David Cameron Accused of Sex Act With a Dead Pig
The prime minister is now facing a âBae of Pigsâ crisis, after a new book alleges he had carnal knowledge of a dead pig.
Esmé Bianco (Ros from Game of Thrones)
Why Is Everyone Saying the U.K. Prime Minister Had Sex with a Farm Animal?
Itâs not the sort of denial any world leader wants to make, and Prime Minister David Cameron has yet to respond to allegations that he once inserted his penis into the mouth of a dead pig.
The bizarre, and possibly illegal act, allegedly took place during the initiation for a debauched and secretive society at the University of Oxford. The lurid details are described in an extraordinary, unauthorized biography of the British prime minister written by the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.
Downing Street has refused to comment on the alleged indiscretion, which is being described as his âBae of Pigsâ crisis on Twitter.
Is it true that David Cameron had sex with a pig?
Lord Ashcroftâs book also alleges that Cameron was a member of a âdope smoking groupâ called the Flam Club and repeats rumors that cocaine was allowed to circulate openly at the future prime ministerâs home in London. Ashcroft, who gave more than $12 million to the party, accuses Cameron of appearing lazy and unreliable and says his own campaign chief described him as a âposh cunt.â
Lord Ashcroft and co-author Isabel Oakeshottâformer political editor of The Sunday Timesâclaim they were told about the pigâs head by âa distinguished Oxford contemporaryâ who also went on to become a Member of Parliament.
It was claimed that Cameron took part in an initiation ceremony to join the Piers Gaveston society, a notorious Oxford club that takes its name from the reputed gay lover of King Edward II. The magazine Tatler, Britainâs leading arbiter of the aristocracy, describes the group as Oxfordâs âcoolestâ drinking society, with an annual summer party that is âbasically a very well-organized orgy.â Hugh Grant was once a member.
The unnamed politician told the authors of Call Me Dave that he saw photographic evidence of Cameron placing âa private part of his anatomyâ into the mouth of a pigâs head as it rested in the lap of a Piers Gav member.
Ashcroft and Oakeshott conclude that it would be âan elaborate story for an otherwise credible figure to invent.â
The story is, however, similar to a classic dirty tricks campaign legend described by Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail â72.
This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnsonâs early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponentâs life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.
âChrist, we canât get a way calling him a pig-fucker,â the campaign manager protested. âNobodyâs going to believe a thing like that.â
âI know,â Johnson replied. âBut letâs make the sonofabitch deny it.â
The prime ministerâs spokeswoman seemed keen to avoid exactly that Monday, claiming that she “won’t dignify with a response” any of the allegations contained within the book. The serialization of Call Me Dave is due to continue in the Daily Mail for the rest of the week so it remains to be seen how long that line can hold.
âWhat it basically involved was getting drunk and standing on restaurant tables, shouting about âfucking plebsâ,â said Delingpole. âIt was all about despising poor peopleâ
Cameron has never denied recreational drug use. The book quotes a friend, James Delingpole, recalling hazy days in his university rooms listening to Supertramp albums under the influence of marijuana.
âI had a room on the top floor, and we’d all sit on the floor and smoke dope,â he claimed.
Delingpole, now a journalist, also described the antics of the university drinking clubs. As well as the alleged association with the Piers Gaveston society, Cameron was a confirmed member of the Bullingdon Club, along with two of the favorites to succeed him as prime minister, George Osborne, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
Is it illegal to have sex with a dead pig?Â
Julie Delpy
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âThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.â â George Orwell, Animal Farm
Questions of satire, reality and historical anachronism came to mind upon reading yesterdayâs revelations about David Cameron. According to a controversial new biography, the Prime Minister inserted a âprivate part of his anatomyâ into a âdead pigâs headâ while at Oxford University â an act that was allegedly photographed.
Intercourse with an animal
According to section 69 of The Sexual Offences Act 2003 a person commits an offence of intercourse with an animal if:
(a)he intentionally performs an act of penetration with his penis,
(b)what is penetrated is the vagina or anus of a living animal.
Since the animal in question was not living and nor was its vagina or anus penetrated it would appear no offence could have been committed under the 2003 legislation.
Sexual penetration of a corpse
According to section 70 of The Sexual Offences Act 2003 a person commits an offence of sexual penetration of a corpse if:
(a) he intentionally performs an act of penetration with a part of his body or anything else,
(b) what is penetrated is a part of the body of a dead person.
Since animals are not granted legal personhood at law no offence could have been committed under the 2003 legislation.
Outraging Public Decency
Outraging public decency is a common law offence, which requires:
1) An act of a lewd, obscene or disgusting nature which would outrage minimum standards of public decency;
2) Which is committed in a place accessible to or within view of the public;
3) In the actual presence of two or more persons, who were capable of seeing it.
This would be fact specific, based on the location of the act. Hence were it committed in a restaurant accessible to or within view of the public, and assuming that the colleague and photographer were indeed present, an offence could arise under the common law which would be punishable by unlimited imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine.
Possession of an extreme pornographic image
According to section 63 of The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, it is an offence for a person to be in possession of an extreme pornographic image of:
7) (d) a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive), and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that any such person or animal was real.
It is interesting to note that while the act itself is legal, possessing a photograph of it could be a criminal offence attracting up to two years imprisonment.
Nonetheless, a defence might exist if it could be argued the image was not pornographic, since: âAn image is ‘pornographic’ if it is of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal.â
However, according to the Ministry of Justiceâs Explanatory Note: âIt is not a question of the intentions of those who produced the image. Nor is it a question of the sexual arousal of the defendant.â
Therefore, it could be argued that a person might possess such an image for the purposes of satire, political commentary or simple grossness.
What can we conclude?
Perhaps it is unsurprising, given that animals and cadavers cannot consent, that our Prime Minister voted against the proposal in The Children and Families Bill to teach the value of sexual consent, agency and negotiation in schools. Yet he is in favour of blocking and filtering pornographic images from UK internet service providers.
However, David Cameron could be considered fortunate since under European mediaeval law the punishment for bestiality, or offensa cujus nominatio crimen est, was to be put to death along with the animal.
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