The fact is, some animals CAN be forced into sexual relations with a human. That is rape. On the other hand, animals can be trained to find sex with humans enjoyable. Face it, sex is sex, whether with your own kind, or outside your species. If you try to force a large animal in to having sex with you, it will defend itself. Animals ARE NOT children. You can train an animal to run and fetch a Frisbee and bring it back, and the last time I checked, there are no Frisbees growing naturally in the wild. Your definition of natural should be reconsidered.
If you think an animal cannot give consent, then you have not been around animals much. Sure, it isn’t verbal, but since when are animals able to speak English, or Swahili, or Pakistani? These are all examples and I am not saying anything about Africans or Asians in reference to using those particular types of language. Animals react to humans via body language. 90% of our relationships with our animal companions is non-verbal.
Anyone who has an animal as a pet knows that animals are willing to please their keepers. You can teach your dog to sit up for a biscuit, and you can teach a horse to accept a saddle and bridle. It is the same with sexual interactions. Like humans, animals enjoy the feelings of sex. How could they not, as it is a physiological reaction to external stimuli hard-wired into our brains. Whether you think it is right or wrong is a judgment call.
If cake decorating was suddenly defined as a felony, @DrasticDreamer would be going to jail. Those who are quick to judge before all the facts are in are not playing fair. But hey, if people on Fluther want to be a bunch of self-righteous judmental assholes over someone else’s particular sexual fetish, well have at it. It makes you no better than the zealots that espouse Islam is the only way, or that non-Christian apostates should be burned at the stake. that is true Christian history, and it happened for hundreds of years, like it or not.
What you see as bestiality porn on the Internet is not what the majority of folks I’ve known that are into zoophilia see as normal. Sexual acts are seen as sharing, and done in private out of love and respect, not the filth you see at beast sex dot com or whatever. That is for the voyeurs.
I have a belief, and that belief is: The only sexual abberation I find unnatural is celibacy.
I bet there’s a few people that wish they hadn’t put me in their Fluther now. };^)