Sweden proposes ban on sex with animals

that will sure take the pressure off tonight when the hubby gets home (wink, wink) ;-)

Sometimes my wife can be a real animal. Not complaining.

Just the warm socks left then...

Thats the Swedish porn industry out of business then.....

Then the human race in Sweden is going to die out pretty fast. We are nothing more animals if one follows the thinking of biologists like Richard Dawkins to their logical conclusion. I guess what this law is meant to criminalise is inter-species sex. But then what will happen to the frustrated dog trying to hump a person's leg?

Will Swedes still be able to have sex with Norwegians?

Even if you use a condom, and it is consensual?

What if it was claimed that the animal had sex with a person?

Will Bill Clinton's definition of sex be a sentencing factor?

So many questions to answer!!!

The Swedish Democrats are going to be fuming! How dare anyone come in and try to ban an age old Swedish tradition.

Just legalize prostitution and people have alternatives.

Thank you all for your comments, they left me in tears from the laughter. :)

Will Swedes still be able to have sex with Norwegians?

Why would you want to? They're even more boring in in bed than the Swedes, and that takes some doing......

deviancy is alive and well and bleating and mooing and barking mad.

Is this normal practise all year around or just mid winter, when it's dark?

Hej raring får! Jag har en tolv tums penis!

So a puppy is just for Christmas then :o

Is this in preparation so the Svenska Polis can charge Julian Assange with another ficticious crime....

"So a puppy is just for Christmas then :o"

No! With luck there'll be some left for Boxing Day....

You mean you have to ban this activity to stop it? Sick.

"....perform sexual actions on horses or cows, which is not natural behaviour for the animal and isn't ethically justifiable..." Is it perfectly acceptable for humans? As much as the thought sickens me, I'm having great difficulty keeping a straight face reading this article...

@Social Hipocricy: LOL

The comments here are even more fun than the article

Some of the Swedish folk should get into town more often!

Does this mean the population of Svenssons and Ericssons will decline rapidly?

This kind of shows how civilised Sweden really is... . using animals for people's pleasure like an accessory.

Perhaps that's the real reason a Moose recently got stuck in a tree.

I have not heard any complaints from the animals...and don't they taste better when they are happy?

@ Gamla Hälsingebock

typical comment from you. I guess we know where the "goat" part of old goat came from.

Really? Wow!

Oh dear!

Does anybody want to buy a herd of goats?

Exactly, Robinhood, I also predict a steep price drop for sheep...

Now I understand why hunting is so popular here!

All those men heading off into the woods..wounding the animal first so it cant escape...

I guess one this is banned the number of hunters will drop quite a lot

It is all bizarre !

First , it is amazing that Sweden , which has a lot of laws that protect animals and human rights had somehow forgotten to have a law that prohibits bestiality.

Second , in the liberal world we live in , one wonders if Eva Eriksson can ever prove that "animals are harmed " when they have sex with humans . . Someone might argue that eating meat harms animals more than anything else. I hear the words "freedom" and "love" being used a lot here .

Thirdly , it is dissappointing to notice that there is not one single intelligent comment on the topic . Most comments are actually stale jokes that look like they were sent in from a zoo .

Is this 2011 ?

what does this say about this country when you have to make this a law? How would this be policed? Its an outrageous thing for a minister to be even wasteing time on,is there nothing more important requiring your input?

Oh dear.... I am just waiting for someone to say that it is the immigrants fault.

@hjoian , it says a lot when a country forgets to make a law that forbids humans to have sex with animals . Remember that Sweden has a law that forbids adults to make a living out of provinding sex to other adults who prefer paying for it.

Remember that Sweden has laws that forbid a man or a woman to marry more than one wife or one husband at a time

Remember that Sweden has a law that forbids transporting pigs in vehicles for more than 8 or so hours . Remember that Sweden has laws that Sweden has laws that forbids a pig farmer to slaughter his pigs using anything that is not recommended by the government .

If bestiality is classified as a social abomination - an offence agianst nature , why shouldn`t be illegal ?

If you begin by asking how a law is going policed , you will end up with no law.

I am really distraught now!

Did you see her...in the picture?

She is third from the right... the tall, light skinned one...

did you see her erect...ears?

Did you see her flared nostrils?

My God, she is sooooo hot!

Now they think of laws? Not fair!!!!!!!

It used to be illegal to have sex with animal. But the it was baked-in with the law against sodomy/homosexuallity so when they decriminalized homosexuals in the 40's they automatically decriminalized bestiality too.

I guess until now sex with animals have not been seen as a big problem especially since cruelty to animals has been criminalized since way back. But since it is kind of hard to know if having sex with a horse or a dog always harms the animal and in turn is considered "cruel" they think it is best just criminlized all sex with animals even if they can not prove that animal have been harmed.

