Jealous husband? Could cost you 5 years in jail

**Celtic Druid** · 4th-April-2007

No, this is not a belated april fools hoax.

Jealous husbands may face trial in court

Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:49am

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law, the special prosecutor for crimes against women told a local newspaper on Friday.

Men who phone their wives every half hour to check up on them, constantly suspect them of infidelity or try to control the way they dress are committing the crime of jealousy, special prosecutor Alicia Elena Perez Duarte told Excelsior newspaper.

Those who stop talking to their wives, avoid sex or try to convince suspicious spouses they are "crazy" even if they are caught red-handed having an affair, are guilty of indifference, she said.

Men found guilty of jealousy or indifference could face up to five years in prison, the newspaper said. Mexico's individual states will determine the punishments, it said.

The progressive new law was passed this month to protect women from domestic violence.

In Mexico, about 75 percent of all murdered women are killed by their husbands, Perez Duarte said.

"If we do not stop this from the beginning, it turns into beatings, and the beatings turn into more beatings and rape, until it gets out of hand, and whoops, she died," she told the paper.

Perez Duarte said the law would be a weapon that women could employ to level the playing field with abusive men.

"Men ought not to feel discriminated against," she told Excelsior.

Perez Duarte said indifference, jealousy or lack of love were crimes against women just as much as physical violence.

"Jealousy produces a particular type of stress in the person that comes up against it," she said. "It is exactly the same. They are wounds, psychological scars identical to physical scars."

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...DS.xml&src=rss

**pjanus** · 4th-April-2007

Celtic,

There is a post on this under 'Feminist/ Misandry'

You will note that avoiding sex is also listed, which means that he could be forced to have non consensual sex (rape) or face five years in prison.

**Celtic Druid** · 4th-April-2007

Quote from pjanus

Celtic,

There is a post on this under 'Feminist/ Misandry'

Ah, I obviously missed that. Thanks pjanus.

**Celtic Druid** · 4th-April-2007

Quote from pjanus

You will note that avoiding sex is also listed, which means that he could be forced to have non consensual sex (rape) or face five years in prison.

Yes, this is utterly beyond belief. These Mexican feminist-facists have passed this draconian law under the ridiculous guise of protecting women from domestic violence.

This is what happens when women wield political power, they pass laws that oppress men and benefit themselves solely, something I feel is born of inherent moral corruptness. It's like expecting a wild rabid dog not to bite you.

**pjanus** · 4th-April-2007

Celtic,

As well as being oppressive, it's also designed to cause division and alienation, thereby destroying marriage.

Once institutions are perceived to be useless they will cease to be. Future generations, of both genders, will not be a happy lot.

**KellyMac** · 4th-April-2007

If there wasn't a marriage strike in Mexico, there will be now.

**Marx** · 4th-April-2007

It's odd, I find, that they would bring attention to a means of coercion that is primarily used by women, not men. Yet it will be men who pay while women are given their get out of jail free card, as ever.