In 2001, King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch, reinstated for five years the umchwasho rite, banning sex for girls under 18. The move was ridiculed as old-fashioned and unfairly focused on girls, and the king himself was accused of ignoring it.
King Mswati III
Swaziland •Sex ban
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