Testing for gays - Arab style

Good grief. I thought I'd seen and heard everything. 

Not so long ago Kuwait announced that it would stop gays at airports and borders from entering their country, and since then has evidently come up with a gay test to weed out these destroyers of society. Of course the West just laughed at the idea of a gay test, but it looks like Kuwaiti's were serious. Yes, they seriously think they've come up with a way to detect gays. Never mind that it's a violation of human rights.

Some rumours circulated around the time claimed that the test is a simple one: the authorities bring a doctor who uses a chicken’s egg and tries to insert it up the anus of the person suspected of being gay. According to how easily this operation goes, the doctor decides if the person is gay or not. This rumour was never documented or authenticated, naturally. 

We call these tests in the gay society in the Arab world the “Shame Tests” — we all shiver under the possibility that one day we might go through it ourselves. 

“Anal tests are not a medical practice, they are not scientific, and they do not indicate any form of finding the true sexuality, or gender identity of any person,” Ahmed Saleh, a spokesperson of Helem — the only LGBT non-governmental organization in the Arab World — tells dailyxtra.com. 

“These tests are done in a barbaric way, and they are an invasion of privacy and personal dignity of any person that is subjected to it.” more

Better make sure you're regular if you're gay and going to Kuwait. A compacted or constipated bowel may well find you locked up for being gay darlings.