Link: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/why-niger-explicitly-criminalising-asexuality-is-significant-to-everyone-regardless-of-identity/

To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'

lol what?

I don't want to have sex.

— Off with their heads!!

I expect it's about birthrates. That usually gets certain politicians to do stuff like this.

And yet, conservatives do not care to address the many concerns related to raising a child – such as rising costs of childcare, affordable housing, and lack of reproductive justice. They only seem to care about making everyone become a parent.

preach

Niger's high infant mortality rate is comparable to levels recorded in neighboring countries. However, the child mortality rate (deaths among children between the ages of 1 and 4) is exceptionally high (274 per 1,000) due to generally poor health conditions and inadequate nutrition for most of the country's children. Niger's very high total fertility rate (6.89 children born per woman, which is the highest in the world), nonetheless, means that nearly half (49%) of the Nigerien population is under age 15. School attendance is low (34%), including 38% of males and 27% of females. Additional education occurs through Koranic schools.

— Demographics of Niger (Wikipedia)

Welp, sounds like an absolute shit hole to live in based only off of this quote... 😕

Also dOn't HaVe KiDs iF you cAn'T aFfoRd tHem.

Sarcasm font is hard.

Looks like it's part of generally criminalising "LGBTQIA+ practices" so probably there's also some religious/conservatism aspects to it.