Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Woah. Scary. Singapore features in a 2 PAGE article on Reuters.com.

Soul Searching Over Sex is the title.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore, where prostitution is legal and oral sex is a crime, is doing some soul searching over morality, sexuality and the law.

In a country ranked last for two straight years in a global list of most sexually active nations, and where fertility rates are falling, debate over laws on sex is growing after a 27-year-old man was jailed for two years for receiving oral sex.


Hehehe... singapore is the least sexually active nation. we don't have sex. deh.

Sustained public criticism of Singapore's semi-authoritarian government, and its laws, is extremely rare. But calls for the government to withdraw from the bedroom are filling Web chat rooms, buzzing around cafes and stirring protests from lawyers.

Interesting. semi-authoritarian government, eh? looks like we're worse than muslim nations...

The criticisms come as the government struggles to relax censorship laws that now ban Playboy magazine, clip racy scenes from movies and scissor drug references from pop cultural magazines -- rules that have helped earn Singapore the well-known sobriquet of Asia's "nanny state."

wow. now what the heck is a sobriquet of Asia's "nanny state"?

On Singapore's most fashionable shopping street, for example, a plaza with dry cleaning services, jewelers and golf stores is also filled with escort services and several floors of discos known as gathering points for women selling sex.

I like that. "filled with escort services and several floors of discos known as gathering points for women selling sex". I wonder which plaza that is? gotta go check it out... kidding.

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