Recognising the inherent inability of an animal to meaningfully communicate consent to sexual acts with sapients, making sexual acts with animals amount to sexual assault and thus animal abuse; and
Further noting the demonstrable negative effects of such abuse on animals, which often sustain significant, long-term injuries as a result of sexual abuse;
The World Assembly enacts as follows, subject to relevant past World Assembly legislation still in force.
- Every member nation must prohibit the act of a person having sexual intercourse with an animal. Every member nation must also prohibit the act of a person causing any form of physical harm to an animal for the sexual gratification of that, or any other, person.
- The term “animal”, in Section 1, includes any species with the ability to control its movement and excludes any sapient species as defined by World Assembly or other applicable law. No part of this resolution should be interpreted as inherently addressing sexual acts with dead animals or parts thereof. A member nation may delegate the duty of enforcing Section 1 to its respective administrative or political subdivisions, so long as that Section is enforced throughout the entirety of that member nation’s jurisdiction.