# WTF, Egypt? W...T...F?! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158 "2012-04-27T17:53:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/21 "2012-04-27T19:11:24Z")
Lighten up guys. A body’s temperature would only drop about 9 degrees in 6 hours. Anything after that would just be sick. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/22 "2012-04-27T19:13:20Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > For me, I suspend judgment until the smoke clears. Me too. Even the stories that don’t say it’s a fake are pretty thin on details. For example: [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/27/farewell-intercourse-law-women_n_1458379.html): > [@](#): > > The Egyptian parliament is allegedly planning to introduce a hugely controversial ‘Farewell Intercourse’ law that will allow men to legally have sex with their deceased wives for up to six hours after their death. > > This sickening law, which believes the ‘marital bond’ should still exist even after one of the partners have died, has been drawn up by the Islamist-dominated parliament but is yet to be passed, reports the al-Ahram newspaper. [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/tagblogsfindlawcom2012-legallyweird-idUS13513392520120427): > [@](#): > > The country’s Islamist-dominated government has introduced a law that would allow a man to have sex with his wife for up to six hours after her death, the Daily Mail reports. Yes, after her death. > > \ > > Egypt’s dead sex law can apparently be traced to a 2011 statement made by cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari. He believes that marriage is valid even after death, and according to the Daily Mail, that both men and women should be able to have intercourse with a dead spouse. [Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Egypts-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-DEAD-wives-branded-complete-nonsense.html): > [@](#): > > Alleged proposals to allow Egyptian husbands to legally have sex with their dead wives for up to six hours after their death have been branded a ‘complete nonsense’. > > The controversial new ‘farewell intercourse’ law was claimed, in Arab media, to be part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. > > Read more: [Egypt's 'plans for farewell intercourse law so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives' branded completely false | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Egypts-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-DEAD-wives-branded-complete-nonsense.html#ixzz1tGlaMJvM) Lots of weasel words in all of that: “allegedly,” “alleged,” “apparently,” “was claimed.” No-one has seen the text of the alleged law. No-one seems to have any actual sources. No-one can identify the actual politicians who are supporting this bill. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/23 "2012-04-27T19:21:37Z")
Let me know if it _is_ real, so I can drop the obligatory “yeah, because necrophilia _never_ happens in Western countries” thread-bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/24 "2012-04-27T19:27:13Z")
Super! Now all I have to do is get me a wife and then move to Egypt and then find an assassin. Anyone know what the going rate is for assassins these days? ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/25 "2012-04-27T19:46:38Z")
Please don’t think I’m an idiot for posting the story if it turns out to be fake (oh please, please be fake!). It’s just that I didn’t see it mentioned on the boards and I KNEW you guys would be all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/26 "2012-04-27T19:50:58Z")
Necrophilia: Crack Open a Cold One! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/27 "2012-04-27T19:54:17Z")
You guys are being pretty hard on Egyptian men. They’re sensitive, you know. Sometimes it’s just hard to let go. What I’d like to know is whether they are proposing a limit on the number of times you pork the corpse in that six hours. You know, so they can make the most out of a bad situation. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/28 "2012-04-27T19:57:49Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Necrophilia: Crack Open a Cold One! Not in Egypt - limited to six hours after death. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/29 "2012-04-27T19:58:09Z")
I think it’s fake. Either way, it’s still nasty. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/30 "2012-04-27T19:58:50Z")
Punchline to an old joke: “Dead? _Mon Dieu_, I didn’t know, I thought she was _American_!” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/31 "2012-04-27T20:08:24Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Necrophilia: Crack Open a Cold One! If that corpse is from the Rocky Mountains I ain’t touching that nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/32 "2012-04-27T20:21:43Z")
I ate a whole plate of Rocky Mountain corpse before someone told me it was testicles. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/33 "2012-04-27T20:23:26Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Lots of weasel words in all of that: “allegedly,” “alleged,” “apparently,” “was claimed.” Not to mention a major weasel-out: “…the Daily Mail reports.” Reuters should have some sort of automatic editing software that tosses any story with those words in it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/34 "2012-04-27T20:24:07Z")
> [@](#): > > If that corpse is from the Rocky Mountains I ain’t touching that nasty stuff. Dear God, sir, you aren’t suggesting that Egyptian men drink _Coors_? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/35 "2012-04-27T20:25:15Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Necrophilia: Crack Open a Cold One! Beauty! New subject: I thought Muslims (and also Jews) have fairly strict laws about contact with dead bodies and impurity? I may be wrong of course. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/36 "2012-04-27T20:26:08Z")
It doesn’t count if you’re only touching it with your dick. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/37 "2012-04-27T20:27:40Z")
Hey, don’t bring dead presidential US presidents into this. Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/38 "2012-04-27T20:28:30Z")
On the one hand, you got God, the saints, the Prophet and all the laws of decency. On the other hand, gettin’ some. And its guys making the decision. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/39 "2012-04-27T20:30:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Dear God, sir, you aren’t suggesting that Egyptian men drink _Coors_? That’s REALLY disgusting and horrible! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158/40 "2012-04-27T20:31:08Z")
For up to six hours after their death: Wife dies. Man may have sex with her at any time between TOD and TOD + 6 hrs. After time expires, man may never have sex with deceased again. -or- Wife dies. Man may carry on a normal sex life with deceased but mustn’t have intercourse for longer than 6 hrs. Stand Your Ground ain’t got shit on this law re unintended consequences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-egypt-w-t-f/620158.md?page=3)