SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Shapeshifting, Asclepius, Minos
16 Nov 2016
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Bestiality: until recently little academic interest in. Now growing body of literature across # disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, criminology, sociology. All represent an anthropocentric view - exps of humans alternative view veterinary med & animal protection concerned with harms to animals & problem of consent. Is the last taboo - last to be spoken to openly. Sex acts, fantasy, fetish, emotional connection sodomy term once used to refer to bestiality. However, also stood for other forms of deviant sexuality e. g. anal & oral sex, same-sex sexual activity, extra-marital affairs involved any non-heterosexual, non-monogamous, pre or extra-marital, non-genital non-reproductive sexual activity term zoophilia replaced sodomy. Is a clinical forensic term - a paraphilia. Refers to individuals who pratice sex with animals inds refer to selves as zoophiles or zoos: 1894 krafft-ebing psychopathia sexualis. Des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed (cid:272)ase histories of i(cid:374)ds" se(cid:454)ual (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:272)t with animals. Bestiality defined as all non pathological sexual acts with animals animal fetishism defined as zoophilia erotica.
