Supply and demand

Recently, the National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia condemned the Malaysian female school uniform (more specifically the white blouse) as being too darn sexy. Among other comments, the vice president of the association claimed that the blouses became a distraction to men whether they liked it or not and that it led to babies born out of wedlock and prostitution. Malaysian schoolgirls were also critized for using their darn sexy white blouses to "attract men to them" thus seeing them "getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things".

On the other hand, we have the MP from Pasir Mas, Mr. Ibrahim Ali suggesting that a large campaign encouraging women to accept polygamy be held to end the increasing problem of divorce in Malaysia, or in his very own words , "Such problems (divorces) happen because women cannot accept polygamy. From a preventive point of view, what about doing a big campaign so that women can accept polygamy?" He further added that ," Women did not understand that when they were pregnant for nine months, or had "problems" when they hit their 50's, their men still wanted to "have fun". So the man wants to marry again, and the wife gets jealous and asks for divorce."

Two seperate problems you say? Not really, my economics training instantly detected the two cases above as a classic case of mismatch of information with regards to supply and demand. Lets see, in case two, men are demanding more sex, and in case one, those young nubile high school girls in their darn sexy white blouses who are out there attracting men are in effect, supplying sex. So somewhat akin to frictional unemployment, the right sex is not being supplied to the people who are demanding it, thus leading to molest, premarital sex and divorce!! The way I see it, students who are attracting men by employing their wily charms as well as their darn sexy white uniforms should be made to marry men who "wanna have fun". This effectively kills two birds with one stone (the above idiom was not chosen for the sake of sexual innuendo....yeah rite). You see, such horny young females would most likely be more receptive towards polygamy because (and I'm taking an extreme leap of faith here by stereotyping them as such, but politicians do it all the time anyway) this might even give them the chance to engage in legal orgies! Plus, if they get married to said men wanting more sex, then the problem of premarital sex would also be solved because by then, all sex would be strictly marital and legally wholesome. Furthermore, the relatively young age of these schoolgirls would guarantee a safe period of around 30+ years before they start having "problems" in their 50's ( product has good shelf life)

So you see, there's no need to change the uniforms or hold campaigns to encourage polygamy, just set up a matchmaking service between schoolgirls in sexy white uniforms and older married men who wanna "have fun" and Malaysia will be a much happier place to live in. Make love not war as they say. Peace out!