Incest and necrophilia 'should be legal' according to youth branch of Swedish Liberal People's Party'Incest can be considered unusual and disgusting, but the law cannot stem from it being disgusting' www.independent.co.uk/topic/incestbetween siblings and necrophilia should be legalised, a branch of the www.independent.co.uk/topic/SwedenLiberal People's Party has argued.The Stockholm branch of the party's youth wing (LUF) voted on the controversial motion at its annual meeting on Sunday.It called for the repeal of several laws to make consensual sexbetween brothers and sisters aged over 15 legal, as well as allowingpeople to "bequeath" their bodies for intercourse after death withoutfearing the perpetrator would be prosecuted.The political party's youth wing voted on the motion at a meeting in StockholmCecilia Johnsson, president of LUF Stockholm, told www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article22305329.abwww.aftonbladet legislation amounted to “morality law”, adding: “These laws protect no one right now”.“I understand that [incest] can be considered unusual and disgusting, but the law cannot stem from it being disgusting”.The LUF also voted to support the legalisation of sexual acts with acorpse, on the condition that the person consented while they were stillalive.Read more[*] www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aron-fink-from-sou [/*][*] www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scottish-parliament-h [/*][*] www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/father-daughter-ince [/*][/list]Ms Johnsson said: “You should get to decide what happens to your bodyafter you die, and if it happens to be that someone wants to bequeaththeir body to a museum or for research, or if they want to bequeath tosomeone for sex, then it should be okay.”The central Liberal People's Party disagreed, however, with spokesperson Adam Alfredsson telling www.expressen.se/nyheter/ungdomsforbundets-kontroversiella-f proposals were “nothing like the mother party endorses.”“Incest is and should remain illegal,” he added. “We think it willcontinue to be illegal to use a dead man’s body in [a sexual] way.”Meanwhile, a former Swedish Liberal MP, Carl B Hamilton, took toFacebook to dismiss the youth wing's proposals as a publicity stuntconcocted by "nitwits".The Independent has contacted Ms Johnsson for a response.It is not the first time similar proposals have been raised in Europe.In 2014, the German Ethics Council also www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-ethics-counci between siblings, after examining the case of a man who was jailed for having four children with his sister.The council argued that the risk of disability in children was notsufficient to warrant a law putting couples in “tragic situations”, andthat decriminalising incest would not fuel the spread of the “very rare”practice.“The majority of the German Ethics Council is of the opinion that itis not appropriate for a criminal law to preserve a social taboo,” astatement said.A spokeswoman for Angela Merkel's CDU party dismissed the possibility of abolishing criminal punishment at the time.