diff --git a/oslo_i18n/_message.py b/oslo_i18n/_message.py
index 9dff366..d03337d 100644
--- a/oslo_i18n/_message.py
+++ b/oslo_i18n/_message.py
@@ -228,13 +228,3 @@ class Message(six.text_type):
 
     def __radd__(self, other):
         return self.__add__(other)
-
-    if six.PY2:
-        def __str__(self):
-            # NOTE(luisg): Logging in python 2.6 tries to str() log records,
-            # and it expects specifically a UnicodeError in order to proceed.
-            from oslo_i18n._i18n import _
-            msg = _('Message objects do not support str() because they may '
-                    'contain non-ascii characters. '
-                    'Please use unicode() or translate() instead.')
-            raise UnicodeError(msg)
diff --git a/oslo_i18n/tests/test_message.py b/oslo_i18n/tests/test_message.py
index 47dd365..ba7851f 100644
--- a/oslo_i18n/tests/test_message.py
+++ b/oslo_i18n/tests/test_message.py
@@ -303,12 +303,6 @@ class MessageTestCase(test_base.BaseTestCase):
         test_me = lambda: utils.SomeObject('test') + _message.Message(msgid)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, test_me)
 
-    @testtools.skipIf(six.PY3, 'test specific to Python 2')
-    def test_str_disabled(self):
-        msgid = "A message"
-        test_me = lambda: str(_message.Message(msgid))
-        self.assertRaises(UnicodeError, test_me)
-
     @mock.patch('gettext.translation')
     def test_translate(self, mock_translation):
         en_message = 'A message in the default locale'