Thursday 4 February, 2010Finally, Dutch say animal sex illegal

AFTER two years of debate, the Dutch Parliament voted unanimously yesterday to make sex with animals a crime.

Sex with animals and making "animal pornography" now carries a penalty of up to six months jail.

Current Dutch law only forbids bestiality when animals are found to have been mistreated.

The pro-business VVD party and the Party for the Animals opposed the Bill but voted in favour anyway.