Forced marriage
Robot sex, dog visitation rights, teens aren't dating & acid attacks.
Good morning, and welcome to December 15, 2008. And here is today’s news: Into porn, in a bad way? You could be in luck. The channel that killed the radio star (as an accomplice), birthed reality TV (a true story about what happens when strangers stop being nice and start being real) and brought us that creep time-lapsed show about that drunk dude wants to climb inside the brain of a porn addict, walk around a bit and see what makes him tick (among other things). And, according to Boinkology, they need a cast. It's still … Read More
Iranian company issues ultimatum.
You thought your nagging mother was bad...
Kidding aside, this bit of news is all kinds of terrible: a state-owned Iranian gas and petro company is concerned about prostitutes and has ordered employees to marry by September or take a pink slip, reports the Feminist Daily News. It's illegal to have sex outside of marriage in Iran.
According to the BBC, here's the edict from on-high:
"As being married is one of the criteria of employment, we are announcing for the last time that all the female and male colleagues have until September 21 to go ahead … Read More
When “I Do” becomes “You Will”
Love Buzz tends to have a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted slant, but we like to address serious topics from time to time. Marriage and relationships can be weighty issues, you know?
Reuters recently reported that close to 4,000 women have been forced into marriage in the U.K. and the government is cracking down.
Apparently, forced marriage is a serious problem, and as we can imagine, difficult to identify due to fear and secrecy. In fact, it’s become such an issue that the government has dedicated a division, the Forced Marriage Unit, to unearth the troubling situations. In many cases, … Read More
Lawmakers criminalizing the practice which is currently a civil offense.
The British Tory Party is thinking about possibly investigating whether it would be feasible to make forced marriage illegal. You know drawing a line in the sand, “Across this line you do not…” The proposed proposal would make forced marriage a criminal offense, possibly. They also would consider a law that requires a minimum age of 21 for people coming to the UK for the express purpose of getting married. This could break a long tradition of using younger sisters in political marriages.
In order to avoid the appearance of prejudice, … Read More
