Comments on: New Bestiality Law: Did Florida Just Ban Sex?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:34:46 +0000

828.126 (1) (a) is interesting – seemingly allows for fondling of the animal in question for it’s own sexual arousal or gratification, just not of the person involved. Good news for folk that like to pamper their pets!

Ahem, moving on… I could see it coming that someone would, of course, link this to child abuse. Whereas I don’t really condone sex with animals, I can’t imagine that it encourages child molestation, and it’s bizarre to imagine that it might be treated with the same judicial prejudice.

By: Quizzical mama

Quizzical mama — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:01:49 +0000

oops, sorry Thomas for misnaming you in my previous comment (take it as a compliment). good post.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:04:35 +0000

I cannot help but notice the fact that this law does not seem to ban any behavior at all if the behavior is for the purpose of sexual gratification or sexual arousal of the animal. As long as the person doesn’t try to enjoy it, no crime has been committed.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:23:07 +0000

@EM — regardless of the humanity or inhumanity of slaughter methods, I never implied this guy was innocently slaughtering his goat for meat by doing what he did. I used the term “could have” intentionally.

By: Quizzical mama

Quizzical mama — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:09:58 +0000

@ EM: read _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_ and your idea of required humane slaughter methods will go out the window.

@ Violet: I find your post intriguing. I think you nailed several critical cultural and political problems with this approach to bestiality. In Norway, the enforcement of the law regulating porn was recently changed to allow for all porn that portrays CONSENSUAL sex, including consensual BDSM, but not porn that shows grave sexual violence and coercion, or sex with minors, animals, and dead bodies.

By: EM

EM — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:34:08 +0000

“The problem is, the guy who asphyxiated a goat – assuming it was “his” goat – could have slaughtered it, and that would have been fine with everyone except the goat.”

To be fair, most places have laws requiring humane slaughter methods, which, to my knowledge, do not include strangulation during rape.