Not sure if it is true… but

by robert neff on August 26, 2008

It is amazing the kind of stuff you come across while doing research on the “net.” I guess it also makes you wonder what kind of research I am doing. I found this on the blog “A legend in my own mind”. Here are some observations he made with his comments about a year ago: You can read his blog’s archives here… some funny stuff in there.

In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female.
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.)

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror. (Do they look different reversed?)

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times. (A brick??)

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. (…so they’ll never know they went blind?)

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time… Reason: Under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let’s just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband’s lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Now this is justice!)

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England — but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act. (Makes one shudder at the thought.)

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time. (I presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law?)

In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only “in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.” (Is this a great country or what? Not as great as Guam!)

{ 22 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Sylvain August 26, 2008 at 5:31 pm

Guam: I’m not sure I would want that job. Can you imagine what kind of virgins would need to pay to get deflowered? not even their future husbands would do it for free?

2 Robert Koehler August 26, 2008 at 6:01 pm

Not sure what to think about the Guam thing:

http://members.aol.com/magastodu/c_issues/ntl_news/01012002.htm

3 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 August 26, 2008 at 6:04 pm

i have a feeling all of it is true.

you know, a lot of the Muslim kids in the US are living in an “evil world”.

Mo seems to have been a man preoccupied with what he considered sexual sins.

interesting though, that he married underaged child females to indulge in sex.

i am one who believes he ascended no where near heaven.

4 bigrich August 26, 2008 at 6:20 pm

This was funnier when I got it via email in 1997.

5 Mr Kim August 26, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Yeah, you left off the part about forwarding it to ten of your friends on pain of a shit sex life.

6 aaronm August 26, 2008 at 11:46 pm

#3, nor did Jesus, if you need invisible friends a crutch, there is something missing. The bit about Indonesia is bollox, btw, testament to the internet being the latest version of the old wive’s tale. I know for a fact, anyhow, as I cranked out a beauty this morning.

7 Piper August 26, 2008 at 11:59 pm

This has happened before. Sometimes Robert lets his guard down and allows “less than gifted” people to take advantage of his hospitality.

It will pass.

8 mizar5 August 27, 2008 at 12:01 am

Good find. It’s nice to laugh about our human foibles Johnathan Swift-like. It would be refreshing if contentions among competing interests were resolved through laughoffs rather than war.

9 bumfromkorea August 27, 2008 at 12:04 am

These are all dead laws that no one bothered to repeal because it was never enforced, right?

Here in AZ, it’s illegal for you to let your donkey sleep in your bathtub or to have six or more women live in a same household without registering the property as a brothel. :-D

10 NewYorkTom August 27, 2008 at 12:23 am

I believe in one of the southern states (Arkansas?), it’s legal to whip your wife with a stick as long as the stick is narrower than your thumb.

11 Zonath August 27, 2008 at 1:00 am

#10 –

No such thing as a rule of thumb.

12 WangKon936 August 27, 2008 at 5:08 am

Time to change professions and move to Guam… ;)

13 j August 27, 2008 at 6:01 am

Isn’t Guam US territory?

14 Zonath August 27, 2008 at 6:14 am

Isn’t Guam US territory?

Sure it is. But that doesn’t stop people from making dumb internet posts about it based on silly false rumors that were either related by some dude’s cousin during a night of drinking or else found on a bathroom wall.

Look at the thing about not being able to buy condoms from vending machines in Maryland… Fact is, a pretty quick search of the Maryland statutes does turn up a couple laws regarding condoms and vending machines, but one prohibits the sale of non-latex condoms in vending machines (presumably because they tend to be of the lambskin variety that don’t do jack to stop STDs and the legislature figures that most people inclined from buying prophylactics from vending machines might benefit from having a whole box full of warnings to read), and the other prohibits condom-selling vending machines in schools. So presumably, this list is either out of date, or else just was never accurate in the first place.

15 madne0 August 27, 2008 at 6:29 am

Headed over to snopes.com, and at least that Guam deflowerers thing seems to be not true

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=16;t=001089;p=0

16 hardyanditny August 27, 2008 at 7:41 am

Guam doesn’t even have a countryside.

17 aaronm August 27, 2008 at 11:01 am

#11. No such thing as a rule of thumb.

Yes there are. In fact, there are ten.

http://home.total.net/~fishnet/

Scroll down.

18 Leguwan August 27, 2008 at 12:43 pm

And North Korea has declared brinkmanship illegal, except when screwing America.

19 soondae August 27, 2008 at 1:35 pm

‘In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female.’ Not in the UAE. A few years back, a farmer was caught having sex with a female camel. He was given a small term of prison time and then deported. The camel was put to death, as she was considered to have been ‘tainted’.

20 CanuckyGreg August 27, 2008 at 3:36 pm

“The camel was put to death, as she was considered to have been
tainted”

Shame about the camel. How many humps did she have?

21 soondae August 28, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Only 1 :( ((

22 Bobby Mcgill August 31, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Mother in the room during sex? That is natural birth control if there ever was.

Bobby
http://idlewordship.com

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