Recent Legislation
For centuries, sexual acts with animals were penalized under sodomy or "crime against nature" laws. Since the 1950s most such general laws have been repealed and in some places they have been replaced by laws which are specifically anti-bestiality. Most of these new laws have been created in the 2000s and early 2010s; for example, bestiality was banned in Pennsylvania in 1999, Iowa in 2001, Illinois in 2002, Maryland in 2002, Washington (state) in 2006, Arizona in 2006, Indiana in 2007, Tennessee in 2007, Colorado in 2007, Alaska in 2010, and Florida in 2011 (by Nan Rich),; outside the U.S., bestiality was banned in Norway in 2008, The Netherlands in 2010, and Australia's capital territory in 2011.
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