(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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12 responses to “(Straight) Anal and oral sex to be decriminalised”

  1. Muffy Wong Avatar

    Wait. ok I just had an argument with my parents this weekend about this. So you CAN get chewing gum in pharmacies? I was told by my sister that was the case but my parents were adamant that it’s not true.

  2. Muffy Wong Avatar

    Wait. ok I just had an argument with my parents this weekend about this. So you CAN get chewing gum in pharmacies? I was told by my sister that was the case but my parents were adamant that it’s not true.

  3. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Yes you can! I bought some earlier this year, but I had to be registered as a gum-user. The pharmacist has my details, and is tracking my habit.

  4. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Yes you can! I bought some earlier this year, but I had to be registered as a gum-user. The pharmacist has my details, and is tracking my habit.

  5. fynyx Avatar

    Interesting to note that lawyer Amolat Singh did make a comment on mr brown.

  6. fynyx Avatar

    Interesting to note that lawyer Amolat Singh did make a comment on mr brown.

  7. […] Just as I didn’t know until recently that there was such a thing as marital immunity as a defence against the crime of rape within a marital relationship. Now that I am aware of it, I am concerned that the legal reform commission or similar body has not removed this immunity completely, as it should. […]

  8. Brendyn Lim Avatar
    Brendyn Lim

    Too many laws…. lower taxes will be better.

  9. Brendyn Lim Avatar
    Brendyn Lim

    Too many laws…. lower taxes will be better.

  10. […] repeal s377A? I reckon, at least, for the same reasons the other provisions of s377 were repealed – such as the provision for ‘marital immunity‘, for when a husband rapes a wife. […]

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