(Newswire.net — October 13, 2014) — Denmark is a country with some of the highest standards in the world concerning both humans and animals. Almost every household has a pet or two, and it is completely normal for typical Danish family to adopt stray dogs right out of the streets. So Danish people love and take care of their animals.
However, Denmark is the last Scandinavian country to pass a bill that bans sex with animals.
“The most important is that in the vast majority of cases it is an attack against the animals,” the food and agriculture minister, Dan Jørgensen, told Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid.
Sex between humans and animals is not a common practice, but it is not forbidden by law either, said Jørgensen, emphasizing that such legal liberty damages his country’s reputation.
However, according to a recent poll carried out by Gallup, 24 percent of the Danish population still support sex with animals.
The absence of a law on bestiality actually led to a growth in animal sex tourism and porn industry in the country.
In the recent years the European community is focused on the lack of law against intercourse between humans and animals in the animal welfare system of Danmark.
In a documentary shot by VICE in April, a Danish animal rights activist Karoline Lundstrom says she doesn’t think the Danish government is doing enough to protect the animals. “They need to do something to prohibit zoophilia in Denmark,
Sweden banned bestiality in April 2014, in a move backed by the country’s Rural Affairs Minister Eskil Erlandsson, who said that “there should be no doubt whatsoever that bestiality is unacceptable”.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government passed a bill on bestiality in Germany in 2012. Introducing the new law against the practice, she said animals should not be used “for personal sexual activities or made available to third parties for sexual activities … thereby forcing them to behave in ways that are inappropriate to their species.”
In US, there is no federal law which explicitly prohibits bestiality and sodomy, it’s a matter of state rather than federal jurisdiction.
However, filming and photographing human sex with animals is illegal in almost all states.