So I've read...

• I decided to observe what The Star gathers from Harian Metro from last month till today (3rd June).
• There are 34 days from May 1st 2010 - June 3rd 2010.
• Out of the 34 days, there are 5 Sundays which The Star does not have a "Other News & Views" column.
• Out of the 29 days with the "Other News & Views" column, Harian Metro was quoted in 25 days.
• Out of the 25 days which Harian Metro was quoted, sex-related news were quoted in 16 of those days.
• Translation: 64% of the news quoted by The Star from Harian Metro are related to sex.

Man assaults girlfriend over alleged affair
Other News & View
Compiled by IZATUN SHARI, WINNIE YEOH and A.RAMAN

SUSPECTING his girlfriend was having an affair, a man allegedly assaulted the 23-year-old with a steering lock and belt while they were in a car, reported Harian Metro.

Police sources said the assault continued in the woman’s house after he sent her home.

The man even threatened to slash his girlfriend’s hands with a knife in the Wednesday incident at 6pm in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

The attack allegedly started after the man questioned the girlfriend about her suspected affair.

Each time he was not satifisfied with her answers, he hit her.

He attacked his girlfriend with a knife in her house, punched her in the abdomen and pushed her against the wall.

He then warned her not to lodge a police report.

The daily also highlighted a report on another man who allegedly hit his wife after she found out that he had brought his lover home.

In the Thursday incident, the woman rushed back to her apartment when she got a tip off that her husband had brought his lover home.

A fight broke out between the husband and wife.

Her husband then hit his wife on the head and kicked her until she fell to the ground.

The victim later lodged a police report over the incident.

In another incident, a jealous husband bit his wife’s hand and punched her in the forehead in Pandan Indah last Tuesday because she went out with her friends.

He had earlier attempted to grab her handphone because he suspected she was having an affair with another man.

The victim lodged a police report and her 24-year-old husband was detained.

Gays put themselves out on social media sites
OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
Compiled by NG SI HOOI, TEH ENG HOCK AND A. RAMAN


GAYS are using social networking websites such as Facebook to look for sex partners, reported Harian Metro.

The gay community reportedly use the sites to “advertise” their availability through groups such as Persatuan Gay Malaysia Kebangsaan (National Gay Association of Malaysia), Malaysian Gay and Gay African in Malaysia.

Some homosexual men even put up their mobile phone numbers, hoping to establish contacts with people with a similar sexual orientation.

The Facebook site for the groups also has links to other websites, where the main topics revolve around sex parties, gay groups in Kuala Lumpur, gay universities and even a gay vacation to Pulau Redang.

The newspaper quoted Pertubuhan Ke bajikan Sahabat Insan Malaysia (Sidim) chairperson Mohamed Hanafiah Abdul Malek urging the homosexual society to repent.

Lorry driver claims masseuse nearly ‘molested’ him

A LORRY driver claimed he was “almost molested” by a masseuse in Bedong, Kedah, recently, Harian Metro reported.

The man in his 40s, known as Mail, said his friend introduced him to the services of the single mother who conducted her business from home.

He said the woman in her 50s would conduct her massages in a room while her children were in the living room.

“I was told to come for massages three days in a row with each session costing RM30,” he said.

He suspected something was amiss when on the second day, the woman started massaging his private parts.

“She suddenly lifted my sarong and climbed on top of me. What is more shocking is that she wasn’t wearing any underwear,” he said.

Shocked by the woman’s actions Mail immediately shoved her away, causing her to fall. He put on his clothes and ran out of the house.

“I am angry at the woman’s action as she had tried to take advantage of her customers. She should have just provided massage services, not sex,” he said.

Mail did not return for his third day appointment.

“A friend told me that the woman only gave massages to men and she had been doing this for years. She is also reputedly very popular with men,” he said.

Pupils caught committing sexual acts
Other News & View
Compiled by ZALINAH NOORDIN, TAN SIN CHOW and A.RAMAN

THREE primary school pupils in Malacca were caught “imitating” sexual acts in their classroom, reported Metro Ahad.

More shockingly, the Year Three boys are now under suspicion of performing sexual acts with one of their female classmates.

