I always was a very different kid, never really fit in, very few friends and often bullied in school…I guess that taught me from early age on to just do my own thing and just ignore the talk and actions of the others and the main stream folks.
Combined with growing up in a very rural area with more livestock and pets in our tiny village than humans, the connections to animals came natural. I started horseback riding very early and beefed up my pocket money mucking the cow barn at the neighbours small dairy.
As a teenager then you heard the stories of guys ‘doing it’ with animals and who got caught doing what.
Sex with animals wasn’t accepted as a norm by any means, but it wasn’t blown up either. Bestiality was legal when I lived in Germany as a teen and if somebody got caught, it was just joked about, nobody got shunned, so really there were little consequences being zoo.
As I matured sexually and still wasn’t the popular kid in class, I needed an outlet for my sexual needs and being around horses and cows all day made access to animals very easy.
So for me it was a natural development and I had intercourse with cows and mares long before I ever intimately touched another human (and that was another boy, not a girl, so I definitely knew I was wired differently!)
My family (other than grandma) never was overly religious and we always talked open about everything, so I really never had to hold back a whole lot.
With 19 I met a girl and we actually hit it off well, so ended up getting married to her (still married to her for over 35 years) and yes, she know, accepts, tolerates and even supports my zoo and gay adventures…so do my 2 adult daughters.
I always accepted me and my sexuality as it was and got accepted by the people I cared about…it’s a small, but great circle of humans….all others I couldn’t care less!
So, I really never had to come to terms with my sexual orientation or my other quirks (there are many!)
Today I have made my life, build my ranching business and am generally liked within our community (at least I think so)
I am definitely widely known for some of my very obvious non-sexual eccentricities and have never joined any main stream movement.
I am still the very different, eccentric (weird) person I was as a kid, but fully embrace my lifestyle and my sexuality, found my happiness and my place in this world!