In Sweden, it is now legal to masturbate in public - as long as you are not targeting a specific person for your fantasy.
Long live Sweden. Such a openly courageous and intentionally hilarious proviso, which has since became a landmark ruling on the case of public sexual activity, is not possible in any other country except in my own, Sweden. This of course comes in a long line of similar such laws and rulings in the past, including having sex with mannequins, masturbating in theaters, etc.
The case in question that galvanized the law is the case of a 65-year-old who man had been charged with sexual assault after he was seen on 6 June removing his shorts and masturbating near the water’s edge. The district court of Södertörn issued a judgement in which it said that it “may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion”, according to the Swedish English-language news website The Local. Yet the court acquitted the man, and said the man had not committed an offence because he did not direct his activities towards a specific person.
This is logical. Should we adopt a similar policy on public sexual conduct worldwide?
christ...I really don't think it should be legal!!!
I reject the argument that he wasn't targeting it at anyone. If you do something like that in a public place you are de facto targeting the public imo.
On September 30 2013 23:03 vBr wrote: What.. As a fellow Swede, I'm gonna go ahead and vote no. There are some things that's better kept out of public.
Umm, it's just another social norm not to masturbate in public. No way should it have anything to do with the law.
In all seriousness, this is really challenging for any law makers, as it is much more a problem of common courtesy. But there is no law enforcing common sense, that however is a good thing in many other areas.
Im okay with it if youre partly secluded. I think sweden is also the country with the drive up brothel things with guards and shit near by. Something like that(with some tweaking of course) could work.
The guy was removing his shorts and masturbated near the waterfront, probably somewhere out of town and with almost no people around, Then some guy or girl accidently saw him and pressed charges and the judge let him go, wich is reasonable. No way you are allowed to walk around naked or masturbate in a mall or something like that.
Obviously if you're doing it to cause offence by jacking off in front of a school there is an issue but I strongly suspect that that is covered by other laws. With that in mind I see no reason why the act has to be illegal. A lot of people enjoy the outside and I see no reason why masturbating outside should be against the law but fucking your girlfriend against a tree when you're miles from everywhere is fine.
And it appears that Sweden’s prosecution service will accept the ruling, with public prosecutor Olof Vrethammar telling the Mitti newspaper that he wasn't planning to appeal.
“For this to be a criminal offence it's required that the sexual molestation was directed towards one or more people. I think the court's judgement is reasonable,” he said.
Yep, so if you're targeting a group, even a broad group like the general population of the area, with your act with the intention of indirectly involving them through them seeing you it's bad. If you're just enjoying the great outdoors it's fine. The ruling makes perfect sense.
Holy smokes. That is absolutely mind boggling. Sweden why you so silly sometimes "/
Just think about it as a parent, from their perspective. There young daughters ranging from 6-16 walking alone the riverbanks with there friends or whatever and seeing men masturbating (or females) it would scare them for life! Especially if the older generation where the most prolific people to do this. Can't see this doing nothing but harm Sweden's image >.<
I can understand how this guy was acquitted, but this can under no circumtances mean that it's generally ok to masturbate in public. What if children are at the scene? It should only be allowed in areas where no children are allowed if anything.
The general population in the west has some serious sexual suppression issues for I don't know what reason, but sweden keeps proving they don't let irrational opinions in that regard make the laws.
I think that if you are intentionally showing your dong to passerbys it's too much... But I see no issue masturbating in a public bathroom, outside in a field, movie theatre, or just anywhere where your penis/vagina is not exposed to many people who don't want to seewhere
Now that we are in a day and age where everyone is always busy, you should not be required to receive your secure release late in the evening when you're home. I hope other countries follow suit.
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