Good News for Penises in the Czech Republic
Gay Czech asylum-seeking penis blood no longer checked for pressure.
Um… okay.
RawStory reports that:
The Czech Republic is no longer using penis blood pressure tests to determine if asylum seekers are gay, the Czech Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Well, that’s a load off our dicks. Please, continue.
The EU’s leading human rights agency first criticized the Czech government last year for using “phallometric tests.”
The test gauges the subject’s level of sexual arousal while viewing pornographic or other images by measuring the volume or circumference of the penis.
Tuesday was International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström took the opportunity to again speak out about the practice.
The procedure is “a pure medieval method and a huge violation of the individual’s rights to privacy,” she said. “There is no question that this is politically unacceptable.”
Interior Ministry spokesman Vladimír Repka told Czech Positionthat there must have been a misunderstanding because the tests had not been used in the Czech Republic since 2009.
“They were previously used to supplement other sexual diagnostic tests, and in the future we count on just using these,” he said.
Okay. Don’t go there. Just stay away. For about a generation or so. Silly gay penis Czech pressure checkers.
Beware of quaint beautiful villages full of Czech penis pressure testers
