India decriminalizes anal (for dudes)

In a stunning move yesterday, super conservative India reversed a law prohibiting gay sex. This is presumably a result of skyrocketing AIDS rates in the country. Gay men reportedly have affairs in secret and do not use protection (since sex is reserved for marriage, condom use isn’t widely accepted as sex is viewed as a means of reproduction, not pleasure) thus the AIDS virus has spread between homosexual lovers and their beards. Oops, I mean “wives”. Hopefully more progressive attitudes towards homosexuality will lead to education about protection.

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act. The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence". Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence. Many people in India regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate. Rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights. Delhi's High Court ruled that the law outlawing homosexual acts was discriminatory and a "violation of fundamental rights". The court said that a statute in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which defines homosexual acts as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and made them illegal, was an "antithesis of the right to equality".[Source: bbc.co.uk]

I’ve never understood government laws policing sexual behavior. How are such laws enforced? Why do they exist? I can understand certain laws prohibiting sex with children, family members, and animals. Children do not have the mental capacity to fully understand the gravity of their actions and thus cannot legally consent, inbreeding leads to developmental and physical disabilities and higher frequency of the super-weird phenomenon of “herms” and fucking sheep is gross. But when it comes to two consenting adults, who gives a shit? Just because I don’t think foot jobs are sexy doesn’t mean I think you shouldn’t be allowed to do it. This is all a matter of religion. What’s that? The Bible says a man shouldn’t lay with another man? Oh yeah? Well the Bible also says we should break the neck of a cow at the scene of an unsolved murder (seriously, Deuteronomy 21 4). The Bible says a lot of weird shit everyone ignores, so quit being a prick and lay off the gays.