Their exploits came to light on Thursday after a teacher, who happened to pass by their classroom after school, became suspicious on noticing the ceiling fan switched on despite the closed doors and windows.

The newspaper quoted a source as saying that the pupils suddenly dashed out before the teacher could inspect the classroom.

“The female teacher reported the matter to the headmaster, who advised the parents of the girl to take her for a medical check-up.

“The check-up revealed old tears in the girl’s private parts,” said the source.

Malacca police chief Datuk Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof said investigations were being carried out under Section 376 of the Penal Code.

The boys are now on police bail.

Two fall for bomoh’s virginity ‘restoration’ con

TWO 19-year-old girls who wanted to restore their virginity ended up being tricked into having sex with the bomoh — at the same time.

Harian Metro reported that the girls were introduced to the bomoh, who is also 19, by a friend in Johor Baru recently.

The bomoh, who called himself Tok Muda, claimed he could tell if a woman was still a virgin and that he could also restore lost virginity.

A source told the paper that the girls expressed interest in the bomoh’s service.

They later met him at a holiday resort where they were told to undress.

“The bomoh then told them that they could get their virginity restored if they both had sex together with him.

“The girls initially refused.

“But the bomoh threatened to distribute pictures of them undressing that he had taken earlier,” the source added.

The girls lodged a police report later after they realised that they had been cheated.

Ledang OCPD Supt Harun Idris confirmed the incident.

He said the suspect had been arrested in Johor Baru.

He added that a RM900 gold chain, which the suspect had taken from one of the girls as travelling expenses, was also recovered.

Vice rings pimping tomboys to customers in their 50’s

TOMBOYS are fast becoming the choice offerings of syndicates operating cheap prostitution services to cater to “customers” in their 50s, Harian Metro reported.

Many tomboys, it said, often seen in the Chow Kit area, were constantly approached by pimps who offered them jobs as prostitutes.

“Normally, the pimps will approach them and ask them if they were interested in ‘selling gold’,” the daily said, adding the prospective clients were usually already holed up in hotels nearby.

A tomboy, who wanted to be identified as Man, said she was shocked when she was approached by pimps.

“I did not know what ‘gold’ meant at first but when the pimp asked if I wanted to ‘sell my body’, I understood that it meant private parts,” she was quoted as saying.

Man said she once asked why these clients preferred masculine-looking women and was told they reasoned that the risk of contracting HIV was lower if they had sex with tomboys, rather than prostitutes who had many clients.

“At their age, they are very bored with women who are feminine and prefer more violent sex acts,” she said.

Punches fly in wife-girlfriend catfight at hospital
Other News & View
Compiled by NG CHENG YEE, ZANI SALLEH and A.RAMAN

A 46-year-old housewife and her husband’s girlfriend got into a scuffle in front of patients at the ward of a private hospital in Subang Jaya, reported Harian Metro.

In the 9.45pm incident on Tuesday, the 51-year-old husband had brought his girlfriend, who is in her 30s, to see a relative being treated at the hospital but ran into his wife, who was visiting at the same time.

Police sources said the man, who is retired from the army, has had other affairs before.

“Overcome by anger, the wife then began scolding the girlfriend.

“The two women not only shouted at each other but threw punches and were pulling at each other’s hair,” said the sources.

It is understood that during the fight, the man hit the wife in the face with her shoe, causing her to bleed.

The wife received two stitches for her facial wound and later lodged a police report.

The Malay tabloid also highlighted a case in Bertam Ulu, Malacca, in which a man savagely mutilated his wife’s private part with a knife after hearing “voices” telling him that she was having an affair.

The husband, an army sergeant, attacked the woman while she was cooking at around 10am on Tues day.

The wife, who is a nurse, was in pain and bleeding for 30 minutes in front of their four-year-old child before she was sent in an ambulance to hospital.

She received more than nine stitches to her private part at the hospital.

The man, who did not resist when authorities came to the house, had offered to send her to hospital but she refused.

Speaking to reporters, the nurse said she had noticed her husband behaving strangely and that last week, he had tried to strangle her twice