Italian High Court Rules Public Masturbation Not a Crime
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Italy’s highest court has ruled that public masturbation is no longer a crime in Italy, exonerating a man who had been convicted of “autoeroticism” performed in front of a group of female students at the University of Catania last May.
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