Dutch Parliament OKs Ban on Beastiality
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Dutch parliament voted unanimously Thursday to outlaw bestiality and pornography involving animals.
Sex with animals and the making of animal pornography now will carry a punishment of up to six months in jail under the measure.
Current Dutch law forbids bestiality only when animals are found to have been mistreated.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Animal pornography is explicitly forbidden in 80 countries and pornographers had lobbied fiercely against a Dutch ban, said lawmaker Harm Evert Waalkens, who introduced the measure.
"The Netherlands is now a magnet for perversities and we don't want that," Waalkens said.