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Sweden Mulls Ban on Sex With Animals

Bestiality law would forbid nookie with horses, cows

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 28, 2011 6:44 PM CST

(Newser) – Any Swedes with a thing for barnyard animals had better start thinking twice about it. Swedish lawmakers are talking about criminalizing bestiality again due to societal changes that make animal hookups easier. ”Today it is very easy, on the Internet and other places, to encounter animals for sexual intercourse and there are also many more reports of this happening,” says Eva Eriksson, a county governor. Bestiality was, oddly enough, decriminalized there in 1944, The Local reports.

Eriksson stresses that the law—which she's been working on for 2 years—does not pertain to animal mutilation, which is already illegal. And it wouldn't stop farmers from sexually stimulating animals for breeding purposes. ”This is about people who enter stables and perform sexual actions on horses or cows, which is not natural behavior for the animal and isn't ethically justifiable,” Eriksson says.

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Kookey90

Nov 30, 2011 1:00 AM CST

Sexual actions on horses or cows is just plain sickening and I don't have to be a Republican to figure that one out; I have no problems in banning this. But preventing me from having sex with my favorite sheep - Never!

Orion

Nov 29, 2011 7:21 AM CST

If Sweden is characterized by and Atheistic world view then how can they ban it? According to evolution we're just animals anyway so why not? This is one of the major problems with ethics and evolution. Hypocrisy.

toeser

Nov 29, 2011 7:13 AM CST

"which is not natural behavior for the animal" Really? I'm trying to picture sex between a woman and a cow or horse. Gymnastics must be involved.

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