Posted on 12/07/2022 3:08:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that bans anyone in the country from having extramarital sex and restricts political freedoms.
Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year under the new laws, which take effect in three years.
The raft of changes come after a rise in religious conservatism in the Muslim-majority country.
Critics see the laws as a "disaster" for human rights, and a potential blow to tourism and investment.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
In other news:
Indonesia experiences sharp drop in Marraiges.
Probably the other way around.
Interesting. I see your point. Incentive or non-Incentive based on gender possibly. Don’t know enough about the culture. Been there three times. Nice zoo.
back when it was harder to have sex outside of marriage, people got married earlier and to a greater degree.
Does that include goats???
technically only sex with a married woman is adultery, everything else falls under the category of fornication.
I mean, it's IN the 10 Commandments...Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.
And Vlad is the standard-bearer of all that is good and right. I know because his FRiends tell me so.
Oh, but wait...Putin dumped his wife and is dating(!) some other woman. He's guilty of Adultery.
Whoops...better not do that, Vlad. It's easier to outlaw other Bad Things.
Enjoy the Lake of Fire with that other fraud, Fauci.
Are they going to arrest 90% of the people in Russia? They don’t even enforce the gay laws, it’s just for show.
“ Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year under the new laws”
Ban gay marriage if it’s not already and clean the place up
a·dul·ter·y
/əˈdəlt(ə)rē/
noun
voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse.
Popular vacation spot for Austrailians. Could see a drop in tourism.
To a greater degree? I can't imagine being any more married than I am right now.
Do wallabies count?
and a potential blow to tourism and investment.
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Probably to stop the sex trade industry. The Bidens will be hit the hardest.
“In some USA states, both people are guilty of adultery if one of them is married to someone else.
These state include: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
In 2013 Colorado repealed its anti-adultery law.
In other USA states, the rule only applies to a married woman.
Fornication laws, which effectively make all forms of sex outside marriage illegal : Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah.
In Florida adultery (“Living in open adultery”, Art 798.01) is illegal; while cohabitation of unmarried couples was decriminalized in 2016.
Under the law of many states, a single act of adultery constitutes a crime, whereas in others, there must be an ongoing and notorious relationship.”
https://infidelityrecoveryinstitute.com/u-s-a-laws-on-infidelity-and-adultery/
Bkmk
The rest can go free. Because, ya know, Putin the Adulterer, overseeing a nation with a higher rate of abortion (which is still legal over there, btw) than America, is more righteous than the West.
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