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Sex with animals - another Swedish Model? 26 November 2008 by laura agustin
The Local is an online newspaper published in Sweden, in English, about Sweden. As some readers of this blog know, legislation that criminalises clients’ purchase of sex but not the sale of it is widely known as the Swedish Model. Two sides of a sociocultural conflict claim opposite effects for this legislation: that it solves the problem of prostitution and that it makes it worse. Research is brought forward to prove both sides and neither is persuaded of the other’s truth.
Sex with animals has, until recently, not been seen as a social problem like prostitution. The following news story illustrates the verging-on-hilarious ease with which THIS topic may be discussed publicly by a government Minister at the same time that talking about the sex industry, sex work and sex workers still causes deep frowns and anxiety for the majority of well-meaning educated Swedes.
My point is that ideas about sex are often not predictable within cultures, as another story, about naturists in Germany, showed. People often dismiss the Swedish law on prostitution as puritanism, but this is not sufficient and explains little. Please note the apparently progressive gender analysis and granting of agency and choice to the female dog who is penetrated by her owner.
Swedish bestiality ring exposed 11 Nov 08
A Swedish newspaper has exposed a network of self-proclaimed zoophiles who meet regularly in locations around the country to have sex with animals.
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