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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity (www.wearequeeraf.com)

submitted 1 week ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/lgbtq_plus/p/1184160/why-niger-explicitly-criminalising-asexuality-is-significant-to-everyone-regardless-of-ident

To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

The fuck is the crime??

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago

Being a virgin.

[-] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 8 points 6 days ago

leans in

What's the punishment?

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

😏

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Death. Sacrifice to the volcano god.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

The not fuck is the crime.

[-] dismay3915@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Time to go to Niger to get my subsided sex coupon then.

[-] chmod755@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's crazy man. What if someone is a priest or something like that?

[-] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Religious exemptions are always popular with people who write these kinds of laws.

[-] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Traditional family = more people to be exploited by religion and capitalists.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 days ago

I can understand why would someone want to criminalize homisexuality or transexuality. I think those reasons are utterly stupid and deeply immoral, but at least I can see the reasoning behind them. But asexuality?

[-] Bob@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago

Homosexuals and asexuals are functionally the same in that they don't want to engage in reproductive sex. This creates a smaller tax base and must therefore be discouraged.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 2 points 6 days ago

Niger has 7 children per woman.

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

That's kinda a huge problem. So Africa much like the 1800s in first world countries, you'd have like 9 kids because maybe 3 would make it to 18+. When vaccines, antibiotics, ect were discovered suddenly only like 1 or 2 of these 9 kids died before 18. So we stopped having a ton of kids and had kike 1-3 typically.

In Africa while maybe being behind the are benifiting from medial advances and less kids are dying. But now because of that they're still having 9 kids and they have no food or water because of overpopulation among other things.

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

africa is really thinly populated. niger has 23 people /km², while germany has 230 pp/km².

how do you explain that?

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Simple. They want to make it illegal for women not to have sex.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We're all making fun of Nige~~l~~r

[-] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

WHY ARE YU NOT GAE?

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 week ago

What, are they going to make it illegal to not have sex then? What?

[-] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Being outwardly celibate is a way lots of different people resist. That is now removed.

You can expect to be used against unmarried women, forcing them to get married. Likely also bound to stigmatize getting married at even a mildly later date than one might have.

It removes any protections LGBTQ folks may have had by staying "single" publicly.

Will likely also result in couples being unable to have children being otherwise persecuted.

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