Dutch wrote:
"Martin Willett" wrote
Why is sex with animals considered wrong? Is this something to do with the
rights of animals, the moral duties of man or the nature of consent?

I think that it's mainly a cultural taboo, rather than an actual "wrong"
act, assuming the animal is not harmed, like showing the soles of your feet
in China, something like that. The roots of the taboo are likely pretty
obscure, maybe related to early religious beliefs.



There is also the issue of hygiene. Would you like to go to the
witch-doctor and explain the circumstances that lead up to your penis
turning green and your goat cease milking? Several of our instinctive
revulsions coincide with reasonable and rational prudence. For example
we have a notion of contagion which is built in to us, sometimes it
misfires with things such as irrational menstrual taboos but in many
cases it does lead us to do the right thing such as remove a corpse and
dispose of things that came in contact with the corpse and to be
revolted by faeces, flies and rats and see things that have come into
contact with them as defiled and unclean in an unseen but frightening
way: we're instinctive microbiologists!
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Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/