http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1357
> Bestiality is not illegal in Sweden. A ban on the practice was lifted in 1944, along with a ban on homosexuality.
http://www.thelocal.se/27984/20100725
> The translator at the centre of the case was found guilty of possessing child pornography after downloading the offending manga images from the internet.
The lives of FICTIONAL DRAWINGS are higher priority than LIVING ANIMALS in Sweden.
>"There’s a clear conflict between freedom of speech on the one hand and general regulations regarding children’s rights on the other..."
Yep, children are made of paper. So if I made drawings of children being fed into a woodchipper, would I be accused of murder?
>But the case has polarized opinion in Sweden. In an editorial published on Thursday, tabloid Expressen gave its backing to the [accused].
>"However unpleasant and nasty a work of fiction might be, and whatever one thinks about Japanese porn involving cartoon children, there is actually no victim here. The children in the Uppland man’s manga comics were not molested since they were characters in a comic."
Wait, what?? APPLYING LOGIC AND REASON IN THE MEDIA. Sorry, from the USA, I've never actually seen this happen. Go Sweden!