Homosexuality is outlawed in Malaysia (as in quite a number of ASEAN countries), but that is not going to stop a gay and lesbian “travel” guide from attempting to spice up the supposedly hot gay and lesbian scene in Malaysia.

The guide in question is the Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and is the first of such guides for these countries given their stance against homosexuality. Not surprisingly, the editor of Utopia Guides hopes that it will foster greater acceptance of homosexuality in these countries.

But the more interesting thing is that the guide claims that Malaysia has the “hottest gay scene going” (based on surveys conducted from Singapore), even though Islam is the primary religion in Malaysia, and Islam is not supportive of homosexual relationships. In fact, gay sex is punishable by jail in Malaysia.

Anyway, attempting to foster greater acceptance of homosexuality is definitely something positive as it is a major step towards a more open-minded society. But whether the Utopia Guide really aims for something like that is another story. After all, there’s some real money to be made in such a niche.

[News via CANOE Travel]

Well, almost nobody in their right mind would dare say “horny” or “gatal” in public, but it seems certain ahmm… politicians are an exception. Mr. Abdul Fatah Harun, a MP from Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party - an opposition party by the way - recently said that single mothers were “gatal” when asking a question about aid for them.

As expected, this caused an uproar in Parliament, which was made worse by the fact that he initially refused to withdraw the word even after condemnation by the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Sharizat Abdul Jalil. Let’s also not forget the fact that Mr. Harun hails from an Islamic-focused opposition party.

Truthfully, I’m not sure whether Mr. Harun meant to be funny or politically imbecilic. Women make up a large percentage of voters, no matter the constituency, so you do not need to be a rocket scientist to know that he has probably lost a significant number of voters - not that there were going to be many in the first place.

In any case, Mr. Harun did finally withdraw the world after continued protests, but the damage (potentially unrecoverable) has clearly been wrought.

Wow. I’m sure male high school students all around the world would scream for pornography as “punishment” for not completing homework. So, it’s surprising that the 13-year old students forced to endure this “punishment” informed their parents about it (yes, I’m only joking, sheesh!).

Anyway, enough of the bad jokes and back to the facts. It seems that recently, a government school teacher forced his students to watch a pornographic movie as punishment for not completing their homework. Both his male and female students were herded into an audio-visual room for this “punishment”.

At this point in time, I’m not sure whether the teacher is a sex maniac, or merely imbecilic. Porn as “punishment”? Did he think he wouldn’t be reported? What happened to the rod, the water bucket, or running around the track as punishment? Whatever it is, I really doubt I would even want to know.

Incest and rape come in many forms, some more extreme than others - though all absolutely heinous and unjustifiable. But few would have imagined the recent case of a father - having four wives - raping his 12 to 15-year old daughters.

But, we’ve heard such cases before. So, what makes this man particularly evil is that he used religion to convince his wives that he “owned” his children, thus giving him the right to have sex with them. At this point, I won’t blame his wives that were (for some reason or another) gullible enough to convince their children to have sex with him. According to The Star, the daughters were actually prepped by their mothers, with various reasons given to justify the act of incest.

In any case, I’m sure that those of us out here are relieved that the eldest daughter finally reported their father to the police, and can only hope that this man is given the harshest possible sentence in the book.

P.S.: I rarely throw around highly subjective words like “evil” in my articles or essays. Please tolerate just this instance.