Extraordinarily contentious journal article claims having sex with dogs is ‘morally permissible’

An extremely controversial magazine article argues that sex with your dog is ‘morally permissible’.

The opinion was published in the aptly named Journal of Controversial Ideas.

The author – who chose to remain anonymous – acknowledged that their views on zoophilia would cause “pure outrage.”

Sharing their thoughts, they wrote: ‘There’s actually nothing wrong with sex with animals: it’s not an inherently problematic sexual practice.’

Zoophilia should be considered an ‘orientation’ in the same way as heterosexuality and bisexuality, the article controversially argued.

And the piece wondered why it is different from “lovingly caressing” your pet.

Under current UK law, sex with an animal is illegal and punishable by up to two years in prison. Viewing or owning people having intercourse with animals is also against the law.

In the magazine, the author pointed to a study suggesting that dozens of men have “expressed sexual interest in penetrating an animal.”

Their commentary piece said: ‘The appeal of zoophilia is also reflected in the wealth of zoo pornography available on the Internet.

‘It turns out that zoophilia is more common than we might think.’

The piece shared two made-up examples involving humans in an attempt to justify the author’s views.

One involved ‘Alice’ having a ‘romantic relationship with her dog’. The explanation of their relationship goes much further, but both find it ‘satisfying’.

The author said her story “illustrates a continuity between zoophilia and loving relationships that ordinary people have with their pets.”

Expanding on their thinking, they added: ‘What makes lovingly stroking your cat on a different ethical level than sexually stroking your cat?

“If there is no clear line between the ordinary love expressed by animal keepers and the romantic love expressed by some zoophiles, why accept one and not the other?”

Another example involves Bob, who ‘loves his dog’ and lets him lick honey from him intimately.

Writing under the pseudonym Fira Bensto, the author said that not all forms of zoophilia are morally permissible.

This, they claimed, applies in the same way that ‘the permissibility of heterosexuality does not mean that all cases of heterosexuality are permissible’.

It comes months after a 25-year-old man was caught having sex with a cow.

Liam Brown sneaked into a farm in Burton, near Christchurch, Dorset, in the dead of night to commit the dastardly act.

But he was spotted by the farm’s surveillance system and caught on the spot by farmers who rushed to the scene to arrest him.