law to allow sex in dutch parks

Well, who says the Europeans don't have it good? Dutch police are asking for sex in parks to be legal:

In Amsterdam's Vondelpark, owners of dogs let off the leash can be fined, but sex will shortly be permitted. "Why should we try to maintain something that is actually impossible to maintain, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually signifies much pleasure?" says Paul van Grieken, the responsible Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of Amsterdam.

Perhaps more interesting is the rest of the article, which goes on to cite where sex can't happen and the actual reason it might be legal soon:

"Of course there are strict rules attached. Thus, condoms must always be cleared away, it must never take place in the neighbourhood of children's playgrounds and the sex must be restricted to the evening and night-time."

LECD is now calling on Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht to tolerate 'cruising' gays in all their parks. In a letter to the administrators of the three cities, the police institute says that by regulating sex in public, the safety of homosexuals from 'queer-bashers' can be better guaranteed.

Although, reading another quote by the officer where he refers to gays as 'homos' was somehow slightly shocking to me. I'm not sure how I feel about it all — good in one way, but weird in another: 1. does limiting the sex to night actually mean that bashings could happen easier? and 2. cruising in parks kinda freaks me out. R and I went to Griffith Park one Sunday afternoon a few years ago and the number of guys cruising there in the afternoon made the trip less about a stroll through nature and more about loads of men lined up on the paths, waiting for other people. Though perhaps my issue in point 2 would be lessened by point 1.