{"id":10440,"date":"2013-09-18T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2013-09-18T08:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:29:24","slug":"sweden-public-indecency-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10440","title":{"rendered":"Sweden: Public indecency not a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10441\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sweden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10441\" alt=\"Be warned, public indecency welcome on Swedish beaches\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sweden-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sweden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sweden.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be warned, public indecency welcome on Swedish beaches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man who openly masturbated on a Stockholm beach has been acquitted of sexual assault in court after it was ruled he was not targeting a specific person, with the prosecutor saying it&#8217;s &#8220;okay&#8221; to play with yourself in public<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn District Court has now acquitted the 65-year old in a judgement which stated that it &#8220;may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the court added that no offence had been committed as the masturbating man was not pleasuring himself towards a specific person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public prosecutor Olof Vrethammar told the Mitti newspaper that he wasn&#8217;t planning to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For this to be a criminal offence it&#8217;s required that the sexual molestation was directed towards one or more people. I think the court&#8217;s judgement is reasonable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if it was now acceptable to masturbate in public if you don&#8217;t direct it towards a specific individual the prosecutor said it was &#8220;okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The district court has made a judgement on this case. With that we can conclude that it is okay to masturbate on the beach. The act may be considered to be disorderly conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another recent judgement a 15-year-old boy was acquitted after being previously charged with sexual assault. The teen had thrown his underwear into a lake and stood naked in front of two under-age girls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn District Court said that his behaviour did not have a sexual undertone and the charge was dismissed. Both the girls had requested the boy be charged with molestation. &#8211; thelocal.se<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who openly masturbated on a Stockholm beach has been acquitted of sexual assault in court after it was ruled he was not targeting a specific person, with the prosecutor saying it&#8217;s &#8220;okay&#8221; to play with yourself in public The S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn District Court has now acquitted the 65-year old in a judgement which stated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden: Public indecency not a crime&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[6336,6335],"class_list":["post-10440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-openly-masturbated-on-a-stockholm-beach","tag-public-indecency"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sweden.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions\/10445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}