Bestiality

Ohio is making animal cruelty nationwide headlines for the third time this year. A Mansfield area man plead guilty to having sex with dogs. Bestiality is not just an Ohio problem, multiple cases are occurring across the United States.

The arrest of an Ohio man for bestiality is making headlines across the state. The alleged sex acts Peter Bower committed with his dogs and horse may be startling, but are far from the only bestiality crimes occurring across the nation.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III R), zoophilia (bestiality) is a mental disorder in which human beings have sexual desires for animals. The causes of zoosexuality aren't known.

Review of the documentary Zoo, a very slow, very non-sensationalist film about a subject matter'"bestiality'"that one would think it would be impossible to make a film about that isn't sensationalist.

Frank Kameny - the "gay" pioneer revered by homosexual activists for his role in pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to effectively reclassify homosexuals as normal - now says that sex with animals is OK "as long as the animal doesn't mind."

There is another area of animal love that is less talked about and that is zoophilia (Zoo meaning animal and philia meaning love). The area of bestiality would fall under this rubric.

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Read it if you must, there are people performing sex on animals.

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