Call for prison sex toys

15 March 2012 - 02:26 By www.newzimbabwe.com
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A Zimbabwean senator has called for prisoners in the country's prisons to be supplied with ''sex gadgets'' to reduce homosexual practices.

File Photo Picture: REUTERS
File Photo Picture: REUTERS
File Photo Picture: REUTERS
File Photo Picture: REUTERS

News website www.newzimbabwe.com reported that Sithembile Mlotshwa, an MDC senator, said during a parliamentary committee meeting on Monday: "In other countries they provide sex gadgets . and rooms where [prisoners] go and service themselves when the desire arises."

Maxwell Ranga, the acting justice and legal affairs secretary, reportedly rubbished the proposal, saying the government could not even feed prisoners.

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