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2022 University of Massachusetts Lowell Zoophilia Study & Survey

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Thanks for linking this, completed it as well. If there's one thing I've noticed is zoos come from all sorts of backgrounds and spheres. If they're trying to link higher rates of mental illness with this orientation... Well society in general has higher rates everywhere thanks to modernity. If anything I can only think of zoosexuals becoming more common due to degrading human gender relations and kids growing up in that. Like in my generation gen Z, a massive percentage identifies as LGBT. Interesting times.
 
so all this questionaire is to determine if im fucked up in the head, was abused as a child, have drug problems or other kind of stuff mentally wrong
 
FloofyNewfie said:
If I had to take a guess their angle is likely going to be "childhood trauma in relation to those that practice bestiality." It seems like many of the questions leaned towards that conclusion. I also have a couple of bones to pick with some of the wording when it came to a few of the questions...

Such as "Were you punched, slapped, kicked, or spanked as a child by your parents?" with the answers choices being "Never", "Once", "A few times" and "Often." And while I'd very occasionally receive a light slap to the back of the head if I was being naughty, or a spanking if I did something really REALLY bad, I definitely was not punched nor kicked by either of my parents. They really ought to have broken that up into 4 separate questions. Because I couldn't realistically answer "Never" to that question despite the way it was phrased. I'm hoping they don't take the response "A few times" and spin it into "The majority of zoophiles we surveyed were physically and violently abused as children." Because that's far from the truth in my case. But that remains to be seen I guess.

There was also a couple of other questions that kind of rubbed me the wrong way as it felt like they were attempting to "lead" you into a spinnable narrative, but that's the main one that bugged me off hand.
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I sent them an email about that and the other previously mentioned concern when I completed the survey. No reply. Hopefully they take the time to read these responses to develop more specific questions. But eh, typical biased "scientists". What can you do but just wait and hope for the scientific community to evolve. ?‍♂️
 
I felt very out of place. I'm on this forum because I derive sexual satisfaction from observing sexual activity in a broad sense, but I was surprised that there were no questions revolving around how one feels sexual desires and how it motivates their decisions.

I've always wondered where I am on the zoophilia spectrum because i've pretty much always felt comfortable with the pornography and have negative sexual reactions to violent porn in general, not just bestiality. I've never experienced sexual attraction to an animal and currently have a dog that i literally never feel the desire or compulsion to have a sexual encounter with.

It would be nice to see work being done in trying to understand a, perhaps, moral and ethical approach to understanding this sexual phenomenon rather than viewing it as an issue of sexual and physical abuse versus quasi sociopathetic tendencies being the underlying cause i.e. "have you ever taken advantage of some one" and other questions pointing to a lack of perception of consent.

I'm also posting for literally the first time because i've spent my life being an observer of this community and derive some sort of sexual satisfaction/parasitism from it and hope the people carrying out this survey see there may be outliers. Maybe i just have some sort of psycho-sexual phenomena going on that I am not aware of but outside of active participants of zoophilia, what is there to say of passive participants?
is it just the outcome of the internet and broad access to pornographic material?

Either way, I took the survey and feel like my responses make it sound like a random civilian took it.
 
While I was originally optimistic that providing a lack of correlation with their assumptions would be productive, lead them to ask different questions, upon further thought I'm not certain of that. Negative (non-statistically-significant) results are rarely published, and thus would not inform the greater scientific community.

I have to wonder whether a better approach would be to not engage with research that is plainly so biased towards a perspective of dysfunction and abuse.
 
Well, I couldn't get past "What is the highest level of education that you have received?" because a Master's Degree wasn't listed as one of the response options.

