Strange Customs...

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Strange Customs...

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I got a few laughs out of this:
Unwind wrote:- 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.

- Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex 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. (Wonder which head?)

- 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. (Ah! 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, however)
I wonder what is the official title to the Guam job?
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Heh, awesome.

I feel bad for the men in Idonesia though, especially the young men. :P
I wonder what the punishment for rape is over there.
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I'm moving to Guam.

Some of those sound fake though.

I've never been in Colombia but Ecuador is pretty much the same shit and that custom sounds ridiculous by our standards.

It probably only happens in a very small area within/around Cali and nobody takes it seriously most likely.
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Those men in Gaum, they must think they are in paradise :lol:
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Ok, for my first vacation I choose.......Guam!
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A custum i like a lot is this:

The penalty for rape in Saud Arabia is amputations of hand and Feet.

I must say i like it specially since here in sweden the law is a joke when its about rape. If the women has had a mililier of alcohol, the rapist goes free.
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Guam for me, too.

By the way elven king, isn't your new avatar actually a portrait of Sephiroth, just with different colors?
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ryusenka wrote:Ok, for my first vacation I choose.......Guam!
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