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Zoophilia in history

K9Evangelist said:
Very few people have the courage to take an objective stand that might show tolerance to zoos.
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And anybody cares because? Has there been some new regulation passed that says we're supposed to announce ourselves as animal fuck(er/ee)s?

If not, outside of discussions with someone *VERY* trusted, or (even rarer) someone already known beyond any question to also be zoo, what possible reason could there be for one to bother to bring the subject up in the first place?

Seems to me that doing so isn't just ASKING for trouble, it's sending trouble an engraved invitation, complete with a pre-stamped RSVP card, and an offer to send around a limo.

Or maybe it's just me living a sheltered life, since I have no recollection of more than a couple of clowns (that I ceased having much, if anything, to do with after they decided that the topic was good for some lunchtime conversation) that thought their sex life, be it straight, gay, or getting it on with a moose, was something of interest to anyone other themselves.
 
Sinologist Robert van Gulik mentions in his 1961 book Sexual Life in Ancient China (p.167) that voluntary bestiality is "very rare in pre-Ch'ing literature" (i.e. before 1644CE), and that there is only one known voluntary bestiality story from this period, as the rest are merely variations of this one. This story was compiled during the Tang period (618-907). It took me a while to find, so here it is (as retold by this dissertation in russian):
In the Xiao Xiang Lu (瀟湘錄) of the Tang scholar Li Yin, there is a story called “The Werewolf Dog” (Quan Yao 犬妖) about the wife of a certain Du Xiuji, who had sex with a white dog, which kidnapped her and carried her off to the mountains, where she became his wife and later gave birth to a son. After the dog’s death, the woman returned to her family, and her son became a robber.

“Du Xiuji of Zhao was a skilled physician. His beautiful wife, the daughter of the rich man Xue Yun, was a lazy and dissolute woman by nature. In Xiuji’s house there was a white dog, which he loved very much, and always treated him to exquisite dishes. [One day] after eating, Xiuji left, and his dog ran into the inner chamber, wanting to bite Xiuji's wife, Lady Xue. The woman, as if intending to secretly engage in illicit relations again, asked him in amazement: "Do you really want to become my lover? If so, then do not bite me." The dog immediately wagged its tail and climbed onto her bed. Lady Xue was frightened, but she still had relations with the dog. The dog was just like a human. Afterwards, whenever Xiuji left, they indulged in unrestrained debauchery.

One day, just as they were lying together in the chamber, Xiuji suddenly entered. Seeing this, he wanted to kill the dog, but the dog ran away. Xiuji became angry and sent his wife back to her father's house. Half a year later, the dog suddenly ran into Xue Yun's house, grabbed Madam Xue and carried her away on its back. The household tried to catch the dog, but they failed, they did not know where it went. And the dog hid with Madam Xue in the Hengshan Mountains. Every night he came down from the mountains to steal food, and during the day he guarded Madam Xue.

A year later, Madam Xue became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. Although he looked like a man, his whole body was covered in white fur. Madam Xue raised him in the mountains. Another year later, the dog suddenly died, and Madam Xue and her son took a winding path down from the mountains and came to Jizhou to beg for food. People learned about this and went with Xue Yun to tell about it. Xue Yun immediately ordered her to be taken home.

Years passed, Madam Xue's son was 17 years old, his appearance was ugly, his character was cruel. Every time he went out to commit robbery, he did not return earlier than ten days or even several months later. Xue Yun was very upset by this and wanted to kill him. Madam Xue, crying, said to her son: “You are the son of a white dog, I did not dare to kill you when you were a child. Now you live in the Xue house, how can you be disrespectful? If you continue to commit robbery, the people of the Xue family will definitely kill you. I am afraid that you will implicate others, this should be corrected.” Her son, sobbing, said: “I was born with a dog's character, I do not have a human heart, the love of murder and robbery is my nature, how can I overcome it? If Xue Yun can forgive me, let him forgive me, if he cannot, let him just tell me directly, why kill me? Mother must protect her honor, so I will go far away and not return." Lady Xue tried to stop him, but he did not listen, then she said: "You can go, but will you never come to visit me again? I am your mother, how can I bear it that we will never see each other again?" Her son began to cry again and said: "In three years, I will return."

Then he took his sword, bowed to his mother and left. Three years later, her son actually came to the gate at the head of a crowd of more than a thousand bandits, calling himself a general. He entered and bowed to his mother. And then he ordered the bandits to kill Xue Yun's family, leaving only his mother alive. Then he burned the manor, took his mother and left" [Xiao xiang lu, n.d.].
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Here's a curious bit from the older book Book of the Eskimos by Peter Freuchen (pg.99), specially relating to Hudson Bay Eskimos:
[Sexual] Relations with dogs were apparently not uncommon, and no shame seemed to be attached to it. The same was the case where dead caribou and seal were involved, although it must be said that men who resorted to this procedure were thought to be rather ridiculous.

I know of the cases of two wealthy hunters, with two wives each, who had frequent relations with dogs. And there were even special taboo rules to observe during such a romance. The intercourse had to take place when the dog was in heat, out of respect for its natural instincts. About a man who was mentioned as an ardent devotee of this means of obtaining sexual satisfaction, it was said that he once hurt his collarbone because he tried intercourse with she-dogs out of season. An evil spirit struck him with sickness to punish him for seeking love with a dog at the wrong time.

Copulation with dogs must always take place out in the open. The only place where cover might be sought was where two ice floes in the pack ice stood up against each other, so as to form a small shelter.

Then there is the age-old tale of another woman, who had relations with her dog and bore young which were dogs with human hands and hairless bodies. She had been confined in the open air in the shelter of some rocks, but her fellow-villagers had been ashamed of her and had pushed stones down over her and crushed her and her brood. The Eskimos believed firmly in the truth of this account.

Sometimes, sexual abnormalities were believed to give magical powers, as in the case of the man who was believed to be a great shaman because he had relations with his mother.

Incest was frowned upon, but in all cases of sexual deviations it was the rule that they were not to be concealed, that they had to be confessed openly. Only when the doer kept it a secret to himself was he believed to be possessed by an evil spirit (our equivalent of being sinful). As long as he talked openly about it to other people, it was considered to be a matter of no great consequence!
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Almost any Greek or Roman mythology. Zeus (Jupiter) was pretty horny and converted himself into animals. Come to think of it. pagan mythology may be the reason the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are so down on bestiality. You wouldn't see so much preaching against it if people weren't doing it.
 
ZTHorse said:
I wanted a thread to free post snippets, pics or accounts of zoophilia in history. This includes governments, religions, past customs and anything else related to zoo history from the past. I think it is good to see how peoples over time have views on zoophilia have changed.
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The secret of the past. I love it.
 
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