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chico chupacabra

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> chico chupacabra wrote:
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>>It's classified in DSM-IV as a paraphilia.
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> "There is presently considerable debate in psychology over whether
> certain aspects of zoophilia are better understood as an aberration or
> as an orientation.

It's not very considerable. As it was with declassification of
homosexuality, which was listed in prior DSMs as a paraphilic disorder,
there is a very small group of activists bent on re- or declassifying
paraphilias in toto. This activism is based on politics, not on science.

> The activity or desire itself is no longer
> classified as a pathology under DSM-IV (TR) (the Diagnostic and
> Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association) unless
> accompanied by distress or interference with normal functioning on the
> part of the person,

Meanwhile, other disorders like psychopathy and sociopathy are diagnosed
per axes rather than how the patient feels about himself and how he's
functioning.

> and research has broadly been supportive of at
> least some of zoophiles' central claims. Critics point out that that
> DSM-IV says nothing about acceptability or the well-being of the
> animal,

Which is irrelevant. The sexually-depraved patient doesn't get brownie
points for feeding the dog he just raped -- and, absent the dog's
consent, that's exactly what it is: rape.

> and many critics outside the field express views that sexual
> acts with animals are always either abusive or unethical. Defenders of
> zoosexuality argue that a human/animal relationship can go far beyond
> sexuality, and that animals are capable of forming a genuinely loving
> relationship that can last for years and which is not functionally
> different from any other love/sex relationship."

You mean aside from the fact that your sheep can't drive to the store
for aspirin after you've abused it the way a real girlfriend, from your
own species, would.

> (Wikipedia, "Zoophilia")

I wish Wikipedia would list authors/contributors so we'd know exactly
who wrote that.