Italy's highest court: Masturbating in public is not a crime

Italy’s highest court has legalised masturbating in public after a 69-year-old’s sentence was overturned when he argued ‘he only does it occasionally’.

The man, named only as Pietro L, was caught holding his penis outside the University of Catania in Sicily in front of female students and was jailed for three years.

His lawyers took the case all the way to the Supreme Court in Rome where his appeal was upheld citing a law introduced last year which decriminalised masturbating in public in front of women.