The EU's leading human rights agency has sharply criticised the Czech authorities for using a controversial method of testing whether homosexual asylum seekers are genuinely gay. The Fundamental Rights Agency said the Czech Republic was the only EU country still using a "sexual arousal" test. Gay asylum seekers are hooked up to a machine that
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What kind of pseudoscience is THIS mess?! The "supervision of experts"? Experts in what? always with the asylum seeker's full written consent. Yeah, because no one would feel coerced by this...
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Hey, it's a simple choice! Either submit to the test, or be sent back to a country where your life is in danger. What's coercive about that? :DDD
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The test, which is performed by a sexologist, consists of showing the homosexual asylum seeker heterosexual pornography while measuring his "physical reaction," according to the report by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
It is performed when the authorities doubt the credibility of men who are seeking asylum in the Czech Republic because they would be persecuted for their sexual orientation in their home country.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/czech-republic/101209/homosexuality-test-gay-asylum-seekers
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THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY.
Anyone here listen to the Bugle? Loved their take on this story.
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that is, yeah. what the ever-loving fuck.
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Yeah, no, try a huge and ridiculous invasion of privacy.
Also, practically, do bi people not exist in their world?
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I think it's just an issue of an extra "/" at the end.
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