Spain: 3-12 months prison for sex with animals (self.zoophilia)
submitted 2015-01-17 10:50:28 by zoozooz

Short English article: http://www.thelocal.es/20150116/spain-will-ban-bestiality-but-not-animal-fight

Spanish article: http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/16/54b8d933e2704e6e0a8b4572.html

Google Translation of the spanish article: https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/16/54b8d933e2704e6e0a8b4572.html

Reasoning behind the law in spanish: http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/13/54b53554ca47415c1b8b456c.html

Google Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/13/54b53554ca47415c1b8b456c.html

And yes, the reasoning is as atrocious as you expect. Don't even bother reading it.

Translated website of the lobby organization behind it: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coppaprevencion.com

Coppa is a collective of professionals and experts in the field of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, pedagogy and the field of human rights with the aim of favoring the defense and protection of communities, groups and individuals particularly vulnerable in Latin America. COPPA promotes and endorses bills, government programs and strategic actions from knowledge and experience.

The protection of vulnerable individuals and groups is our reason for being and work to ensure that human rights are really acknowledged in Latin America. So, focus efforts on obtaining lasting changes that prevent mistreatment or abuse exercised the most vulnerable.

TIL zoophiles don't deserve human rights and are not a minority that deserves protection.

Here is a translated text as an example of what kind of texts these people publish:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coppaprevencion.com%2Ffiles%2Fcoppa_texto_bestialismo_dra_ana_jacome.pdf

Notice the references to Miletski's work without actually referencing any of her actual work or conclusions.

PonySmoocher Equines! 5 points on 2015-01-17 13:35:20

Just say you were preparing the bull for a bullfight ("roughing him up a little") /s

[deleted] 1 point on 2015-01-17 13:35:25

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zoozooz 9 points on 2015-01-17 20:56:01

Nah, just say that you're not enjoying it but that you do it for the money, because you want to use the sperm to artificially inseminate cows because you want to sell their children to people who want to eat them.

Because then it's perfectly fine.

[deleted] 1 point on 2015-01-17 21:02:40

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[deleted] 2 points on 2015-01-25 22:26:07

These laws are so stupid in the sense that one can ride a horse naked (in private), groom a horse's butt, and force 2 horses to breed, yet one can't f**k them.

zoozooz 2 points on 2015-01-26 00:01:08

Of course it's stupid. Look at the stuff this COPPA organization argued with:

"the individual who incurs acts of bestiality moves from one type of sexual abuse to another and may be comparable risk of sexually assaulting an animal or a human, including a child."

or

Specifically, scientific studies submitted by COPPA indicate that zoophilia is most often between violent and sexual offenders. "They show very high levels of acts of bestiality in individuals who commit sexual crimes against humans,"

or

They also say they have documented cases of rape of women and children with the use of an animal, and cases of abusers who have trained dogs to sexual acts, combining these incidents with other physical and emotional assault their human victims.

or

"The proposals made by COPPA members of the Justice Committee to amend the Criminal Code are based on scientific knowledge and the type of specific acts, and include provisions for disqualification to the keeping of animals, the criminalization of procuring producing animals and zoo-pornography "they add.

and

The documentation submitted includes an analysis of research on bestiality, content from other studies in this area, letters of experts, examples of the presence of bestiality in Spain, and a specific proposal drafted by lawyers for typing practice sentences up to three years in prison, as well as amendments to ensure greater protection for children and other particularly vulnerable groups.

Coppa is composed of experts in psychology, sociology, criminology and human rights, which they consider "essential" criminalize bestiality in Spain and warn that not address this problem through public policy is a "negligence, not only with regard to the protection of animals, but also self-protection of citizens ".

If they knew what they were doing they would have never accepted any of that.

One could say, that's an excellent example of the concept of "garbage in, garbage out".