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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity (www.wearequeeraf.com)
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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'

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[–] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Niger has 7 children per woman.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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