Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality

[IzzyBlanche]

I haven't posted much on this thread except for my one joke, but I think one thing Nova touched on earlier and that has been drowned out in the horror over bestiality bears repeating:

Compassion does not equal condoning.

Simplest analogy I can think of off the top of my head: a man robs a 7-11 for money to buy food because he lost his job and can't feed his kids.

I can feel compassion for his situation of crying hungry kids without condoning the action of robbery that he took to alleviate that situation.

Similarly, I can feel compassion for someone who has the very unusual sexual desire for animals (because really, how many things had to go wrong in that person's life, either nature or nurture, to cause that?) without condoning the actions that person takes to satisfy that desire. Especially given that there is, in my mind, no acceptable real-life outlet for that satisfaction.

And in real life if this person attempted to use any of my animals as such an outlet, I don't think I would hesitate to try to kill him or her with my bare hands.

But that doesn't change my opinion that having compassion for someone who exhibits bad behavior does not equal condoning that bad behavior.

 

[Sonya610]

I suspect the survey was about behaviors between consenting adults, such as those portrayed in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY. Discussing S&M and B&D might be a matter of personal safety for students with those tastes.

Yes but you see BDSM is not really that marginal is it? That is why the author of the paper didn't use that in the headline, not shocking enough because honestly most people don't care.

Unless you are walking your slave around on a dog leash in Walmart* (with kids watching) most people don't give a hoot about other people's BDSM relationships or interests.

(*I know someone who actually did that and was asked to leave the store..lol).

 

[txsvicki]

The Yale article says that the bestiality was on the survey. Surveys usually ask specific questions. I'm assuming people were asked to answer about the subject. Fantasies about incest were brought up during discussion. I still question why bestiality was on a survey at a school during a seminar trying to say that what we think is deviant is just normal sexual psychology. Literal beastiality is still against the law.