{"id":226897,"date":"2022-11-04T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=226897"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:00:47","slug":"consenting-adults-should-be-left-to-do-what-they-want-soyinka-speaks-on-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/11\/04\/consenting-adults-should-be-left-to-do-what-they-want-soyinka-speaks-on-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Consenting Adults Should Be Left To Do What They Want&#8221; &#8211; Soyinka Speaks On Gay Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, has stated that consenting adults should be allowed to choose their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka stated this on the most recent episode of #WithChude, hosted by media personality Chude Jideonwo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The award-winning author pointed specifically only those who should have an opinion on sexual orientation\u00a0<em>\u201cthe whole science of hormones and the psychology involved in choice in human attraction,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/08\/gay-party-raided-by-police-in-anambra\/\">gay<\/a> and transgender rights, Soyinka said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Only those who understand the full makeup of human beings should even attempt to pronounce negatively on the sexual orientation of anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Anybody who has absolutely pursued the whole science of hormones, the psychology involved in choice in human attraction. I will listen to only that person who wants to speak negatively about sexual orientation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>I believe that consenting adults should be left alone to do what they want as long as what they do and how they do it does not impinge on the rights of the rest of society and does not attempt to present their orientation as what should be the orientation of the rest of the world. Some of them go that far, and that is where they get into trouble with me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Commenting on \u2018Ake: <strong>The Years of Childhood\u2019<\/strong>, his memoir, Soyinka said he initially wanted to write about the late I.O. Ransome Kuti, his uncle who doubled as the father of the late Fela Anikulapo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>What I wanted to write was the biography of my uncle, I.O. 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