Loneliness. Fear of catching HIV. Kink. No matter the reason for why someone might want to hump a sex doll, the Zambian government is against it. In fact, Zambia’s politicians are so horny to put a stop to the import and use of such sex toys that it’s become a top shelf political issue.
Zambia’s government has always taken a hard line against anything that rubs up against their conservative christian sensibilities. Homosexuality, for example, is punishable with up to 14 years in prison. Law enforcement in the African nation is quick to clamp down on anyone who might dare to step over the line of its ethical norms. As such, you won’t find any shops selling sex toys, at least not out in the open. Most of the hardware designed to turn reproductive bits into an amusement park have to be bought online before being discreetly imported into the country.
The logic for keeping adult toys and plastic pleasure partners out of the nation comes from the Bible, according to Godfridah Sumaili. She’s Zambia’s head of its recently created, totally-not-something-out-of-an-Orwell-novel Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs:
“Being a Christian nation, obviously we are anchored in Christian principles and one of the values is morality and ethics… The use of sex dolls is definitely in contradiction to our natural heritage and our principles. The law actually forbids anybody to trade (in) and to use such objects — and so this is why we are saying for Zambians that this is a very unnatural thing.”
It’s always great to see a nation using religious dogma to control how its citizens pleasure themselves or who they love to keep them scared and in line. Good thing that it totally couldn’t happen over here.
Image: Artem Kuznetsov, Russia – Own work, Public Domain, Link