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MISCELLANEOUS SEX OFFENDERS: ANIMAL CONTACT

We have in our sample of sex offenders only five cases of individuals legally punished for sexual behavior with animals. While this number is too small to permit meaningful generalizations, we cannot simply ignore these cases any more than a zoologist could ignore a new species because only five specimens were known.

In our society an amazing amount of shame surrounds sexual activity with animals. Despite its frequency among country boys, it is one of the most taboo of all sexual acts, one toward which society reacts with both condemnation and ridicule. A more potent combination can scarcely be imagined. An outcast or rebel may endure or even enjoy social condemnation, but no one can long tolerate ridicule. Even in circles where statistically unusual sexual practices are regarded as interesting eccentricities, bestiality is a matter for contempt. A man might not conceal his homosexuality, he might enjoy a notoriety because of his fetishism or sadism, but he would shrink from letting his animal contacts be known.

It is not too surprising (although disappointing) that all five of our cases not only denied the offense to us, but denied any other animal contact. Moreover, they did not report any fantasies or dreams of sexual behavior with animals and denied any sexual arousal from watching animals in coitus.

The animals involved in the five cases include dogs, cows, chickens, and a mare. The ages of the males at the time of offense were sixteen, sixteen, “in youth,” twenty-six, and about thirty-eight.

The sociosexual fives of the five men are not unusual. Their hetero-sexuality falls within ordinary limits. Of the four full-fledged adults (one of the five cases was a sixteen-year-old when interviewed), all had had coitus with prostitutes, but only two had relied heavily upon them. Two had married. Three of the five had had sexual activity with other males, but only one had a strong homosexual history.

Four of the males came from broken homes—a high percentage. One had always lived in cities, two had always been rural, and two had been temporarily rural in their teens before their animal contact offenses. It is possible that this background predisposed them to animal contact.

Two were heavy drinkers and a third had been truly alcoholic-totaling three of the four adults. Drugs seem not to have been involved. Two (one of them the sixteen-year-old) were mentally dull, but the others were average.

Excepting the sixteen-year-old, all the men had antisocial tendencies, essentially offenses against property—thefts. Two had, in addition, some sex offenses. One man who had twice been convicted of molesting young girls was an authentic sex offender; the other was at worst only technically an offender, having been convicted at age eighteen for coitus with a willing girl three years his junior.

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