issues with falz shaming sex workers and runs girls constantly.  if only he knew what drove most to doing what they do</p>&mdash; KF🔺 (@badniggafela) <a href="https://twitter.com/badniggafela/status/1085104877880205312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pls stop bringing Falz slut shaming ass on my TL. That nigga such a simpleton, I can’t.</p>&mdash; evil angela bassett (@jamjahm) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamjahm/status/1084935813933129728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Critics also claim that men who patronize sex workers; should be called out, great point. They’re as complicit in the act as the sex workers in the ‘oldest profession in the world,’ but does that critique of the patronage of prostitution validate prostitution? No. </p>

<p>Why are we unified in our voices against other vices and condemn them while some people want to legitimize prostitution with the concept of free will, abusing that fundamental tenet of ‘free will’ to feminism for selfish and hypocritical ends?</p>

<p>Corruption is as old as time, but time is still no validation for corruption — a vice will forever be a vice.</p>

<p><strong>So what is transactional sex? </strong></p>

<p>A sexual relationship where consideration — in form of money, chattel or gift — is given in direct exchange for that sex. </p>

<p>We also need to clarify what these critics want; to call transactional sex a legitimate hustle or to also call out the buyers of sex? It seems a combination of both, depending on whom you’re arguing with and what they subscribe to. </p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You people can Aristotle all you want and say whatever your Twitter fave has said but well transactional sex cannot be justified and should be condemned. And that&#39;s that.</p>&mdash; Amplify Youth Initiative (@Amplify__) <a href="https://twitter.com/Amplify__/status/1085200934131720193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>So, for tribe allegiance, they have to vilify any man that criticizes any woman on any premise, even though that criticism is pointless — as it is in this case. </p>

<p><strong>Unknown to these critics, legitimizing transactional sex promotes cheating</strong></p>

<p>That said, how is it that most of these critics rightly complain and criticize sexually irresponsible and philandering men all day, calling mega-shots on the <em>scum mantra</em> but are also the same persons who want to protect the sexual proclivities of a woman under the heading, ‘it’s her body.’ Isn’t that double standard that feminism is trying to abolish?</p>

<p>As explained above, ‘runs’ is a core part of transactional sex and sex in this context is mostly bought by married, uber-rich Nigerian men. If these critics hate cheating, and they say transactional sex is good, they are trying to say it’s okay for single women to sleep with other people’s husbands while we only blame the buyers of sex and let the sellers of sex go — that’s just partializing and double standard. </p>

<p>You cannot reap the benefits of a wrong — patriarchy — you root against. Asides that, both the cheater and the person whom a cheater cheats with are animals and critics must understand that. </p>

<p>Yes, we should also shame the patronage of transactional sex, hence the scum mantra but it goes both ways.</p>

<p><strong>Critics also miss the perils of prostitution</strong></p>

<p>As things stand, prostitution is illegal in a lot of territories and Nigeria is one of them. Corruption and exploitation are also ingrained in the human fabric. Some of these sex workers do these things because they feel they are too far gone or because they feel out of options with on survival means. </p>

<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">People are mad because Folrin says he hates transactional sex? <br><br>Lol what? I can’t shout. Shebi its when the stone hits you that you scream? 🤷🏼‍♀️</p>&mdash; YT: The Shanpepe (@_Shanpepe_) <a href="https://twitter.com/_Shanpepe_/status/1085137993340502017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Falz said if you&#39;re engaging in a transactional sex, you&#39;re a prostitute.   okay let&#39;s say falz is wrong, if you&#39;re engaging in transactional sex, what are you?, pastor?, doctor?, nurse? accountant?, architect? pilot?. Please what are you as a boy or girl if not a prostitute?</p>&mdash; Uncle AJ (@UNCLE_AJALA) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNCLE_AJALA/status/1085125369869623296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<div class="embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Falz has a problem with women using their vagina commercially, it&#39;s his opinion. Fact: there are more female sex workers in Nigeria, same way there are more yahoo boys than girls. Watching you all clutch at straws defending something you wouldn&#39;t let your sister do is amusing.</p>&mdash; Marty Byrde (@seunadebajo) <a href="https://twitter.com/seunadebajo/status/1085084238188343296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>On a daily, corrupt law enforcement officers take advantage of them. Rapists take advantage of them, they get abused, shamed, robbed, assaulted and cursed. It’s sad that critics seem to only have a problem with a man criticizing a woman than holistically understanding the concept of transactional sex. </p>

<p>Mention how they are taken advantage of by pimps and madams and if these critics are truly concerned they would be more concerned about this. </p>

<p><strong>Asides that, Falz is entitled to his opinion</strong></p>

<p>From the foregoing, it has been established — at least slightly — why transactional sex will continue to be viewed with judgment and continued to be shamed, even if it becomes legal. It then becomes necessary that Falz is entitled to whatever opinion he has on transactional sex.</p>

<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgP_WJ3zqI</p>

<p>Critics going on rants and tirades are no better from people they criticize for hating feminism. You cannot hate people for having dissenting opinions on issues like this — they are borderline. The point of these critics on transactional sex is likely to be more problematic than the problem of shaming itself.</p>

<p>What is our hope as a people if our children start ascribing to prostitution as a legitimate hustle even if they become discovered exhibitionists who enjoy sex after they come of age? We need to be careful what we abuse.</p>

<p>If truly the outrage is to stop cheating then why the advocacy for transactional sex?</p>

Here is why Falz has a right to hate transactional sex

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