Are you worried about the scourge of sex toys undermining Malaysia’s moral values? Don’t worry, the country’s Home Ministry wants you to know they’re hard at work tackling this serious issue.
In case you don’t believe them, you can check out these heavily blurred pics of ministry officials soberly standing in front of hundreds of recently seized sex toys ranging from sex dolls to sexy body pillows.
The photos are from a press conference the ministry held on Tuesday regarding the seizure of over 1,000 sex toys from a single home in Kota Warisan, Sepang, that took place on December 19.
According to the ministry, the sex toys are collectively worth more than Rm 115,000 (US$25,000) and were being stored at the house before being sold online. Most of the products were manufactured in Thailand and China.
The secretary of the Home Ministry’s enforcement and controls division, Nik Yusaimi bin Yussof, said that the toys were banned under Section 7(1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act of 1984 for eroding the nation’s moral values.
“The ministry is worried that the use of sex toys could affect the morality of Malaysians and, if uncontrolled, could lead to a decline in moral values and other social problems,” he told the media at the press conference.
Section 7(1) gives the ministry “absolute discretion” to ban media that is “in any manner prejudicial to or likely to be prejudicial to public order, morality, security, or which is likely to alarm public opinion, or which is or is likely to be contrary to any law or is otherwise prejudicial to or is likely to be prejudicial to public interest or national interest”.
The seizure also led to the arrest of a 57-year-old Malaysian man who was charged at the Sepang Magistrate’s Court on February 2 under Section 292(a) of the Penal Code for distributing and selling obscene items.
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