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Gay News: HK lowers the age limit for Gay sex

Utopia-asia.Com reports on HK Legislation that allows 16yo gay/lesbian couples to engage in sex.

HONGKONG - Oct 17, 2006

Hong Kong's government on Monday caved in to a challenge against its age of consent laws for gays, effectively lowering the age of consent for homosexuals from 21 to 16 to match laws regarding heterosexuals.

Under former legislation, gay men under 21 were subject to life imprisonment for having sex whereas heterosexual could start having sex five years earlier.

In a short statement, the Security Bureau said it would not seek to reverse the court's decision.

"After considering all the relevant factors, the government decided not to appeal the judicial review," it read.

The courts stated definitively that laws against sodomy infringed on the rights of privacy and equality for homosexual citizens.

“At one stage, societal values dictated that buggery was some form of unnatural act, somehow to be condemned and certainly not condoned. These values have changed in Hong Kong,” Chief Judge Geoffrey Ma said in the judgment.

“I cannot see any justification for either the age limit of 21, or, in particular, for the different treatment of male homosexuals compared with heterosexuals,” Judge Ma said.

Gay News: Singapore Sex Laws

Utopia-Asia.Com reports on the revision of Singapore Sex Laws.

SINGAPORE - Nov 9, 2006

The Singapore government is considering changes to its antique British colonial laws that have criminalized oral and anal sex between consenting adults. But only heterosexual citizens will be allowed to suck and fuck ass under the new revisions.

Homosexuals and bisexuals (about 50% of Singaporean society) would remain subject to penalties, including life imprisonment, for "doin' what comes natur'lly."

Britain, which seeded this legal mess across the lands it conquered and bent to its will, has already repealed its own statutes and allows its citizens to freely go down on each other and knock at the back door any time they like.

Citing the dumb mantra that Singaporeans are backward and unable to think intelligently, the government has once again kowtowed to religious minorities and bigots to maintain irrational prejudice and criminalize common recreations for hundreds of thousands of its citizens.

It remains to be seen if the local gay community can stop partying for a few minutes and make a stand for equal rights under their own laws.