Let’s not forget that by far the most common cases of sexual assault on animals are perfectly legal. Collection of sperm, artificial insemination, castration, forced matings etc. As long as it’s done for breeding it’s legal.
(Some professions here may also be ones you don’t want on your business card).
We didn’t forget. Rob linked the article about the meat industry that gets at all that. It’s a good read.
And yikes, Americans eat a LOT of meat and dairy.
(Someday we’ll need to come up with legal and slang terms for boffing intelligent robots, aliens, genetically uplifted fellow earth mammals, etc., who are clearly not human but capable of informed and competent consent. )
It caused quite a stir when it was published—one of the most distinguished historians of Colonial America writing about such a thing. But it’s a wonderful piece and worth a read.
(Apologies for the untitled PDF. I’m downloading and up,landing from a tablet).
If a state prosecuted bestiality as animal cruelty then I honestly wouldn’t care if they had specific laws against bestiality. But if the reason they don’t have those laws is really because industries lobbied against those laws, that means those industries are sure enough in their anti-anti-animal-cruelty stance that they aren’t troubled siding with some the most reviled sexual deviants out there. I somehow doubt the state has other effective animal cruelty laws.