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Punished Thought

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Once upon a time, long ago in 2018 in the land of Uganda, the president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, actually attempted to ²ban oral sex. His premise was that the mouth was "only for eating." Well, that's actually true. You can eat out, eat well, and eat every day. In a pretty roundabout way, one could infer that this clueless tyrant was actually right! The same country was in the process of directing ISPs to block pornographic websites, notwithstanding the onerous and draconian nature of the enforcement of that law. Virtual private network services coupled with other "anti-snoop" software like the tor browser would make such policing untenable, unless one were to install monitoring software on each and every end-user's device (which actually failed in China after such an attempt was made).  These laws, if they can thus be christened, are driven by the narrow moral scope of religious leaders. Religion, mainly Christianity and Islam, plays an intrusive role even ...