I would like to refer to The Star's article entitled
"Blame it on boring sex". According to the article, Terengganu's divorcing rate is very high especially among the newly-weds and the State Religious and Information Committee deputy chairman Muhammad Ramli Nuh stated that it was due to body odour, humdrum sex and boring pyjamas. In fact, the state government is planning to invite cosmetic firms to introduce exotic and sensuous fragrances that can arouse sexual desire to curb the problem.
What a F***ing great idea of the state government in "solving" the problem!! I'm wondering whether our government is too rich to spend tax payers' money in such a way. Have the state government learn its lesson from the collapse of the Gong Badak stadium in Kuala Terengganu? The main reason why the people in Terengganu having a high divorcing rate is not because of body odour or whatever nonsense stated by the state government, it is the underlying perception of the people who bounded by extreme religious views for more than a decade. I'm not criticising any religion but anything that cross over the borderline will inadvertently lead to a negative impact.
One of my classmate from Terengganu told me that males and females have to queue up separately when they are buying KFC fried chicken in Terengganu. If males and females were separated from each other since they were born, how can they communicate well with each other when they get married later on?
Besides that, our country is also practicing an extreme censorship board on any movies or dramas. Not even a kiss on the lips is allowed to show to Malaysian audience!! I'm well aware of the government's concern on protecting our younger generations from pornography but extreme censorship will cause ignorance in sexuality, especially those poor villagers who can't afford to surf the Internet. The basic way of learning things is through observation and imitation. If young adults are completely isolated from any romance scene from movies or drama, how can they know what to do when they get married? A demonstration from parents? That's also one of the reasons Terengganu's citizens having humdrum sex which leads to high divorcing rate.
Therefore, the state government should try to change the mindset and practices of the people in Terengganu to mitigate the high divorcing rate instead of wasting money buying dozens of perfumes for them. At least, they should reduce the control on the daily social life of men and women so that they can get along well with opposite sex. However, this does not mean that I'm encouraging high exposure of pornographic scene or whatever. Okay, say whatever you want if you intend to twist the meaning of my post. After all, people seldom read my blog anyway...