"when they decriminalized homosexuals in the 40's they automatically decriminalized bestiality too"

Oh dear !

@Gamla Hälsingebock

The second from the left rings my cow bell. Want to meet up for a foursome while it's still legal to roger a cow?

@ Gamla and RobinHood

You guys are just sick! The second one from the left is a real cow. Now the one on the far right, on the other hand, is a likely looking lass.

My Rent A Goat business won't succeed then! Looks like it'll be back to Roger the cabin boy!

Can we get together and buy the herd?

Then we could try them out...so to speak and award a Blue Ribbon to the winner.

Also we could form a dairy cooperative and use our experiences with them as advertisements for dairy products.

Any ideas for slogans/logos, etc.. LOL

Is that where clotted cream comes from?

And now we come to a new beginning.

No human females have posted their desire to be penetrated and filled by a large phallus, only found on farm animals.

Why is that?

Aren't there any feminists out there wanting to be equal to men in everything?

Ladies?

Please reply...

Let's end the day with a post orgy barbeque and prove you can in fact have your cake and then eat it.

I feel a song coming on........

"Why don't you build me up......... Buttercup"

Political Correctness gone mad!!

Thursday night the US Senate approved a bill that would (among other things) repeal the ban on both sodomy and sex with animals for the US Military (Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice). It still has not been approved by the House of Representatives. If the House approves it will need to be signed by the President.

Does the ban include other animals apart from the obvious. Are mosquitos and caterpillars and fish also now taboo for the romantics who are hungry for something different in their lives. And what are the penalties likely to handed down to someone caught 'in flagrante delicto' with his neighbours gerbil. There are many questions... Does it mean full penetration or can kissing and fondling be considered only a minor offence ... Does it only include animals under 18....

John.Smith

Oh dear.... I am just waiting for someone to say that it is the immigrants fault.

The usual suspects!

How can a civilized Christian nation decriminalize sex with animals?

This makes Sodom & Gomorrah sound like holy places to migrate to & start a family.

I say re-instate the 1940's law, after all we can't discriminate against the few in favour of the other sick'os !

I was a bit worried reading the article that there was a exemption for kiwis as sheep and goats were not mentioned! LOL

the homosexuals should be protesting this as it is a curb on their freedom, it is a step backwards for them, the thin edge of the wedge is being squeezed out.

maybe if bestiality is outlawed they could be next. perhaps one could get written permission from your animal the same as they do!

QUOTE from above: "Thirdly , it is disappointing to notice that there is not one single intelligent comment on the topic . Most comments are actually stale jokes that look like they were sent in from a zoo ."

Seems somewhat insulting to zookeepers around the world, but, here goes with a serious (hopefully) intelligent comment. Prepare to be bored (most of you):

In centuries past, before animal rights laws, the Swedish church ruled very strongly in this area of morality. Nearly all Nordic countries pursued the "Heidi" tradition of having only young girls and/or women take the families' animals up the to summer pastures. Beginning the journey in early spring, young women walked with a collection of cows, sheep and goats, often high up in the mountains.

Called vallkulla, fäbod kulla fäbod stinta, etc. were what the girls were called in Sweden and sætre jenta, etc. in Norway. These young women labored all day in near total isolation to care for the animals, often even gathering leaves from trees to feed them. Each morning and evening they labored to milk the animals. During the day, because of the absence of refrigeration, they labored to make butter, cheese and other byproducts from the milk. Sometimes there were other females living together, caring for many animals.

It was a blessing when boys had the courage to make the long journey up to the summer farm on weekends to play music and dance. Boys were usually forced to sleep in the attic or barn. Sometimes they were permitted in the cabin...probably where the custom of "bundling" originated and continued being practiced in early American history.

These women-only occupations were held in very high esteem among the rural communities, as very often a family only owned one cow or goat. Milk and its byproducts was the staple of rural life. Butter was too valuable to eat by the family and was usually sold. All but the wealthiest rural families mostly existed on a diet of boiled grains, barley and oats and cheese. The farm animals were seldom killed and eaten as they were too valuable.

It wasn't until the 18th and 19th century emigration to North America that the gender roles switched: men began doing the milking and caring for the livestock and women had ONLY to churn the butter, make the cheese, care for the vegetable garden, do the housekeeping and care for a dozen or so children (piece of cake).

My grandmother came about through one of these weekend assignations so I know they didn't dance and play music ALL the time during the summer farm weekends. So, if you want to learn more about the FUN side of this occupation, Google "vallkulla". Swedish artist Anders Zorn, among others, was fascinated by the life of these very strong and resourceful women.

No, I'm not female, but really do appreciate the girls of old (and new) Sweden. In fact I'm looking for a new one as I write.