Moscow considers kissing ban

BBC ^ | Nov 8, 2003

[Akira]

...particularly blatant cases could even lead to a spell of temporary detention in jail...

Blatant kisses, as opposed to...?

[COUNTrecount]

Wait til Bloomberg hears of this new use of power !

[martin_fierro]

Next they'll outlaw vidka.

[martin_fierro]

Vidka, vodka, whatever. <|:)~

[AlexW]

"Vidka, vodka, whatever. <|:)~"

Did you have a few screwdrivers to start your day?, hahahaha

[sam_paine]

the Orwellian level of an anti-sexual league and capital punishment for the offence

I dunno. Maybe Orwellian. But Huxleylike totalitarianism seemed to endorse lascivious behavior. I think this is technicaly more "Puritanical" than "Orwellian."

[bluefish]

I must have been asleep. When did the Chechnyan "rebels" win their struggle and take over Moscow?

[sd-joe]

the plan was aimed at raising levels of public morality

Oh no, not public morality, only immorality will do.

[EsclavoDeCristo]

They could have used this ban at my high school!!!

[Kaslin]

I wonder how they feel about this?

Or this?

[aruanan]

Tatyana Maskimova = MY VITA: A SATAN AMOK

[StatesEnemy]

I dunno. Maybe Orwellian. But Huxleylike totalitarianism seemed to endorse lascivious behavior. I think this is technicaly more "Puritanical" than "Orwellian."

Brave New World indeed!

[george wythe]

Kissing to become in Russia?

Then only 1920 movies will be shown when kissing was implied but not displayed in love scenes:

[William Tell]

sam_paine said: I dunno. Maybe Orwellian. But Huxleylike totalitarianism seemed to endorse lascivious behavior. I think this is technicaly more "Puritanical" than "Orwellian."

Another aspect of "Orwellian" control is that the control is arbitrary. One day the nation is aligned with "Oceania" and the next day opposed. The people were expected to adapt to the changed allegiances and controls without question. The state which can prohibit kissing in public can also mandate it. That which is not prohibited becomes required.

I believe it is in Missouri that the state constitution enumerates the right to keep and bear arms but which contains a clause that such right "shall not justify the carrying of concealed weapons". A judge has ruled that this clause prohibits carrying of concealed weapons. The "thinking" (if it can be called that) is that whatever is not a protected right must therefor be prohibited even with legislative approval.

[george wythe]

From 1984 by George Orwell:

The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it. All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee appointed for the purpose, and -- though the principle was never clearly stated -- permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another. The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.

Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema. This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member from childhood onwards. There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League, which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes. All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination (artsem, it was called in Newspeak) and brought up in public institutions. This, Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted in with the general ideology of the Party. The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it. He did not know why this was so, but it seemed natural that it should be so. And as far as the women were concerned, the Party's efforts were largely successful.

[Orion78]

PING!

Russia is so free and so democratic ... Just look at Putin and his flat tax ... nevermind that Russians would even consider throwing you in jail until you pay a 10-17$ fine for kissing in public ...

[RusIvan]

Orion but it is stupid hoax. Never no major of no city will pass such of legislature. He just kill himself politically. Anyone russian will make joke of him for many years to come.
They will call him a gay, a lame head or just old virgin. All these are strong dirides so they destroy man's reputation so no one will vote for him including womaen. No russian woman wil vote for the old virgin or gay. No way.

[RussianConservative]

To bad, better hurry to Moscow and inform all teenagers in Victory Park to stop kissing.

[RussianConservative]

Oh and paranoid, first this just legistlature and not ban and I really surprised if it ever pass...also, consider that in many US county also ban on public display of affection, on breast feeding babies and of even having alcohol or dare drink on own property and piss off fundimentalist neighbors...go cry me river.

[Consort]

Moscovites caught kissing in public places could be fined...

What about if they're kissed in their private places?