Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non- Nigerians, “bottom power” is an expression in which I suppose means something like a woman who uses her sexuality to get favors from men. But “bottom power” is not power at all. Bottom power means that a woman simply has a good root to tap into, from time to time, somebody else’s power. And then of course we have to wonder when that somebody else is in a bad mood, or sick, or impotent. .Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Bottom power means that a woman simply has a good root to tap into, from time to time, somebody else’s power. And then of course we have to wonder when that somebody else is in a bad mood, or sick, or impotent. The expression “bottom power” is an expression that can be used to describe the sexual dominance of women over men. It comes from the idea that it is easier for a man, with his penis, to penetrate a woman than it is for her to penetrate him.
Thus the expression bottom power implies that women are capable of having sexual intercourse with men without having to use their vaginas. A woman could have her penis penetrated by another man without needing her vagina at all.
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