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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUgandan MPs pass law to ban miniskirts
Ugandan MPs have passed a controversial bill that will ban miniskirts.
The anti-pornography bill, which also outlaws overtly sexual material including music videos, was voted through after a short debate.
When Simon Lokodo, Uganda's ethics and integrity minister, proposed the legislation earlier this year, he said that women who wore "anything above the knee" should be arrested.
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According to Uganda's private Monitor newspaper, the new legislation will outlaw material which shows parts of the body including breasts, thighs and buttocks, or any erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25451709
The anti-pornography bill, which also outlaws overtly sexual material including music videos, was voted through after a short debate.
When Simon Lokodo, Uganda's ethics and integrity minister, proposed the legislation earlier this year, he said that women who wore "anything above the knee" should be arrested.
...
According to Uganda's private Monitor newspaper, the new legislation will outlaw material which shows parts of the body including breasts, thighs and buttocks, or any erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25451709
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Ugandan MPs pass law to ban miniskirts (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2013
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alp227
(32,015 posts)1. The Ugandan government policies towards gays and women:
The result if the Christian Right in America wasn't restricted by "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" etc.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)2. which would make men out of control and MAKE them rape the girls? cause seeing body parts MAKE men
rape?
i am told i hate men if i am offended that people draw these conclusions about me. so. ok. i will accommodate. i will not be outraged alongside men that a man is telling you, you are so out of control and will rape... because of a minskirt.
see. i do learn.
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)3. Much of Africa is going backwards. n/t
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)4. Idi Amin fans perhaps
And maybe some religion influence thrown in for good measure.
madokie
(51,076 posts)5. He took his eating serious
Best I remember that is