Swazi king drops sex-ban tassels

[emad]

Swaziland's King Mswati III has ended a five-year sex ban he imposed on the kingdom's teenage girls a year early.

The girls have had to wear large woollen tassels as a sign of their chastity since 2001. These are to be burnt in a huge ceremony on Tuesday.

The sex ban was imposed to fight the spread of HIV/Aids. Swaziland has one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, at about 40% of the population.

The king fined himself a cow for breaking the ban by marrying again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4165432.stm

[davidinalameda]

1. did he marry the cow

:shrug:

[Megahurtz]

2. Oh sure, blame the girls!

Dumbass.:dunce:

[htuttle]

3. What do you think the 'after-tassel-burning' party is going to be like?

:D

[emad]

4. Sawziland such a bastion of democracy....maybe Shrub/Poodle

prioritising it next, after Iraq pullout?

[Kipling]

5. Wow. It's a big, wide, wierd world.

[daleo]

6. Don't have a cow, dude. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

7. Don't let Santorum hear about those cows

He'll get too excited.

[coffeenap]

8. Here is a link to bizarro world of the Swazi king

http://www.afrol.com/News2002/swa007_mswati_abductions.htm

[Zenlitened]

9. And boys weren't required to wear "large woolen tassles" because....?

Oh, that's right. Men are people. Women are property.

:puke: