Bestiality and zoophilia - Evolve For Animals

Bestiality and ZoophiliaSome violent practices are performed with small rodents, such as miceor hamsters. Here, the animals are put into condoms or tubes and theninserted into the vagina or anus of the person. While the animal dies of suffocation,its movements stimulate the person (Miletski 2002). The insertionof fish or snakes into the vaginas of women has been reported byDekkers (1994).Many of the described sexual practices with animals can be seen inpornographic pictures and videos, and in some cases it is obvious that painand suffering is inflicted upon the animal. Sedation of animals for the purposeof easier sexual abuse is sometimes practiced, too. Historically, livesex shows with animals were known to have existed in places such asMexico, the Netherlands, and the US (Bagley 1968 cited in Miletski 2002),and supposedly still take place today (Beetz 2002). In these shows, maleand female prostitutes engage in sexual activity, sometimes even intercourse,with mules, donkeys, or dogs (Ullerstam 1966; Love 1992).Species InvolvedA common assumption is that mainly farm animals are involved in cases ofbestiality. This is probably based on early studies (e.g., Kinsey, Pomeroy andMartin 1948) which showed that bestiality occurred most often in rural areas.Also, pets are generally less accessible than livestock such as cows, calves,bulls, goats, sheep, and donkeys. Certainly, equines such as horses, donkeys,and mules, and ovines such as sheep or goats, seem to be frequently involved.Even sexual contact with bulls—masturbation of young bulls, and men andwomen being mounted and penetrated by bulls—has been reported (Masters1966; Rosenfeld 1967). Chickens and rodents have also featured in the literatureand are usually treated violently, leading to severe injuries and death ofthe animal. It has also been reported that humans engage sexually with maleand female pigs, though not frequently, and supposedly even penetration ofthe human by male pigs occurs (Beetz 2002). Recent research (Beetz 2002;Miletski 2002; Williams and Weinberg 2003) shows that today, among samplesof self-defined zoophiles, dogs, not just females of large breeds but alsomales, are preferred for sexual relations. And from an Internet survey,Rosenbauer (1997) found that the animals preferred for sexual relations weremale dogs, followed by female horses, female dogs, and male horses.Sexual contacts with deer, tapirs, antelopes, and camels have also beenrecorded (Massen 1994). And in former times, crocodile hunters in Egyptsupposedly engaged in intercourse with female crocodiles before killingthem (Massen 1994). Fish and snakes, too, are sexually used by insertingthem into the vagina of the human (Dekkers 1994), and from Japan there58 Beetz