The “Wife Material” Divide: A toxic but incredibly prevalent stereotype in Nigerian dating culture is the dichotomy between women men want for fun and women they want to marry. Men often publicly pursue women with massive nyash or breasts for casual flings, but harbor a secret bias toward slimmer, less curvaceous women when choosing a wife. This dichotomy is rooted in misogynistic assumptions that highly curvaceous women are inherently promiscuous, while less endowed women are “safer” and more docile.