Minister for Communications Ursula Owusu Ekuful has urged Ghanaian women forced to perform oral or anal sex with their partners to report them to the police.
These women, she said, are also victims of the unnatural carnal knowledge that the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 seeks to prohibit.
According to her, Section 99 of Act 29 which the anti-LGBTQ+ 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.
Mrs Ursula Owusu made the call during debate on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 after it was read the second time in Parliament on Wednesday 5th July 2023.
“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,” she stated.
The Communications Minister argued that oral and anal sex and the use of sex toys are all unnatural carnal knowledge and must be recognized as such and enforce the laws of the land against these acts too.
According to her, women and young girls are suffering in silence and being subjected to sexual practices that they do not like and being threatened with all manner of punishments if they refuse including losing their marriages.
“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.”