Sweden is now "okay" with public masturbation. On June 6, a 65-year-old man took off his shorts at a beach near Stockholm and began masturbating into the ocean. The man was charged with sexual assault, but was acquitted last week after a judge ruled he was not targeting a specific person.

Even though the Södertörn District Court's judgment stated it “may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion,” the court decided the man had not committed a crime, a decision the public prosecutor agreed with, though he said in the future public masturbation might be considered disorderly conduct.

"For this to be a criminal offence it's required that the sexual molestation was directed towards one or more people," Olof Vrethammar said. "I think the court's judgement is reasonable. With that we can conclude that it is okay to masturbate on the beach."

http://gawker.com/public-masturbation-declared-legal-in-sweden-after-land-1340599730?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Well, why not. As long as no children are present, everyone does it. <deleted> it.

Edit: in certain places. I mean, 'into the ocean'? Everything else gets dumped in there. Fair enough.

Edit 2: as a <deleted> myself, I'd prefer to see a handsome-ish man/woman masturbate in public, than a fat person showing flesh. (Which is why I hide when I wank...)

I.hope that equal opportunities laws apply to this ruling.

Warning...

Public defecation is next...

That depends on someone giving a shit.

Under certain circumstances public masturbation has been tolerated in the UK for many years.

In the early 70s I was erecting ward units in and around Essex for some of our larger hospitals of the type no longer much used. The people they housed are now out in the community, many homeless, many habitual drunks. Care in the community failures by the thousand.

Anyway at Thurrock the hospital had large grounds which the patients were allowed to use. One patient used to be sitting out on the grass when we started work each morning, there when we left at night. And all day, every day, he was playing with his ding-a-ling. Non-stop. We asked the staff about it and they said 'he's happy - why interfere'.

I wonder whatever happened to him when our politicians decided to save money by closing all the mental hospitals?

Perhaps Chuck Berry gave him a job.