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I figured that this is a topic, while not dear to us, is relevant to this crowd -- well maybe not the public part. Italy's highest court has ruled that masturbation in public is not a crime, as long as it is not conducted in the presence of minors.
The man was convicted in May 2015 after he performed the act in front of students on the University of Catania campus, according to documents filed with Supreme Court. The man was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of €3,200 (around $3,600).
However, the defendant's lawyer appealed the case to the country's highest court, which ruled on the side of the accused in June but only just made its decision public. Judges ruled that public masturbation out of the presence of minors is no longer deemed criminal conduct due to a change in the law last year, which decriminalized the act.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/europe/italy-supreme-court-masturbation/
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Monday September 12 2016, @11:40AM
Perhaps you could help me understand something that has never made sense to me.
Why do religious people think pleasure == hell == deviant == wicked == outrageous == perverted?
Why do you cling to the idea that your imaginary man-in-the-sky would design bodies specifically to experience pleasure and then hurl fiery mountains at them when they use their own bodies as designed?
Your "morality" seems centered on not pissing off the mountain-thrower, who gets angry over some pretty inexplicable things, but not -- interestingly -- massive suffering, starvation, war...
Pleasure wicked. Suffering noble.
My morality is more along the lines of "don't harm someone without their consent". This, then, would permit forms of pleasure that have the consent of the participants. Like the time I saw a woman masturbating at a nude beach, with an audience that was enjoying the view, and no mountains were hurled.