Sex News in Asia – 7/25/11

This article first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.



Singapore

• A 3-member team from Sayoni, a queer women's group in Singapore, is in New York to present a report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the first time.


• What does it mean for the Singapore government to tell the UN that the "principle of equality of all persons before the law is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, regardless of gender, sexual orientation and gender identity" when the specific terms are not found in the Singapore constitution?


• Obedient Wives Club not taking off in Singapore


• We’re not selling fashion models: Raymund Ooi


• ‘Employment Act still excludes too many women’

Malaysia

• A 26-year-old transgender, who took her case to court after the National Registration Department refused to update her name and gender on her identity card despite having undergone a complete sex reassignment surgery, has lost her case. Same story in Yahoo.


• Cash for newborns in Penang

The Philippines

• Ladlad, a LGBT political party, has called the regulation which bans gay and lesbian prison wardens from frisking and conducting strip searches on jail visitors of the same sex “a clear case of discrimination”.

India

• Indian women alter SlutWalk to better match country’s conservatism


• A spate of exceptionally brutal rapes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked India. Many of the victims were young girls.


• India advances injectable vasectomy for men


• Kashimir: Obstacles continue for women reporting rape


• Research has cast fresh light on the massive and increasingly alarming phenomenon of sex selection in India


• A New Pilot For Woman-Centred Midwifery in India

China

• As China's gay population is hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, senior Chinese health officials, representatives from civil societies and other delegates met to discuss a new five-year strategy to scale-up HIV prevention programmes and treatment, and promote community-based organisation participation.

Taiwan

• '500,000 abortions performed in Taiwan last year'

Japan

• You have to go a long way to see animations in which a girl takes the lead – to Japan, in fact.

Pakistan

• Killing of infants on the rise in Pakistan

View last’s week Sex News in Asia here.

Disclaimer: Some of these media reports may portray sex and sexuality in a negative light. I am merely re-reporting them and may not always agree with the reports or opinions expressed.

Dr. Martha Lee is Founder and Clinical Sexologist of Eros Coaching. She is a certified sexologist with a Doctorate in Human Sexuality. She provides sexuality and intimacy coaching for individuals and couples, conducts sexual education workshops and speaks at public events. For more, visit www.eroscoaching.com or email drmarthalee@eroscoaching.com.