(Straight) Anal and oral sex to be decriminalised

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The review of this fine nation’s Penal Code is almost com­plete, and one of the pro­posed changes is the decrim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of con­sen­sual anal and oral sex between het­ero­sex­ual adults.

How­ever, if you object to this pro­posed change, amongst the other changes which include 19 new offences, you can and should voice your objec­tions at a spe­cial page on reach.gov.sg, which will be open to feed­back until 9 Dec 2006, after which it will close, and the pro­posed changes to the Penal Code will come into effect.

I can’t think of a rea­son why that par­tic­u­lar pro­posed change to the law should be objected to, except that with decrim­i­nal­i­sa­tion, the excite­ment of doing some­thing illicit and out­side the law might be taken away from such activ­ity, you know?

Just as gum-chewing was once an excit­ing pas­time up until it was made avail­able in phar­ma­cies — you went from out­law to sick per­son in need of med­i­cine. Not cool.

More inter­est­ingly, what I did not know, and only found out today, was that there is such a thing as ‘mar­i­tal immu­nity’ for the offence of sex­ual assault com­mit­ted by a hus­band on his wife.

It is, um, encour­ag­ing to note that leg­is­la­tors are con­sid­er­ing the big, big leap of repeal­ing that immu­nity in con­di­tions where the wife is legally sep­a­rated from the hus­band or has taken out a Per­sonal Pro­tec­tion Order against her husband.

I don’t know if I can be arsed though, to find out if they are repeal­ing or amend­ing the offence of ‘out­rag­ing’ someone’s ‘mod­esty’, which, to my mind, is prob­a­bly the uniquely Sin­ga­pore law. I still haven’t the fog­gi­est what it means.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of One Love/People Get Ready from the album “Leg­end” by Bob Mar­ley & The Wail­ers of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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