South Korea has finally thrown out a law enacted in 1953 that banned men from falsely promising to marry a woman to trick them into having sex. The penalty for breaking this law was two years in prison and a fine that came out to about $4,000 U.S.

The court overturned this law by saying it no longer reflected modern sensibilities and contradicted the government’s “constitutional obligation to aim for the equality of men and women.” The court went on to add that “the government should refrain from interfering in men’s sexual activities of tempting women…” Right on!

The decision is being met with mostly positive reaction from both the men previously convicted of this crime who will receive an automatic acquittal and possible state compensation and from major women’s groups like Korean Womenlink which agreed the law was outdated and said, in part: “It had not been a law that protected women’s human rights but a law that protected women’s chastity.”

But Korea isn’t the only Asian country that’s had archaic or strange sex laws. Here are some others:

In Tibet, many years ago, the law required all women to prostitute themselves. This was seen as a way to gain sexual experience prior to marriage.

The Asiatic Huns punished convicted male rapists and adulterers with castration. Female adulterers were merely cut in two.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

The T’ang Dynasty Empress Wu Hu passed a special law concerning oral sex. She felt that a woman pleasuring a man represented the supremacy of the male over the female. Therefore, she insisted all visiting male dignitaries show their respect by pleasuring her orally when meeting. The empress would throw open her robe and her guest would kneel before her and kiss her genitals.

In Nepal, Bangladesh and Macao it is against the law to view movies containing simulated lovemaking or the pubic area of men and women. The law also does not allow kisses to be shown in any film that includes actors from these three countries.

There are men in Guam whose full-time job it is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Why? Under the law in Guam, it is forbidden for virgins to marry.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband’s lover may be killed in any manner desired.

Most Middle Eastern countries recognize the following Islamic law: “After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh.”

(To read about these and other weird sex laws from all around the world, click here.)