March 28, 2024

Bestiality to be banned in Denmark

Denmark plans to ban bestiality – a practice that has long been illegal in other European nations.

Denmark plans to ban bestiality – a practice that has long been illegal in other European nations. Danish food and agricultural minister Dan Jorgensen said that the practice was harming animals and damaging the country’s image. Speaking in an interview with Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid, Jorgensen commented: “I have decided that we should ban sex with animals. That is happening for numerous reasons. The most important is that in the vast majority of cases it is an attack against the animals.”

“It is also damaging to our country’s reputation to allow this practice to continue here while it is banned elsewhere”, he continued.

There has been a significant rise in underground animal sex tourism in Denmark since its neighbours Norway, Sweden and Germany outlawed bestiality. A recent Gallup poll revealed 76% of Danes supported a ban on animal sex.

Bioethicist Wesley Smith criticised the motivations behind the ban, saying that it failed to acknowledge the impact of the practice on human dignity:  “Bestiality is so very wrong not only because using animals sexually is abusive, but because such behavior is profoundly degrading and utterly subversive to the crucial understanding that human beings are unique, special, and of the highest moral worth in the known universe”. 

Bestiality to be banned in Denmark
Xavier Symons
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