Having sex with animals isn’t right and people are justifiably shocked by it.

But where do you draw the line. What if the person having the sex were a woman instead of a man? Would it still be considered animal cruelty?

Is it cruelty to slaughter animals by the tens of thousands every day, or to make them serve us as we do with dogs and horses? Is it cruelty to keep pets isolated from others of their own species for their entire lives as most people do?

Not defending dog “lovers” here, or advocating legalization, but if someone has no other outlet, where do they turn? Sex is a recognized human need. People who are starving for food will resort to extraordinary measures to get food, and most of those measures would be unacceptable under normal circumstances.

One way or another society should make sure that there is some sort of alternative available so that people don’t have to resort to activities like this.

A Tampa, Florida man beat his three year old son until he fell into a coma, because he feared the child might be gay.
http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=1&id=6397

one gets a horrifying image of the Deep South, still locked into the brutal 1900s, still being run by Good Ole Boys (not to be confused with Goodfellas) and suckerin the rubes with religion.

My heart goes out to anyone down there working for change, it must be like being buried alive in ants.

The investigation was launched this month after authorities discovered the July 2 death of a man who suffered internal bleeding after engaging in anal sex with a horse at the farm, Sgt. John Urquhart said.

Authorities are not releasing the man’s identity because the King County medical examiner has ruled his death accidental. The victim was in his 40s, Urquhart said.

Investigators have interviewed several people in connection with the case, which was brought to authorities’ attention after the man was dropped off at a hospital for medical treatment. A surveillance camera picked up the license plate of the car, which led sheriff’s detectives to the farm and other people involved, Urquhart said.

Bestiality is not illegal in Washington state.

“Just sex with an animal per se, you’d have to prove some sort of animal cruelty out of that and that’s why we’ve got more investigating to do,” Urquhart said.

“A significant number of people, we believe, have likely visited this farm,” he said, declining to specify a number while the investigation continues.

The Humane Society of the United States intends to use the case during the next state legislative session as an example of why sex with animals should be outlawed in Washington, said Bob Reder, a Humane Society regional director in Seattle.

“This and a few other cases that we have will allow us a platform to talk about sex abuse of animals,” Reder said.

Thirty-three states have laws banning sex with animals, he said.

Enumclaw is a rural town in southeast King County.