Animal Bordellos - yep! or should I say yip!!!

a Danish animal owner offers his horse to a Danish journalist claiming to be interested in animal sex.

Warning: You might want to skip this if you're sensitive. Or enjoy Danish dairy, bacon or ham.

Okay, a cut below what's usually onsite here, but I found this interesting, in terms of the culture watch...in Scandanavia, where gay marriage is legal, so is bestiality. And why not? Isn't it just another `life choice'?

From there it's only a hop skip and a jump to Animal bordellos .

Apparently, there is a large - er- market in animal bordellos in Denmark that draw foreign clientle, including many from Norway, where this article originated. Both countries have loopholes in the laws that make such establishments perfectly legal.

The one prohibition either Denmark nor Norway on sex with animals is that the animals do not suffer.

I suppose it all comes down to your definition of suffering...

On the Internet, Danish animal owners advertise openly that they have sex with animals for sale, and it's pefectly legal, so there's no intervention from police or other authorities, Danish newspaper 24timer reports.

In interviewing the animal owners, the newspaper was told that the animals involved have many years of experience and that the animals themselves wanted sex. The cost to the client varied from DKK 500-1,000 (about $85-$170 American).

What I want to know is, who asked the animals if they wanted sex with humans? And did the animals talk back in Danish?

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority's section chief for animal welfare, Torunn Knævelsrud, could not rule out that such a bordello could be legal in Norway as well.

"It is difficult to say yes or no," Knævelsrud told Aftenposten.

As long as the basics like shelter, feed and care are in place, and there's no evidence of injury or suffering to the animal, an animal bordello is pefectly legal in both Denmark and Norway under existing Norwegian law.

Incidentally, Norway is one of those enlightened countries where shehita - Kosher ritual slaughtering - is outlawed becaused of `cruelty'!

"It could be that the animals don't really care," Knævelsrud said. "But I think it is in the nature of the case that animals will often be victims of injury, stress or suffering in connection with sexual acts with humans. Either that they are held fast, or frightened, or suffer pain or physical injury," Knævelsrud said.

A new Norwegian Animal Protection Act is being considered, and there have been proposals from the Norwegian Animal Welfare Alliance among others, that sexual intercourse with animals be forbidden.

"The acts provoke moral disgust. The question is whether immorality should be made illegal. The FSA group discussing the new animal protection act has been in disagreement about this," Knævelsrud said.

According to the Danish 24timer report, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes and Norwegians visit the Danish bordellos, and a web site devoted to bestiality claimed that many of Denmark's animal sex clients stem from Norway.

A farmer who sells animal sex said he is extremely surprised that foreigners are ready to travel so far for it.

"But the clients tell us that it is much simpler to buy animal sex in Denmark than in their own country," a horse owner from Nord-Jylland told the newspaper.

A new report from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo showed that Norwegian veterinarians are aware of at least 124 cases of animal sex abuse in Norway. The paper reports that 22 percent of Norwegian veterinarians suspect or are sure that they have treated animals that have been sexually abused by humans.

I am NEVER eating anything originating in Scandanavia again. Period!