Health & Fitness
I speak to Oghosa Ovienrioba, better known by her personal brand Sincerely Oghosa. Oghosa is a 28-year-old Nigerian English female influencer who, in 2014, published a video wherein she bravely discussed having suffered from porn addiction. Like all addictions, Oghosa’s was a behavioral adaptation to trauma; namely, being the victim of chronic childhood sexual abuse. Oghosa’s experience is particularly significant because the grooming and subsequent abuse she suffered was perpetrated by a peer only slightly older than her at the time, and of the same gender identity. We discuss child-on-child violence, an abuse dynamic rarely acknowledged in rape culture and rape myth. To follow Oghosa’s journey, visit her instagram page (@sincerelyoghosa). The resource mentioned during this interview is Barnardo’s, www.barnardos.org.uk, a children’s charity established to help underserved children in 1866.