ABSTRACT
Taboos against human-animal sexual relationships may seem black and white. Society may believe that law can be used to enforce clear taboos against bestiality. Animals' survival instincts and their willingness to sustain their own health should not be abused or underestimated. Bestiality is addressed by society under a few different laws that have evolved in recent years. Generally speaking, injurious bestiality is prohibited by cruelty statutes. Dealing in bestial pornography, which is considered to be hardcore pornography and obscenity, can be described as per se illegal. Sex offenses correlate with viewing bestial pornography and other hardcore pornography. Offenders may force sexual assault victims to view bestial pornography or create bestial pornography. Metaphoric pornographication of meat may be linked with abuse of animals, sexual abuse of children, and meat. Animals are routinely penetrated and masturbated pursuant to legal breeding practices. Breeding, bestiality, and bonding may be conceptually distinct activities separated by thousands of years of tradition.
