Saturday, April 28, 2012

'Farewell Intercourse' law allowing sex with dead wives sparks fury in Egypt

Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament is set to introduce a law allowing husbands to have sex with their dead wives up to six hours after death. Critics fear it highlights a trend of increasingly anti-female legislation since the Arab Spring.

­The “Farewell Intercourse” bill was inspired by a Fatwa issued by a Moroccan cleric last year. Zamzami Abdul Bar said that since the two would meet in Heaven again anyway, death shouldn’t get in the way of one last post-mortem marital romp.



Critics have slammed the law as “catastrophic.” Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) have called on Parliament not to adopt this and other measures which they believe increasingly seek to roll back women’s rights.

The NCW further charges that "marginalizing and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country's human development.” Along with the rather grim “Farewell Intercourse” draft law, parliament is also set to approve legislation that would allow girls as young as 14 to get married.

6 comments:

Ratz said...

Given how shockingly fast people cool down after death, they may find necrophilia isn't the only thing making their nads shrink.

Anonymous said...

I did a podcast on necrophilia recently. It doesn't shock me one bit.

Anonymous said...

Goodbye 21st century, hello 10th century!

Brixter said...

They would have made the bill for both sexes, unfortunately it's hard (or rather not hard) for wives to have sex with their husband's corpse.

Ratz said...

Brixter: Maybe starch would help.

Anonymous said...

The link is to Russia Today. The Mail withdrew this story, as did every other mainstream news outlet. RT publish drivel, I would class this as such. It's completely unsubstantiated nonsense.