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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 08:55 PM
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All Female Candidates Must Abstain From Sex For 10 Days Prior To Election
Soekarnoputri To Face Electoral Sex Query

UPI
May 15, 2009



Megawati Soekarnoputri

JAKARTA -- Indonesian opposition official Megawati Soekarnoputri will face a question about her sex life prior to the presidential election, an official says. Indonesian Doctors Association Chairman Fachmi Idris said IDI medical standards require all female electoral candidates to abstain from sexual relations for at least 10 days as part of the election process, The Jakarta Post reported Friday.

All candidates must undergo an examination by an IDI team of doctors to determine if they are physically and mentally capable of assuming a possible presidential position. In addition, Idris said female candidates are asked to abstain from sex for at least 10 days prior to that examination in order to avoid what he termed biased medical results. The IDI official did not offer additional details regarding what results would be considered biased.

Soekarnoputri is expected to be the lone female candidate taking part in Indonesia's July 8 presidential election. Soekarnoputri currently serves as the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.

The Post said all candidates are asked to only consume water while fasting for the day prior to the pre-election tests.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/15/Soekarnoputri-to-face-electoral-sex-query/UPI-56131242412581/">LINK

- Okay, all together now:

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!

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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 08:58 PM
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1. ... and we think that our country is screwed up?!?!
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:03 PM
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4. Well.... yeah,
...I s'pose we are. Just not that way.

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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 08:58 PM
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2. shakes head
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:05 PM
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5. Joins Solly....
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:01 PM
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3. OK, I don't understand. I can't even imagine what difference it would make.
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:07 PM
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6. Uhhmmmmmmmmmmmm......
...I got nuthin either!

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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:25 PM
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7. Okay, that's getting very, very obscessive and intrusive.
:wow:

I know that Patriarchal thought has it that any means of controlling women is okay, and even micromanaging women is okay, but that is really out of hand.

If they guess or think that she has had sex recently does that disqualify her from running? Will they publish it in the national media?

:wtf:

I hope she can tell them to go fuck themselves. Does that count as having sex right before the election?
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 10:39 PM
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13. And more to the point....
...what exactly does "abstain from sex" mean anyway? Being that Indonesia is a majority Muslim country, then I'd have to assume they mean heterosexual sex.

But what of masturbation? Same-sex sex? Bestality? Sex Toys? Or is this just a way that male politician's have created to keep their wives from running against them?

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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:26 PM
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8. Maybe it's a custom for Indonesian women to eat poppyseed bagels during sex.
They must abstain from sex so that they won't appear to be opium addicts in the pocket of big opium-pharma.
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 10:46 PM
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14. Ummmm....
...if you say so. But I don't remember anything about eating bagels in the http://www.spaceandmotion.com/karma-sutra-positions.htm">Karma Sutra {NSFW}.

- Of course they eat just about everything else.....
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:37 PM
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9. Wait....what?
:crazy:
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chatnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:43 PM
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10. Wait....
:wtf:
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:46 PM
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11. This makes no sense.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 09:52 PM
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12. I wish our politicians would abstain from sexual hypocrisy
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 11:04 PM
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15. Yeah, but Swampy.....
- sexual hypocrisy is all some of them have....




Swamp Rat, love the poster. And I'm lovin' me some 'o dat 'ol Vitter bling, bling!
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 11:10 PM
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16. Ewww
The checking of women candidates---How and with what? And who gets paid for a job like that? Pevs, that's who.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 01:16 AM
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17. What??????
Edited on Sat May-16-09 01:22 AM by JDPriestly
What kinds of medical tests are they doing?

Could a doctor please comment? What in the world is this about? How could having sex before a medical test affect the results?
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JackDragna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-16-09 02:04 AM
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18. What's the problem?
I've abstained for the last 10 years. Well, wait..it's been those last 10 years people figured out I'm worthy only of death. Never mind.
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