ABSTRACT
There are three main kinds of bestiality pornography. The first kind depicts sexual relations with animals or sexual abuse of animals. The second kind depicts animals being tortured and killed. The third kind is synthetic depictions simulating bestiality. Obscenity laws typically focus on offense to the community, thus even when bestiality pornography does not depict harm to animals, it may be banned. Cartoon depictions do not harm animals, yet simulated depictions of bestiality are often held to be obscene. Simulations may be proscribed when depictions are of imaginary animals, not earthly animals (e.g., unicorns). Some critics argue that depictions of animals voluntarily engaging in pleasure are illegal only under morality statutes because of speciesism (Cusack, in press). Speciesism was considered along with racism and sexism in Chapter 3.
