Editing History of zoophilia (section)

==20th-Century==
[[File:Édouard-Henri Avril (28).jpg|thumb|Plate XVII by Édouard-Henri Avril, ''De Figuris Veneris'' (1906)]]

On June 28, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted legislation that created a separate category in Paragraph 175 for "fornication with animals" and penalized with up to five years in prison.<ref name="an Unrecognized Problem in Animal Welfare Legislation">[http://www.tierimrecht.org/en/PDF/Zoophilia_an_Unrecognized_Problem_in_Animal_Welfare_Legislation.pdf Sexuality with Animals (Zoophilia) – an Unrecognized Problem in Animal Welfare Legislation ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221500/http://www.tierimrecht.org/en/PDF/Zoophilia_an_Unrecognized_Problem_in_Animal_Welfare_Legislation.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>

During the 20th century, zoophilia was legalized in the Russian Empire in 1903,<ref name="Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-siècle Russia">[https://archive.org/details/keystohappinesss0000enge/page/59 <!-- quote=Russia skotolozhstvo. --> The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-siècle Russia ]</ref> in Denmark (including Greenland and Faroes) on January 1, 1933,<ref name="Criminally Queer" /><ref>[http://www.thegranitetower.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=905 Animal Slaughter is Illegal in Denmark but Animal Prostitution Is Not ]</ref> in Iceland on August 12, 1940,<ref name="Criminally Queer" />  in Sweden in 1944,<ref>[http://www.inquisitr.com/163453/sweden-considering-ban-on-beastiality/ Sweden Considering Ban On Beastiality<!--sic--> ]</ref> in Hungarian People's Republic in 1961, in West Germany in 1969,<ref name="an Unrecognized Problem in Animal Welfare Legislation" /> in Austria in 1971,<ref name="an Unrecognized Problem in Animal Welfare Legislation" /> in Finland on January 15, 1971,<ref name="Criminally Queer" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://yliopistolehti.helsinki.fi/yl14art.htm#a6|title=Järjettömäin luondocappalden canssa|first=Pekka|last=Kilpinen|work=University of Helsinki|year=2001|accessdate=13 July 2014|language=fi|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320104934/http://yliopistolehti.helsinki.fi/yl14art.htm|archivedate=20 March 2007}}</ref> and Norway on April 21, 1972.<ref name="Criminally Queer" />