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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/lgbtq_plus/p/1184160/why-niger-explicitly-criminalising-asexuality-is-significant-to-everyone-regardless-of-ident

To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 86 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What, are they going to make it illegal to not have sex then? What?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Nigerien*

Nigerian would be someone from Nigeria

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 days ago

Niger being a different, fully islamic country, mostly in the Sahara instead of on the lush coast. Since a lot of people don't know the difference

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

So incels are not somebodies? I don't get it.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would not put it past the nutjobs (of any country) to pass a law that requires that each and every person* ensures their own replacement if not also surplus to that effect to make up for those that can't. Or won't.

* of course, by that point they might have created propaganda if not also a law about who or what counts as a person, because they only want more of those, not anyone who might be classified as less than one.

[–] jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

"We're in this for the species, boys and girls!"

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

It's more about not being able to be open about it.

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Being outwardly celibate is a way lots of different people resist. That is now removed.

You can expect to be used against unmarried women, forcing them to get married. Likely also bound to stigmatize getting married at even a mildly later date than one might have.

It removes any protections LGBTQ folks may have had by staying "single" publicly.

Will likely also result in couples being unable to have children being otherwise persecuted.