Necrophilia to be legalised in Egypt?

[OldGit]

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

[Tank]

I love the way the law allows the wife to have sex with her dead husband. HOW?

[OldGit]

Tricky, but it's amazing what you can do with a lolly-stick and some masking tape.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Is this a thing? Why is this a thing?

[Ali]

What the hell? 

[Siz]

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.

[Tank]

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.

[ThinkAnarchy]

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.

[Ali]

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.

[En_Route]

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

Bugger me.

[Recusant]

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."

[Ali]

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!

[Amicale]

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.

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.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Glad it's not a thing!

[ThinkAnarchy]

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.