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Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death, according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper. http://english.alarabiya.net/mob/en/210198.html |
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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2012, 11:30:49 AM » |
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I love the way the law allows the wife to have sex with her dead husband. HOW?
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 11:32:37 AM » |
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Tricky, but it's amazing what you can do with a lolly-stick and some masking tape.
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2012, 11:37:43 AM » |
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Is this a thing? Why is this a thing?
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« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2012, 11:48:57 AM » |
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« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2012, 12:00:37 PM » |
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I love the way the law allows the wife to have sex with her dead husband. HOW?
Rigor mortis. Supporters of this law will come up against stiff opposition, I dare say. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2012, 12:17:26 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 12:35:32 PM » |
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I'm certain I wouldn't want to have sex with my dead wife, even if the body was still warm, but I don't see it as that big of a deal. The dead can't say no, and it deals with spouses... It's certainly strange, but I don't think it's that big a deal. Granted, I didn't read the article very closely, so I may have missed something important that would change my opinion.
Granted the law isn't exactly fair. The woman would have to prop up her husbands member somehow. I never understood societies outrage to necrophilia. It's disgusting, but it's also victimless.
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« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 12:49:00 PM » |
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I think what disturbs me about it is that apparently it's a common enough occurance that they need a law to protect a man's right to do it? Like, I would think that true necrophilia (an actual sexual attraction to the dead) would probably be rare enough to not need such a law. But, the idea that many men would want to have sex with their wife's corpse (again, enough that there needs to be a law about it) makes me think that the wife, living or dead, is just a thing to masturbate in to. That's gross and degrading.
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« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2012, 12:51:33 PM » |
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Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death, according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper. http://english.alarabiya.net/mob/en/210198.htmlBugger me. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2012, 01:16:10 PM » |
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Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away from its earlier story. There is a tiny grain of truth in the story, because apparently, there is a Moroccan cleric on the lunatic fringe (Zamzami Abdul Bari, mentioned in the Al-Arabiya story linked above) who did say a while back that a man "remains married to his wife for six hours after her death" with all that implied. An earlier Christian Science Monitor piece on this-- "Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey." |
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« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2012, 01:25:26 PM » |
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Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away from its earlier story. There is a tiny grain of truth in the story, because apparently, there is a Moroccan cleric on the lunatic fringe (Zamzami Abdul Bari, mentioned in the Al-Arabiya story linked above) who did say a while back that a man "remains married to his wife for six hours after her death" with all that implied. An earlier Christian Monitor piece on this-- "Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey."Glad to hear it! That was disturbing! |
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« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2012, 01:25:39 PM » |
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Thank you! Was about to post it was a hoax. Hadn't even heard the story until I heard the fun folks over on 'Ask an Atheist' podcast mentioning the story, and that it was a hoax. Apparently the story was originally an opinion paper/position piece that, through the miracles of misunderstanding/bad translation/whatever else got listed as a news story. |
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« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 01:38:47 PM » |
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Glad it's not a thing!
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« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 02:43:58 PM » |
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I think what disturbs me about it is that apparently it's a common enough occurance that they need a law to protect a man's right to do it? Like, I would think that true necrophilia (an actual sexual attraction to the dead) would probably be rare enough to not need such a law. But, the idea that many men would want to have sex with their wife's corpse (again, enough that there needs to be a law about it) makes me think that the wife, living or dead, is just a thing to masturbate in to. That's gross and degrading.
I think a lot of them are coroners. It is good it is a hoax though. Apparently it's limited to those who work with the dead over there too. |
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