Singapore
Singapore began debating its contradictory sex laws this month, after a man was sentenced to two years in jail for receiving oral sex. The case has sparked a lively public discussion in the letters columns of newspapers and on Internet chat sites. Prostitution is legal in the authoritarian island nation, but most nonmissionary sex acts are not. The women’s magazine Cosmopolitan and the racy TV show Sex and the City were banned until just a few months ago. Many young Singaporeans say the sex laws are antiquated, and they’ve persuaded Parliament to consider amending them in the next legislative session. The government said it supported the recent jail sentence because the convicted man was a police officer and his sex partner was only 15.
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