Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the minister for communications, has urged Ghanaian women who are forced to engage in oral or anal sex with their partners to report them to the police.
She claimed that the unnatural carnal knowledge that the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 seeks to outlaw also affects these women.
She claims that Act 29’s Section 99, which the anti-LGBTQ+ movement is criminalizing, is gender neutral.
“And so for the avoidance of doubt and for the information of Ghanaians oral sex, anal sex, regardless of whether it is between man and woman, man and man or woman and woman is illegal under our law,” she stated.
The call was made by Mrs. Ursula Owusu on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, following the second reading of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 in Parliament.
“And so if there is anybody who is practising oral sex or anal sex today, on a man or a woman, please note that what you’re doing is against the existing law of this country because it is unnatural.”
“I will urge any woman, any young girl, who is being subjected to any such practice under the guise of heterosexual sex to know that what she is being asked to do is against our law and to seek help from the police to stop that from happening,” Ursula Owusu Ekuful stated.
Oral, anal, and the use of sex toys, according to the Communications Minister, are all forms of unnatural carnal knowledge that need to be recognized as such in order to enforce laws against them.
Ursula Owusu Ekuful claims that women and young girls suffer in silence, are subjected to sexual practices they do not like, and are threatened with severe penalties, including losing their marriages, if they refuse.
“But I want all Ghanaian women to know that we have a law today that protects you from non-consensual sexual acts that flout our laws.”
“And so if you’re being asked to perform oral sex or anal sex and you don’t like it, say no if you don’t like.”
