By Larbi Arbaoui
Originally published in Morocco World News
Taroudant, Morocco, June 27, 2012
The proposal to repeal the Penal Code
Article 490, which prohibits sexual relations outside of marriage does
not please everyone, and rather made so many gorges rise.
This proposal doesn’t provide a
solution, but creates more problems and paves the way to endless social
and ethical issues. Sexual freedom endorsed by few activists should not
be understood as a mere political card aiming to kindle the rough of
Islamist-led government. For human right activists, this provision of
law is an obstacle to sexual freedom, which – they believe – is one of
the freedoms that every individual has to be endowed with. But can we
just stop at that level?
Sexual freedom advocated by the
so-called human right activists is to be understood as an explicit
sexual liberation movement aiming to increase the acceptance of sex
outside social institutions, implicitly including heterosexual,
lesbianism and homosexuality. These proposals, which are in stark
contrast with Moroccan religion and culture, may lead other people to
claim public nudity as unalienable personal rights, the normalization of
homosexuality as an alternative form of legal sexuality and more likely
abortion will be legalized. Before you come down on the side of a
certain party, I would like to invite you to consider these facts, which
are the result of sexual intercourse outside marriage.
Every year in Morocco, according to
figures of the Moroccan Association of the National Institution for
Solidarity with Women in Distress (Insaf), quoted by AFP, more than
80,000 children are born out of wedlock. Such alarming figures of
homeless and abandoned children call into question the responsibility of
everyone and the role of family.
What future is there for babies who are
the result of a fleeting ephemeral pleasure? Who is to blame for
children who have no chance to have a social status or to be recognized
by their fathers? It is up to you to guess under what circumstances
these children will be raised and educated so that they can function
properly in their society.
Sexual freedom under the pretext of
securing individual rights is in collision with the requirements of
international human rights, which emphasize the respect of the
specificities of a certain nation. These claims are very dangerous to
the natural balance and stability of the society. Family is not only a
social pretext, under which sexual rapport is practiced legally, but a
social institution that affords protection and care for the babies and
also a cultural unit which teaches human values and beliefs to the next
generations.
Susan L. Brown from Bowling Green State
University found that children born to married couples, on average,
“experience better education, social, cognitive and behavioral
outcomes.” Any violation of family as a social and cultural unit is a
knockdown to the history and human values.
People who have no respect for the
family, social values and cultural considerations that characterize a
certain people are likely to be driven by their uncontrolled sexual
desires. I do believe, that sexual desires if not suppressed and
controlled outside a social pretext, that will protect both partners,
will naturally lead the whole population to chaos and will bring the
society to a moral decadence. At the absence of regulations and explicit
penal codes, such people, who advocate sexual freedom, will be immersed
in an extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures that may be the cause of
so many health complications and social disorder.
Originally published in Morocco World News
Taroudant, Morocco, June 27, 2012
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