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Intimacy Under Surveillance: Illicit Sexuality, Moral Policing, and the State in Contemporary Malaysia
HAWWA Pub Date : 2020-10-28 , DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341381
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif 1
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Malaysia’s Malay-Muslim majority adheres to heteronormative forms of sexuality that recognise marriage as the only means of securing access to lawful sexual intimacy. Islam, Malay customs (adat), and the Malaysian state impose strict sanctions on pre- and extramarital intimacy in its Syariah criminal laws. A Vice Prevention Unit responsible for moral policing is legally authorised to arrest couples who violate Islamic rules of behaviour, including sexual offences such as khalwat (illicit proximity)—a crime of passion punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. This article compares two khalwat trials in Kota Bharu and Kuala Lumpur’s Syariah court to illustrate what Peletz (2002) calls the judges’ “cultural logic of judicial reasoning”. In these trials, Syariah judges extend beyond a narrowed focus on gender to also consider cultural understandings of age, profession, family circumstances, and marital status, thus reproducing Malay adat understandings of intimacy, marriage, and personhood. In an effort to steer young couples away from forbidden sexual temptations, the Malaysian state liberalises access to marriage by recognising cross-border marriages contracted in Southern Thailand, offering financial incentives to young couples intending to marry and defending existing legal provisions allowing the marriage of minors. The Malaysian state’s mix of punitive, preventative, and pro-marriage policies, I suggest, are various ways of surveilling sexuality by bringing uncontrolled desires under the purview of matrimony, where it may find its lawful expression.



中文翻译:

监视下的亲密关系:非法性行为,道德警务和当代马来西亚的国家

马来西亚的马来穆斯林多数人遵循异性规范的性行为形式,他们承认婚姻是确保获得合法性亲密关系的唯一手段。伊斯兰教,马来风俗(adat)和马来西亚国家在其回教徒的刑法中对婚前和婚外亲密实施了严格的制裁。负责道德警务​​工作的副预防股在法律上被授权逮捕违反伊斯兰行为规则的夫妇,包括性犯罪,例如khalwat(非法接近),这是一种激情犯罪,应处以罚款和/或监禁。本文比较了哥打巴鲁和吉隆坡回教法院的两次khalwat审判,以说明Peletz(2002)称法官的“司法推理的文化逻辑”。在这些试验中 伊斯兰教的法官不仅限于性别问题,还考虑了对年龄,职业,家庭状况和婚姻状况的文化理解,从而再现了马来人对亲密,婚姻和人格的理解。为了使年轻夫妇摆脱禁止的性诱惑,马来西亚政府承认在泰国南部缔结的跨境婚姻,从而使婚姻自由化,为打算结婚的年轻夫妇提供经济刺激,并捍卫现行法律规定允许未成年人结婚。我建议,马来西亚政府将惩罚性,预防性和亲婚政策结合在一起,以各种方式监视性行为,方法是将不受控制的欲望置于婚姻的管辖范围之内,在婚姻中可以找到合法的表达方式。和婚姻状况,从而再现了马来人对亲密,婚姻和人格的理解。为了使年轻夫妇摆脱禁止的性诱惑,马来西亚政府承认在泰国南部缔结的跨境婚姻,从而使婚姻自由化,为打算结婚的年轻夫妇提供经济刺激,并捍卫现行法律规定允许未成年人结婚。我建议,马来西亚政府将惩罚性,预防性和亲婚政策结合在一起,以各种方式监视性行为,方法是将不受控制的欲望置于婚姻的管辖范围之内,在婚姻中可以找到合法的表达方式。和婚姻状况,从而再现了马来人对亲密,婚姻和人格的理解。为了使年轻夫妇摆脱禁止的性诱惑,马来西亚政府承认在泰国南部缔结的跨境婚姻,从而使婚姻自由化,为打算结婚的年轻夫妇提供经济刺激,并捍卫现行法律规定允许未成年人结婚。我建议,马来西亚政府将惩罚性,预防性和亲婚政策结合在一起,是通过将不受控制的欲望置于婚姻范围内来监督性行为的各种方式,在婚姻中可以找到合法的表达方式。马来西亚政府承认在泰国南部缔结的跨境婚姻,从而使婚姻自由化,为打算结婚的年轻夫妇提供经济奖励,并捍卫了允许未成年人结婚的现行法律规定。我建议,马来西亚政府将惩罚性,预防性和亲婚政策结合在一起,以各种方式监视性行为,方法是将不受控制的欲望置于婚姻的管辖范围之内,在婚姻中可以找到合法的表达方式。马来西亚政府承认在泰国南部缔结的跨境婚姻,从而使婚姻自由化,为打算结婚的年轻夫妇提供经济奖励,并捍卫了允许未成年人结婚的现行法律规定。我建议,马来西亚政府将惩罚性,预防性和亲婚政策结合在一起,以各种方式监视性行为,方法是将不受控制的欲望置于婚姻的管辖范围之内,在婚姻中可以找到合法的表达方式。

更新日期:2020-10-28
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