SKorean men 'allowed to lie for sex'

27 November 2009 | 05:08:11 PM | Source: AFP

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A South Korean judge said female blackmailers also used a 56-year-old law to extort money from men by threatening to sue after sex. (File Getty)

A court in South Korea has revoked a law that punished men for conning women into bed by falsely promising to marry them.

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South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday put an end to penal code 304 under which offenders who deceived women "with no penchant for debauchery" could be punished with up to two years in jail.

The law placed unnecessary restrictions on individual rights and ignored women's rights to make their own decisions concerning their sex lives, the court said.

It also pointed out that the old law forced "traditional, male-chauvinistic morals" upon women by protecting only those the law deemed had "no penchant for debauchery".

"Those who have been punished in the past under the old law can now ask for re-examination of their cases so that their criminal records may be wiped out," court spokesman Noh Hee-Bum said.

Female blackmailers had also used the 56-year-old law to extort money from men, Noh said, by threatening to sue after sex, claiming they'd only gone to bed with the men after they'd been proposed to.

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28 Nov 2009 1:03 AEST

nick

From: melb

congrats

well done by the korean court its time women took responsibility for their own actions too. Its time other countries with repeal similar laws if they have them.

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