So, a bit of an early update because there's been some news recently: A man accused (and certainly guilty) of molesting his two stepdaughters on 13 counts over the last 10 years was also therein accused of bestiality, as he had reportedly smeared a substance on the girls' genitals to encourage the family dog to lick them there. The court ruled that according to the law, the man was not guilty of bestiality as bestiality specifically requires penetration to take place.
This issue is rather hard to stomach for me, as I imagine it is for anyone reading, and of course, it has caused an uproar. People seem to have generally forgotten that this man was abusing his daughters for ten years and the highlight of the issue has been the poor dog who was compelled by tastiness to lick someone's private parts. Nowhere do you see anyone discussing the issue of how this could have gone on for ten years, how the wife could not have known about it, how children need to be protected, as the girls were just in their teens (and that's at the time of conviction, I do believe). It's all about the dogs.
And of course appealing to their sense of reason is useless. Ask people how on earth having a dog lick a body part smothered in peanut butter or what have you, without any force used or any form of coercion beyond the reward, could be exploitative and abusive, and there is no response, only that it's criminal because it involves animals and sex, when in all honesty even the most stalwart anthropomorphizer must admit that the dogs probably in this case don't care a lick (pun fully intended) whether they're lapping at someone's hand or their crotch, beyond the slight difference in flavour. To assume otherwise would be to assume that dogs have some complex sexual culture in the way that human beings living in worlds developed under Abrahamic religions do. It would put them higher in their sexual finickiness than many human cultures all over the world. It's absurd.
But the public verdict is almost unanimous and everyone hates this man not for being a child molester but for utilizing a dog's taste buds in being such. But there's good news at least for Canadian zoos: Those blowjobs you give your dog, the cute little rubbings and lickings you might give a cat in heat are entirely legal where you live. So despite the idiocy of the public, the intelligence of lawmakers can sometimes win through, and maybe this is a tiny step forward for the rest of us in the western world.
Article from Vice here.
This issue is rather hard to stomach for me, as I imagine it is for anyone reading, and of course, it has caused an uproar. People seem to have generally forgotten that this man was abusing his daughters for ten years and the highlight of the issue has been the poor dog who was compelled by tastiness to lick someone's private parts. Nowhere do you see anyone discussing the issue of how this could have gone on for ten years, how the wife could not have known about it, how children need to be protected, as the girls were just in their teens (and that's at the time of conviction, I do believe). It's all about the dogs.
And of course appealing to their sense of reason is useless. Ask people how on earth having a dog lick a body part smothered in peanut butter or what have you, without any force used or any form of coercion beyond the reward, could be exploitative and abusive, and there is no response, only that it's criminal because it involves animals and sex, when in all honesty even the most stalwart anthropomorphizer must admit that the dogs probably in this case don't care a lick (pun fully intended) whether they're lapping at someone's hand or their crotch, beyond the slight difference in flavour. To assume otherwise would be to assume that dogs have some complex sexual culture in the way that human beings living in worlds developed under Abrahamic religions do. It would put them higher in their sexual finickiness than many human cultures all over the world. It's absurd.
But the public verdict is almost unanimous and everyone hates this man not for being a child molester but for utilizing a dog's taste buds in being such. But there's good news at least for Canadian zoos: Those blowjobs you give your dog, the cute little rubbings and lickings you might give a cat in heat are entirely legal where you live. So despite the idiocy of the public, the intelligence of lawmakers can sometimes win through, and maybe this is a tiny step forward for the rest of us in the western world.
Article from Vice here.
I am curious as to your opinion on statements made by zoos, such as those in /r/zoophilia, about how the time is not right for us to stand up. In fact we should hide even more? While I certain agree the focus should have been on the children and not the dog, many articles have said that new legislation is being introduced. And besides all gays used to be pedophiles; now they are using the same invalid arguments on us.
ReplyDeletePedophilia and rape are definitely the go-to for demonizing people. It wasn't only done to homosexuals; blacks and Asians in North America were for quite some time (and still are in some cases) accused wholesale of diddling your kids and stealing your wives.
DeleteOne thing that does seem to be true about zoophiles in general, though, is that they are quite fearful of being found out. Even those who live in countries in which it is not technically illegal are still at risk of legal action taken against them, not to mention the social stigma. And given that we are by and large very introverted, this sort of paranoia makes sense, and is the reason people are stating that now is not the time and that we may need to be even more careful.
These two things are not mutually incompatible, though. Really, when it is the time for a group to stand up for its rights is the time when they need to be more careful. I don't have the statistics on hand but it seems to me that in the United States, hate crimes against homosexuals increased after they won marriage rights. Crimes against transsexuals and their supporters have definitely increased as of late. We do need to be more careful, but we also need to start being the voices of logic in these arguments, because there isn't anyone at all standing up and saying hey, this doesn't make sense.
As far as I know, no new legislation is being introduced, but I'll of course be keeping my eye out. The current (recent) Canadian government is extremely liberal and progressive in sharp contrast to the last. The Prime Minister raised the pride flag for the first time on the grounds of the federal government. I would not be terribly surprised if we started seeing some progressive sexual laws as well.