On Tuesday the Upper House finally backed a 2008 Lower House vote in favour of the ban. "Indecent acts" with animals are now punishable with an 18-month prison sentence, and pornography involving animals is explicitly outlawed. While the Lower House voted unanimously in favour of the bill, in the Upper House there were some who spoke out against a law against bestiality - notably from the conservative VVD and Christian Democrat parties. VVD senator Sybe Schaap described the legislation as "unworkable", and the Christian democrats described it as "symbolic politics". Opponents of the ban were concerned that vets and farmers carrying out artificial insemination could fall foul of the law. The original term "sexual acts" with animals was therefore changed to "indecent acts". Hub The law was originally proposed by the Labour Party with the strong backing of the Animal Rights Party. It aims to put a stop to a flourishing trade in animal pornography based in the Netherlands.
On Tuesday the Upper House finally backed a 2008 Lower House vote in favour of the ban. "Indecent acts" with animals are now punishable with an 18-month prison sentence, and pornography involving animals is explicitly outlawed.
While the Lower House voted unanimously in favour of the bill, in the Upper House there were some who spoke out against a law against bestiality - notably from the conservative VVD and Christian Democrat parties.
VVD senator Sybe Schaap described the legislation as "unworkable", and the Christian democrats described it as "symbolic politics".
Opponents of the ban were concerned that vets and farmers carrying out artificial insemination could fall foul of the law. The original term "sexual acts" with animals was therefore changed to "indecent acts".
Hub The law was originally proposed by the Labour Party with the strong backing of the Animal Rights Party. It aims to put a stop to a flourishing trade in animal pornography based in the Netherlands.
