Interestingly my impression is that it would be nice to move to Singapore just for the quality of life increase caused by the technocratic governance. But maybe I’m underweighting how valuable it is to be able to take psychedelics and have sex with your male lover as a man.
I would be surprised if you really were underweighting that; probably that stuff is really important for people who are into it. Rather, I think it all comes down to how much difference there is between laws and enforcement. I would imagine that if it’s actually dangerous to have sex with your male lover in Singapore in the privacy of your own home, that would be a deal-breaker for many people. But if it’s only a problem if you do it in public, then probably it’s not a big hardship.
Sounds very optimistic. I expect that in a country where male-male sex is illegal, gay and bisexual men are likely to suffer substantially from homophobia (whether institutional or cultural) even if the law is not enforced. There are also implications on transgender women, especially those who haven’t had SRS (apparently you can change your legal gender in Singapore iff you had SRS).
Not sure about anti-gay laws in Singapore, but from what I gathered from the recent trends, the LGTB situation is starting to improve there and in East Asia in general.
OTOH the anti-drug attitudes are still super strong (for example you can still get the death penalty for dealing harder drugs), therefore I presume it’s an even bigger deal-breaker giving the number of people who are experimenting with drugs in the broader rationalist community.
TBC when I say I might be underrating it, I mean that I might be underrating how much it matters to all the cool people who I would also want to move there.
Interestingly my impression is that it would be nice to move to Singapore just for the quality of life increase caused by the technocratic governance. But maybe I’m underweighting how valuable it is to be able to take psychedelics and have sex with your male lover as a man.
I would be surprised if you really were underweighting that; probably that stuff is really important for people who are into it. Rather, I think it all comes down to how much difference there is between laws and enforcement. I would imagine that if it’s actually dangerous to have sex with your male lover in Singapore in the privacy of your own home, that would be a deal-breaker for many people. But if it’s only a problem if you do it in public, then probably it’s not a big hardship.
Sounds very optimistic. I expect that in a country where male-male sex is illegal, gay and bisexual men are likely to suffer substantially from homophobia (whether institutional or cultural) even if the law is not enforced. There are also implications on transgender women, especially those who haven’t had SRS (apparently you can change your legal gender in Singapore iff you had SRS).
Yeah, fair enough. I’d ask people who live in Singapore (and ideally, who are also gay or transgender) what it’s like.
Not sure about anti-gay laws in Singapore, but from what I gathered from the recent trends, the LGTB situation is starting to improve there and in East Asia in general.
OTOH the anti-drug attitudes are still super strong (for example you can still get the death penalty for dealing harder drugs), therefore I presume it’s an even bigger deal-breaker giving the number of people who are experimenting with drugs in the broader rationalist community.
TBC when I say I might be underrating it, I mean that I might be underrating how much it matters to all the cool people who I would also want to move there.