In my current and previous jobs I've sometimes had to design and administer surveys, and I need people to respond to my surveys, so when I receive a survey I generally want to help out by completing it. However, I usually don't finish or submit the surveys I begin because the questions are unclear or otherwise problematic and/or the response options are too limited. The instructions for completing surveys usually say something like "choose the best response." I understand that it may not be possible to include every possible response option, but if there isn't a response option reasonably close to the actual answer, that's when I stop. I'm concerned that the results of a survey that are "missing" response options that really should be there will be inaccurate and misleading and could lead to the wrong conclusions, and I don't want to contribute to that. When I see a poorly designed survey, it leaves me with the impression that the researcher doesn't really understand what they are really asking or why they are asking it, and I feel like if the researcher can't be bothered to develop an instrument that will enable them to collect accurate and useful data, then participating is a waste of my time because the results of the survey won't be valid.
 
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Well, I couldn't get past "What is the highest level of education that you have received?" because a Master's Degree wasn't listed as one of the response options.

In my current and previous jobs I've sometimes had to design and administer surveys, and I need people to respond to my surveys, so when I receive a survey I generally want to help out by completing it. However, I usually don't finish or submit the surveys I begin because the questions are unclear or otherwise problematic and/or the response options are too limited. The instructions for completing surveys usually say something like "choose the best response." I understand that it may not be possible to include every possible response option, but if there isn't a response option reasonably close to the actual answer, that's when I stop. I'm concerned that the results of a survey that are "missing" response options that really should be there will be inaccurate and misleading and could lead to the wrong conclusions, and I don't want to contribute to that. When I see a poorly designed survey, it leaves me with the impression that the researcher doesn't really understand what they are really asking or why they are asking it, and I feel like if the researcher can't be bothered to develop an instrument that will enable them to collect accurate and useful data, then participating is a waste of my time because the results of the survey won't be valid.
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Actually a "other - write here" field and a final "observations" comment are useful for this. They missed it here.
It would not have stadistical values, but the analist can use those answer to decide if the person is valid for the study, or including it could distort the survey results.
 
Like so many of these so called unbiased study's you have to look at the funding behind them , often very difficult as the agenda of some funding is far from unbiased .
I took the survey and quite a few people have highlighted its shortcomings i won't reiterate there comments .
There are study's unpublished after problems with peer review the most notable the joint effort by Oxford Leipzig and Amsterdam .
5 years and around 10.000 participants resigned to the waste paper basket,
 
Awaiting an operational approval from the staff and community leadership I have different interests here and it's not an online poll either.
 
Not the first survey i have taken the last was on individuals who's sexuality was exercised before the age of consent .
Some very close similarities in the questions in certain sections looking for early life Trauma self awareness and self worth .
It seems that they all look for something to blame for our often reasoned behaviour .
 
Stash said:
so all this questionaire is to determine if im fucked up in the head, was abused as a child, have drug problems or other kind of stuff mentally wrong
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:) Ya that's how I'm reading it too. We gotta shake a little sense into them we are people too and have jobs and self control, and the other 5,000 yards too.
 
Man... i'm not patient enough to answer So many questions. And for me as native German, it's hard to answer fully in english UwU
You guys do your best. Can't wait to read the final Study results
 
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As with all social science research, the result of the present study is most likely a not entirely unequivocal accumulation of 'hard' facts, based fairly haphazardly on sometimes rather dubiously worded questions, resulting in even more questionable quantitative and qualitative interpretations: in short, every reason for follow-up studies that provide even more ambiguity.
 
ZTHorse said:
The University of Massachusetts Lowell is conducting an anonymous zoophilia study using an online survey that will take no more than 30 minutes to complete.

Study Title: Predictive Factors in the Emergence of Zoophilic Tendencies (IRB Protocol 22-168-GON-XPD)

Research staff:

Dr. Joseph Gonzalez, faculty supervisor and primary investigator

Patrick Barrasso, student researcher

Zooville.org has been in conversation and has verified that the study is legitimate with a proper letter of intent of using this forum as a survey base. If possible, we highly suggest that you conduct the survey as truthfully as possible and within your margins of personal anonymity. Scientific research into our sexual orientation is always welcomed, and I am glad to have aided them in opening up zooville to them.

The Letter of Intent is posted below.

Best Regards,
ZTHorse

Study Link - https://umasslowell.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7QDYZ6A7VqLqt8O

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Hope all these studies will help one day to get a positive response and will teach this illiterate society what really is happening...❤️
 
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