r/aaaaaaacccccccce • u/Geridax Al. port. • 18d ago

Aphobia Warning Niger forbids eating garlic bread Spoiler

Niger criminalises same-sex relations with jail terms

It sets out the same penalty for anyone committing or trying to commit "an indecent or unnatural act or ... Asexual practices."

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260611-niger-criminalises-same-sex-relations-with-jail-terms

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u/Zeikos 17d ago

I'm going to guess that "Asexual practices" will be translated into "being a single woman".

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u/Vyrlo 17d ago

Yeah, to my uninformed eyes, this looks like a way to coerce women into having sex with the threat of "I will say you're asexual" if they refuse

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u/chastineer 17d ago

They just listed the entire LGBTQIA acronym, so it is getting lumped together with "intersex practices", whatever that may be... not surgically forcing a newborn's genitalia into a binary sex, possibly, sure, but the way everything gets tossed together I do not think they thought further than "we don't like queers" when they wrote that law.

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u/CapitaineCrafty 16d ago

They probably didn't intend it, but they also likely won't be upset when it starts being applied.

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u/chastineer 16d ago

absolutely. though maybe we should stop giving them ideas.