5 horrific acts that are legal in some countries

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March 14, 2018 11:56 AM

In reality, acts like cannibalism, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, mutilation, rape, castration, public flogging, stoning, and slavery is legal in various parts of the world

Most of us are probably unaware of the full extent of some of the horrific acts that are

In reality, acts like cannibalism, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, mutilation, rape, castration, public flogging, stoning, and slavery is legal in various parts of the world.

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You might be surprised by what people can get away with in some countries.

1. Cannibalism

Cannibalism is technically still legal throughout the United States and several other countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom.

However, to indulge one’s appetite for human flesh, a cannibal would first have to find a corpse for his meal, since murder is illegal.

2. Necrophilia

Committing sex acts on the dead, or necrophilia, is likely to strike most people as horrific, but in some US states, India and parts of Africa, it’s not illegal. As late as 2015, “adultery, sodomy, blasphemy, and the act of displaying an albino in public for hire” were illegal in Massachusetts but necrophilia isn’t.

3. Bestiality

In some countries, this act remains legal. In Germany, “erotic zoos” cater to the bizarre fetish, although intimate relations between humans and animals aren’t restricted to these “bestiality brothels.”

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The practice is also legal in Hungary, Finland, Mexico, and the states of Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

In Alabama, 2014 legislation would have outlawed the act, but the governor vetoed it.

4. Female Genital Mutilation

FGM is widely practised in 28 African nations and a few Asian countries. As many as 140 million women are estimated to have undergone FGM, and three million more girls and women are subjected to the procedure each year.

The most common form of FGM, the removal of the clitoris, often without anaesthesia. Infibulation entails the clitoris and external genitalia being removed, and “the bleeding raw edges of the large lips are held together by thorns or other fastening devices” to allow developing scar tissue to seal the vaginal entrance.

This terrible procedure is most often performed in Sudan, Somalia, Northern Kenya, parts of Ethiopia, up and down the Red Sea Coasts, parts of Mali, and surrounding areas.

5. Rape

In India, a husband is allowed to rape his wife. Marital rape is also legal in Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. In 2016, Indian legislation proposed to specify that “marriage should not be considered as an irrevocable consent to sexual acts,” but the change to the nation’s sexual assault laws was rejected.

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