By: rita

rita — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:28:03 +0000

I read the Bering article and found it pretty poor on the whole: a jokey tone in inappropriate places:”he had cruelly killed a mare out of jealousy because he thought she‚Äôd been giving eyes to a certain stallion. (You thought you had issues.)”, for instance. He missed the point that sexual abuse of other species, although it may not always do the harm (I doubt if a mare notices a chap pushing in, so to speak – though I note the man making love to his mare did it in her stall, where, presumably, she couldn’t move off if she wished) done in intra-species rape nevertheless can only take place (at least when performed by the human male) without the animal’s freedom to leave the situation. Bering wishes to examine cases of persons declaring sexual attraction to other species, not abuse, but I don’t see how the outworkings of this can be anything else. His article would have read more seriously without the nudge, nudge, down on the farm bits. Humans deceive themselves enough about the nature of their emotions without this.
Anthrozo√∂s had a special issue about zo√∂philia a couple of years ago, if anyone is interested. It has to be said that very few of the widespread practices described had anything to do with attraction towards the animals and everything to do with sadism.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:14:13 +0000

Would it be very wrong of me to suggest that this is someone who needs to learn that neigh means neigh?
Thought so.

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