Yes, it was just yesterday we were noting that the Netherlands is the gayest place in all of Europe with a generally sympathetic though sometimes bureaucratically uptight asylum policy toward persecuted fags.  And today comes news that an alderman in Amsterdam's Oud-Zuid district, Paul van Grieken, has decided to decriminalize what is already a fairly rampant and mostly tolerated activity in the city's famous Vondelpark, specifically in the designated cruising area of the rose garden. "Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?" he said.

The rules are simple: no sex during the day time or in front of children and clean up your condoms. 

As with any change in policy, there are critics.  Apparently dog owners, who previously have been able to allow their little furry babies to roam free in the park, are now required to keep their dogs on their leashes or face a stiff fine.  Not without reason, these folks are hurt that the gays are getting to have legal public sex (on-leash or off), while they must tether their pooches.

Let the Sword go on the record as being in full support of the creation of off-leash areas for dogs in Dutch parks, preferably far away from wherever the gays are fucking each other, because that could turn weird.  Politics is all about compromise, people.


via Queerty


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