Mating

A report prepared by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chair Lale Karab?y?k about "social deterioration" in Turkey during the 13-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has alleged increasing rates of homicide, sexual abuse, drug addiction and sexual assault incidents. 

In a village in the southern district of ?skenderun, a 14-year-old girl, Ö.B., was sleeping alone at home as 38-year-old crane operator C.B. was working at a construction site nearby.  

According to a Stanford university professor sex in the future will be practiced only for pleasure and not for reproduction purposes. Henley Greely a professor in genetics published a book titled ‘The end of sex and the future of human reproduction’, where he posits that within the next 20-40 years most people will stop sexual intercourse to procreate.

According to the Turkish Civil Code (TMK), any child who turns 16 can be allowed to marry if their family appeals to the family court for permission. In 2011 for instance, 20,000 families have gone to court demanding permission to marry their 16-year-old daughters.  

ISIS militants were issued new advice for the rape of sex slaves following a series of reported “violations”. The guidelines explain how the militants may treat their “sex slaves” in a fatwa issued in January as part of documents seized by US special forces

Saudi millionaire property developer Ehsan Abdulaziz, aged 46, was cleared of raping a teenager, aged 18, after claiming he might have accidentally penetrated her when he tripped and fell on her.

Here’s another story bound to generate a collective sigh by grown men, along the lines of “I wish we had had teachers like that at my high school!”

World Sexual Health Day was instituted on September 4, 2010, in an effort to generate discussion on issues considered taboo. It is hoped that in this way social awareness will be increased and sexual health will be promoted as an attainable and inalienable right.

Couples in Turkey will now be required to acquire a ?license to marry? before they can wed following a new cabinet decision.

?A person who applies for marriage according to the provisions of this regulation must prepare the affidavit and the license to marry,? according to an amended article that was published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 10.

A 36-year-old man in Macedonia, northern Greece, is facing charges for allegedly videotaping sexual encounters between him and his 33-year-old girlfriend without her consent and subsequently posting the illegal material online.

Cyber crimes officers are currently examining the suspect?s computer.