By John Maloy and Douglas Gillison
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Legal aid NGO Cambodian Defenders Project on Monday condemned the draft law criminalizing adultery that was adopted by the National Assembly Sept 1. "[O]ur analysis of the law shows that women will be no better protected under this law than they were before…and in fact they may be in a worse situation," CDP Executive Director Sok Sam Oeun said in a statement. The law's greatest flaw is a provision stating that prosecution can be halted at the request of the adulterer's spouse, the statement says. Sok Sam Oeun said that because men are the primary earners in Cambodia, women will likely have to absolve a spouse they are financially dependent on, but men will feel no such compulsion about unfaithful wives. Retired King Norodom Sihanouk has also weighed in on the law, disparaging it in a series of postings on his Web site. In a statement posted Friday, Norodom Sihanouk said the adultery law, and another law limiting the speech of parliamentarians, have reduced Cambodia to the "great shambles of the new fatherland of Angkor."
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I've heard that a lot of "chumteav" have gone to Thailand to have sex with male thai prostitutes because they cannot get enough sex pleasure with their high ranking officials husbands.
Should they be jailed too.
Do any people know it's true or not.
I believe it's a true story.
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