cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/lgbtq_plus/p/1184160/why-niger-explicitly-criminalising-asexuality-is-significant-to-everyone-regardless-of-ident
To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about ‘traditional families’
I can understand why would someone want to criminalize homisexuality or transexuality. I think those reasons are utterly stupid and deeply immoral, but at least I can see the reasoning behind them. But asexuality?
Homosexuals and asexuals are functionally the same in that they don’t want to engage in reproductive sex. This creates a smaller tax base and must therefore be discouraged.
Niger has 7 children per woman.
That’s kinda a huge problem. So Africa much like the 1800s in first world countries, you’d have like 9 kids because maybe 3 would make it to 18+. When vaccines, antibiotics, ect were discovered suddenly only like 1 or 2 of these 9 kids died before 18. So we stopped having a ton of kids and had kike 1-3 typically.
In Africa while maybe being behind the are benifiting from medial advances and less kids are dying. But now because of that they’re still having 9 kids and they have no food or water because of overpopulation among other things.
Simple. They want to make it illegal for women not to have sex.