Riddle Discourse on Reproductive Health: Lusoga Riddles on Sexuality

Riddle [Na]
let it come [all].
Take bukutu put on bukutu you get bukutu [Na]
haven’t we finished it? [ ].
Take a potato [ ]
No there is another one [Na].
but what would that one be [ ]
also this one has done… [ ]
the other one was not… [ ]
take pinini you put on pinini… [ ]
the other one was pinini [Na].
take money [Jo]
a that is bukutu who was there [Ba]
this one has said bukutu… take bukutu you put on bukutu you get bukutu… bukutu? [Gu].
Bukutu [Na].
Take bukutu you put on bukutu [Gu]
you get bukutu [Na].
Take maize you put in a hole you step on it! [ ]
Not at all [Na]
ahaa! Hi hi hi that is it [ ]
No. aaa [Na swears by heaven]. It’s not that a [Na]
a you are composing [Ja]
e what of this one of kiira [Gu].
Take money you put in … [ ]
maize we just put on a hole? [Gu]
she said take bukutu you put on bukutu [Gu observes] not in [Gu]
hm hm. In the hear bukutu. A drum [Gu]
Not at all [Na]
silence. Take tea leaves [Gu]
Not at all [Na]
put on tea [ ]
you get what? [Na]
hm. Take tea leaves you put on water to get tea [ ].
Not at all [Na]
bukutu… [ ] its there I am seeing it! Even this time I can do it [Na].
Then tell us [Ja]
perhaps give me a chief! [Na].
We have given you a book [ ].
Not at all [Na]
hm. We have given you saile [Ba].
Saile aha Saile the whole of him he can’t manage me and I can’t manage him, I order him that sit down and I push him in the hole of an ant and I give him some tea and it defeats him to finish and I tell him that riddle take bukutu you put on bukutu to get bukutu; take a man, you put on a woman to get a child [Na]
a a a Cissy you are deceiving you [Ja]
e e e Babirye is that not there? [Na]
you go and do what and do what and do what? [Ba]
may I get this one and I put on you then we see? [Jo]
Take! [Na replies bravely].
No they take at night [interjection]. What does it do? [ ]
take a man put on a woman [Jo]
you put on a woman [Gu]
this one [Jo] to get a child [Ch]
to get a child [Gu]
yaah [Ch]
hm so now of the man and the woman who is bukutu? [Gu]
is bukutu [Ja]
you get the other bukutu, you put of the other bukutu, you get out the other bukutu [Na]
she explains the riddle with boldness and gestures] ha ha ha [ ]
you get bukusu or you get bukutu? [Ba]
Bukutu [Ch]
all of them are the bukutu [Na]
e e species [ ]
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