Should zoosexuality be legal?

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I strongly oppose legalizing any act of bestiality in which the animal in question is unable to express consent or human beings are unable to reliably interpret the consent. This, so far as I’m aware at this time, would rule out sexual intercourse with any other species of critter currently known. Goldwater’s post here just awhile back is quite agreeable to me.

In response to Lief, ranching cattle does not necessitate putting said livestock through cruel forms of physical or emotional abuse if done in a properly compassionate, respectful manner. Likewise, the culling of livestock can be done with very little if any suffering on the part of the animal, and aside from that I’d stress that a cow does not necessarily warrant as many rights as a human being nor does it necessarily have any privilege to have its own interests always honored when they are in conflict with those of human beings. Then again, these judgments of moral value are subjective.

Still, raping an animal would almost invariably inflict physical and/or emotional traumas which cause suffering for the creature above and beyond what enslavement or execution must. And it is important to also bear in mind that I am very much in favor of criminalizing many other forms of animal abuse pertaining to the “enslaving” and “murdering” on which you posted. I'm willing to permit exceptions to a ban on bestiality only when consent can be given or it’s established that a particular species unable to consent cannot suffer from subjection to intercourse by a human being.

On a separate note, I concur with A Person. While being part of the furry subculture and having a zoosexual orientation are not mutually exclusive, having either one of these things does not imply the other. I admittedly fall somewhere on the edges of the scaly/furry subculture myself, mostly as a remnant influence from some unusual spiritual beliefs I dabbled in when a bit younger. I’m a very odd bloke but understand that I’d never echo the sentiments conveyed here by kobidobidog.

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So far as I can tell, those arguing that bestiality should be totally legal are asking for a reason why it should be banned if the food industry is still be allowed to continue its current practices, which in turn I guess would only be applicable to those who are fine with current agricultural practices but merely consider bestiality unnatural, sacrilegious, or to otherwise be in some other manner impure.