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*'''12 August 1940''' &nbsp;– The [[Kingdom of Iceland]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />
*'''12 August 1940''' &nbsp;– The [[Kingdom of Iceland]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />
*'''1 July 1944''' &nbsp;– The Kingdom of Sweden legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" /><ref>[http://www.equaldex.com/region/sweden LGBT Rights in Sweden]</ref>
*'''1 July 1944''' &nbsp;– The Kingdom of Sweden legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" /><ref>[http://www.equaldex.com/region/sweden LGBT Rights in Sweden]</ref>
'''7 October 1949''' &nbsp;– The [[German Democratic Republic]] is created legalizes bestiality in the territory.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals" />
'''25 June 1968''' &nbsp;– The [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] and [[West Berlin]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals">
'''25 June 1968''' &nbsp;– The [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] and [[West Berlin]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals">
'''7 October 1949''' &nbsp;– The [[German Democratic Republic]] is created legalizes bestiality in the territory.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals">
*'''15 January 1971''' &nbsp;– The [[Republic of Finland]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />
*'''15 January 1971''' &nbsp;– The [[Republic of Finland]] legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />
*'''21 April 1972''' &nbsp;– The Kingdom of Norway legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />
*'''21 April 1972''' &nbsp;– The Kingdom of Norway legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999" />

Revision as of 16:16, 22 January 2017

The timeline of zoophilia covers the history of zoophilia and bestiality among humans and non-human animals.

Before the Common Era

23rd millennium BCE

230th century BCE

2nd millennium BCE

18th century BCE

15th century BCE

  • c. 1,406 BCE  – The Book of Deuteronomy is written during this period and within the text it states the:

"Cursed be anyone who lies with any animal." All the people shall say, "Amen!"[2]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 27, Verses 21

13th century BCE

  • c. 1,300 BCE  – c. 1,201 BCE  – The Hittite laws are written for the Hittite Empire, which punished male bestiality with a pig, a dog, or a cow with capital punishment, while male bestiality with a horse or a mule only prohibited the man from approaching the king or becoming a priest.[1][3]

1st millennium BCE

7th century BCE

7th century BCE  – 5th century BCE

  • c. 700 BCE  – c. 401 BCE  – The Book of Leviticus is written during this period and within the text it states the following:

"You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion. Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves."[4]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 18, Verses 23-24

"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them."[5]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 20, Verses 15-16

6th century BCE  – 4th century BCE

  • c. 600 BCE  – c. 301 BCE  – The Book of Exodus is written during this period and within the text it states that:

"Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death."[6]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Exodus, Chapter 22, Verse 19

5th century BCE

"In my lifetime a strange thing occurred in this district: a he-goat had intercourse openly with a woman."[8]

— Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, Chapter 46, Section 4

1st century BCE

  • c. 27 BCE  – At the beginning of the Roman Empire, legal retribution for bestiality was required only for sodomy, under which bestiality was included.[1]

Common Era

1st millennium

8th century

2nd millennium

13th century

13th century  – 14th century

  • c. 1,250  – 1,350  – In the Kingdom of Sweden, the provinces of Dalarna, Uppland, Västmanland enacts capital punishment for those convicted for male bestiality were buried alive for both the perpetrator and the animal, while the province of Södermanland in the Kingdom of Sweden stipulates the male perpetrator could be either buried alive or burned at the stake.[12][11]

14th century

  • 1,350  – In the Kingdom of Sweden, the Country Law of Magnus Eriksson was enacted, replacing all provisional laws in the country with a national law (excluding cities). The law lacked canonical code, so the Church code of the Uppland provisional law was used alongside the Country Law of Magnus Eriksson, making male bestiality a capital punishment in the Kingdom of Sweden, excluding cities.[13]

16th century

17th century

  • 1683  – The Sixth Book of Danish Law of 1683 makes bestiality in Denmark a capital punishment with a penalty of burning.[1][18]
  • 1687  – The Norwegian Code (Book 6, chapter 13, section 15) makes bestiality in Norway a capital punishment with a penalty of burning.[18]

18th century

  • 1711  – Denmark makes those convicted of bestiality should be strangled as well as burned.[1]

19th century

  • 1866  – The Penal Code of 1866, Kingdom of Denmark reduces the penalty for the crime of bestiality from capital punishment to a sentence of eight months to six years hard labor, which is further reduced with one third penalty was served in solitude.[18]

20th century

  • 1903  – The Russian Empire legalizes bestiality.[19]
  • 1 January 1933  – The Kingdom of Denmark legalizes bestiality.[18]
  • 12 August 1940  – The Kingdom of Iceland legalizes bestiality.[18]
  • 1 July 1944  – The Kingdom of Sweden legalizes bestiality.[18][20]

7 October 1949  – The German Democratic Republic is created legalizes bestiality in the territory.[1] 25 June 1968  – The Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin legalizes bestiality.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals">

  • 15 January 1971  – The Republic of Finland legalizes bestiality.[18]
  • 21 April 1972  – The Kingdom of Norway legalizes bestiality.[18]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Podberscek, Anthony; Beetz, Andrea, eds. (2005). Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals. ISBN 1557534128.
  2. Deuteronomy 27:21
  3. Ascione, Frank, ed. (2008). The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application. p. 205. ISBN 1557535655.
  4. Leviticus 18:23–18:24
  5. Leviticus 20:15–20:16
  6. Exodus 22:19
  7. Dynes, Wayne, ed. (1990). Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2. p. 1418. ISBN 9781317368113.
  8. "2" 46 [4]. Histories. ISBN 0674991303. {{cite book}}: Invalid |script-chapter=: missing prefix (help)
  9. M. T. G. Humphreys, Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv, 312. ISBN 9780198701576.
  10. It is rare that the primary punishment for bestiality is pecuniary; the crime usually led to capital punishment.
  11. 11.0 11.1 Ekholst, Christine (2014). A Punishment for Each Criminal: Gender and Crime in Swedish Medieval Law. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9789004271623.
  12. In the Södermanland law, capital punishment is unconditional.
  13. Rydström, Jens (2003). Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950. p. 34. ISBN 0226732576.
  14. Ben-Atar, Doron; Brown, Richard (2014). Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic. p. 17. ISBN 0812245814.
  15. Fone, Byrne (2000). Homophobia: A History. p. 213. ISBN 0312420307.
  16. Rampone Jr., W. (2011). Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare. p. 22. ISBN 0313343756.
  17. THE BUGGERY ACT (1533)
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 Rydström, Jens; Mustola, Kati, eds. (2007). Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999. ISBN 905260245X.
  19. Template:Cite book author-last=Engelstein
  20. LGBT Rights in Sweden