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Dog show girlCarl Isley Dog show girl INTRODUCTION "Bestiality", "violation of animals", "monstrous and revolting to mankind". Krafft-Ebing used these words to introduce the subject of sex between humans and animals in his monumental nineteenth century study of perverse sexuality, Psychopathia Sexualis. The public attitude toward many deviant sex practices has eased since those harsh Victorian times but the very idea of bestiality seems as "monstrous and revolting" as ever to most people today. The Old Testament, source of most of our basic behavioral taboos, is clear on the subject. In Leviticus 18:23 Lord lays down the law to Moses, "Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion." The Bible not only forbade bestiality but prescribed stern penalties both for the human and the animal participants, each apparently being presumed equally guilty in the affair. Thus Leviticus tells us, "If a man lie with a beast he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall stay the beast." In the Middle Ages in Europe surviving court records show that the Biblical penalties were carried out to the letter ...» |
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