"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Gandhi #quote

July 29, 2009 legal authorities declared a Orange County Florida man was arrested for having sex with his female dog. The Sheriff's Office stated that 21-year-old Laszlo Arsenio Horvath was charged with animal abuse. Sheriff’s spokesman said the dog's injuries were so bad that it had to be euthanized, and human semen was found inside the dog. Authorities began investigating Horvath last month after receiving a tip about possible animal abuse. At this writing Horvath is jail without bail set.

According to Channel 13 News Orlando, Sheriff found a female dog powerless to stand up. The dog's legs were duct taped closed with a cloth pressed against her lower half according to police reports. A veterinarian thought it best to euthanize the 8-year-old whippet-mixed.

According to WSBTV.com in Georgia, 53 year old Edwin Robles was accused July 23, 2009 of having sex with a dog named Chain.

June 2009 a 21 year old Washington State man was banned from having pet for two years according to an Associated Press story. It seems the man was found guilty of having sex with his two dogs. He got 30 days in jail and a deviancy evaluation. His malamutes were luckier than then the Orange County whippet. They have new owners. According to police Whitson is a member of a group known as the Furries. They identify with an animal and dress the part in makeup, ears and tail. Normally sex with animals is not part of the Furries’ social events. Police said two other Furries witnessed Whitson having animal sex and reported him to police.

In the United States, state laws have included bestiality, referred to acts of sodomy, buggery, crime against nature, and deviate sexual intercourse.  These laws banned any penile penetration into orifices other than the vagina of one's wife, which was previously punishable at common law by death. Because the offense is defined in terms of penetration into a bodily orifice by the human or animal penis, it does not include all forms of human-animal sexuality.

Bestiality laws fluctuate broadly from state to state. Pennsylvania includes it as an offense of "voluntary deviate sexual intercourse." Texas considers it an offense under the "public lewdness" category and only if it is committed in a public place or if the individual "is reckless about whether another is present who will be offended or alarmed by his act.”

Bestiality - the term for sexual acts between humans and animals according to Wikipedia.org. Sex with animals is outlawed in America, it is not explicitly condoned other countries.  In most countries, animal sex acts are illegal under animal abuse laws or laws dealing with crimes against nature. Animal sex acts still seem pretty common in the United States.  According to a December 1999 article produced by the River Front Times.com, thousands of British watched TV as a Carl Junction, Missouri man had sex with his horse. According to the article, Mark Matthews led the horse Pixel, which he called his ‘wife’, into a trailer and made passionate love to her.  The TV program was part of a British documentary, Hidden Love: Animal Passions which explored a Missouri's zoophile community.  Missouri is one state alone with Texas that does not block human beings from having sex with animals.

http://judymyers.tripod.com/zoolaw.html is a website by a Missouri residents with views against bestiality. On her website, Judy Myers refers to ‘Mark Mathews’.  Apparently, Mark Matthews is an author of pro-zoophile books including a children’s book available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble according to Myers. One book I found online was The Horseman: Obsessions of a Zoophile (New Concepts in Human Sexuality Series) by Mark Matthews. At least 17 people reviewed the book at Amazon.com.

Bible-Christian

Exodus 22:19 (New International Version) 19 "Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.

From Leviticus 18 (The Message Version) 23 "Don't have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it. "A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.

24-28 "Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you. Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities—the land vomited up its inhabitants. You must keep my decrees and laws— natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things. The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land. And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.

29-30 "Those who do any of these abhorrent things will be cut off from their people. Keep to what I tell you; don't engage in any of the abhorrent acts that were practiced before you came. Don't pollute yourselves with them. I am God, your God."

Zionist – Seven Laws of Noah

1. Do not worship idols
2. Do not murder
3. Do not steal
4. Do not commit adultery, homosexuality, bestiality or the other forbidden relationships.
5. Do not eat flesh taken from an animal while it was still alive.
6. Do not blaspheme God's name.
7. Set up courts of justice to enforce these laws and keep everyone in line.

Buddhism - Śīla refers to overall principles of ethical behavior. Lay people generally undertake to live by the five precepts, which are common to all Buddhist schools. The five precepts are training rules in order to live a better life in which one is happy, without worries, and can meditate well:

1. To refrain from taking life (non-violence towards sentient life forms)
2. To refrain from taking that which is not given (not committing theft)
3. To refrain from sensual (including sexual) misconduct
4. To refrain from lying (speaking truth always)
5. To refrain from intoxicants which lead to loss of mindfulness (specifically, drugs and alcohol)

It appears bestiality has been practiced for centuries or the Bible and Hebrew text would not have to condemn the practice. The court records available in the United States, dating as far back as the 14th century and continuing to today, almost always show males, rather than females, as the human parties. Typically the animals have been mares, pigs, and sheep, and infrequently other domestic farm animals, such as goats, rabbits, and chickens.

The first data on frequency of bestiality were collected by Kinsey, but some later writers dispute the stats, because the study lacked a random sample, and the prison population was included, causing sampling bias. The males' partners were generally farm animals, while the females' partners were mostly pet dogs and cats. Hunt's data from 1974 show similar animal categories but a decrease over 20 years to 4.9 percent for males and 1.9 percent for females, attributed to a declining rural environment in the United States. This may be due to greater occasions and less self-consciousness to have sex with other human beings since the 1960s and the "sexual revolution." Kinsey found vaginal or anal copulation the most common form of contact for males, followed by masturbating the male or female animal. Contacts also included fellation by the animal of the male, and masturbation by friction against the animal's body.

Zoonoses are diseases of animals, such as rabies or psittacosis, that can be transmitted to humans by close contact and bites. Zoonoses can be transmitted through casual interaction, but others are much more readily transferred by activities that expose humans to the semen, vaginal fluids, urine, saliva, feces and blood of animals According to CDC emergence of new zoonotic pathogens seems to be accelerating for several reasons: global human and livestock animal populations have continued to grow, bringing increasingly larger numbers of people and animals into close contact; transportation has advanced, making it possible to circumnavigate the globe in less than the incubation period of most infectious agents; ecologic and environmental changes brought about by human activity are massive.