Building on the last post, and inspired by a post I saw on the Zoophilia sub-reddit, I'd like to discuss the difference between what people like and what people want.
I have a close friend who is a self-defined masochist. She loves humiliation, and has frequent fantasies about being cornered in an alleyway by multiple people and gang-raped. This notion is of course very terrifying, and most people's immediate reaction is to ask why on earth she might think that would be a good thing to happen, but here is the answer: She doesn't. She would never want that to happen to her in real life. It's simply a fantasy that arouses her.
Many self-defined zoophiles actually fit into this paradigm. Young and inexperienced boys, a lot of the time, quite used to masturbating to anything with visible naughty bits, they find themselves getting off to videos of animals having sex, or people having sex with animals, and imagine that this makes them zoophiles. And sometimes it does, but sometimes they grow up, or they finally get the chance to be around the animal they thought they might like to be with, and it turns out they don't. It's just a fantasy, more properly defined as faunoiphilia.
Others, as shown in the post that I'm thinking about, are more just voyeuristic. These people are not zoophiles, but they may want to see their significant other (in my experience, usually a man wanting to see his girlfriend) having sex with an animal. It's a factor of voyeurism as well as humiliation-focused sadism, given that the attractive aspect of it isn't seeing a beautiful girl with a beautiful animal, but rather a beautiful girl being taken by a base creature. Unfortunately, it's often (not always, but often) a factor in abusive relationships, and these individuals are not zoophiles.
I think it's important to draw these distinctions and to be aware of them. Usually the distinctions we draw are between those who love their animals and those who only use them for sexual gratification, but there are also those who claim to be zoophiles to begin with only to discover they are not — they didn't change, they simply never were, only thought they were because they couldn't distinguish between fantasy and desired reality — and there are those who enjoy watching animals having intercourse with people for reasons more connected to sexual sadism (and judging by the porn that exists out there, these people probably make up the large majority of its consumers).
I have a close friend who is a self-defined masochist. She loves humiliation, and has frequent fantasies about being cornered in an alleyway by multiple people and gang-raped. This notion is of course very terrifying, and most people's immediate reaction is to ask why on earth she might think that would be a good thing to happen, but here is the answer: She doesn't. She would never want that to happen to her in real life. It's simply a fantasy that arouses her.
Many self-defined zoophiles actually fit into this paradigm. Young and inexperienced boys, a lot of the time, quite used to masturbating to anything with visible naughty bits, they find themselves getting off to videos of animals having sex, or people having sex with animals, and imagine that this makes them zoophiles. And sometimes it does, but sometimes they grow up, or they finally get the chance to be around the animal they thought they might like to be with, and it turns out they don't. It's just a fantasy, more properly defined as faunoiphilia.
Others, as shown in the post that I'm thinking about, are more just voyeuristic. These people are not zoophiles, but they may want to see their significant other (in my experience, usually a man wanting to see his girlfriend) having sex with an animal. It's a factor of voyeurism as well as humiliation-focused sadism, given that the attractive aspect of it isn't seeing a beautiful girl with a beautiful animal, but rather a beautiful girl being taken by a base creature. Unfortunately, it's often (not always, but often) a factor in abusive relationships, and these individuals are not zoophiles.
I think it's important to draw these distinctions and to be aware of them. Usually the distinctions we draw are between those who love their animals and those who only use them for sexual gratification, but there are also those who claim to be zoophiles to begin with only to discover they are not — they didn't change, they simply never were, only thought they were because they couldn't distinguish between fantasy and desired reality — and there are those who enjoy watching animals having intercourse with people for reasons more connected to sexual sadism (and judging by the porn that exists out there, these people probably make up the large majority of its consumers).
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