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 (http://english.alarabiya.net/mob/en/210198.html)
I love the way the law allows the wife to have sex with her dead husband. HOW?
Tricky, but it's amazing what you can do with a lolly-stick and some masking tape.
Is this a thing? Why is this a thing?
What the hell?
Quote from: Tank on May 03, 2012, 07:30:49 PM
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.
Quote from: Scissorlegs on May 03, 2012, 08:00:37 PM
Quote from: Tank on May 03, 2012, 07:30:49 PM
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.
:D
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.
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.
Quote from: OldGit on May 03, 2012, 07:22:58 PM
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 (http://english.alarabiya.net/mob/en/210198.html)
Bugger me.
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0430/Ahead-of-elections-Egypt-s-state-propaganda-machine-rolls-on) already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/30/211238.html) 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." (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0426/Egypt-necrophilia-law-Hooey-utter-hooey)
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 09:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0430/Ahead-of-elections-Egypt-s-state-propaganda-machine-rolls-on) already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/30/211238.html) 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." (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0426/Egypt-necrophilia-law-Hooey-utter-hooey)
Glad to hear it! That was disturbing!
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 09:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0430/Ahead-of-elections-Egypt-s-state-propaganda-machine-rolls-on) already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/30/211238.html) 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.
Glad it's not a thing!
Quote from: Ali on May 03, 2012, 08:49:00 PM
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.
I'm going to vomit.
Like Ali said, this is beyond degrading. Just another way to make a human being nothing but an object.
Quote from: Sweetdeath on May 03, 2012, 11:29:44 PM
I'm going to vomit.
Like Ali said, this is beyond degrading. Just another way to make a human being nothing but an object.
Hope you saw it was a hoax before you got ill.
Of all the damned weird things to be a hoax, I'm glad this was one but we wonder why out of all the subjects to get hoaxed THIS one was
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 09:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0430/Ahead-of-elections-Egypt-s-state-propaganda-machine-rolls-on) already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/30/211238.html) 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." (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0426/Egypt-necrophilia-law-Hooey-utter-hooey)
Goes to show why it is good to check on a stories veracity. This is true especially when the stories deal with groups that we don't like or trust.
Quote from: markmcdaniel on June 06, 2012, 10:58:40 AM
Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2012, 09:16:10 PM
Funny stuff, but it was shown to be a hoax (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0430/Ahead-of-elections-Egypt-s-state-propaganda-machine-rolls-on) already. As that article mentions, Al-Arabiya has already backed away (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/30/211238.html) 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." (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0426/Egypt-necrophilia-law-Hooey-utter-hooey)
Goes to show why it is good to check on a stories veracity. This is true especially when the stories deal with groups that we don't like or trust.
Word.