Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MBABANE, Swaziland, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Swaziland's King Mswati III, who imposed a five-year sex ban on the kingdom's teenage girls, has dropped it a year early. The girls have had to wear large woollen tassels as a sign of their chastity since 2001. Advertisement The sex ban was imposed to fight the spread of HIV/Aids. Swaziland has one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, at almost 40 percent of the population. The king meanwhile fined himself a cow for breaking the ban by marrying again, a 17-year-old who became his ninth wife.
