Bestiality
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Bestiality is the activity of having sex with animals. It is not to be confused with "dogging"[1] unless you hang out in some really tolerant car parks.
It is generally considered inappropriate, since an animal cannot give informed consent to the act (unlike the many other acts we use them in). If, however, the "animal" in question is an adult human in a dress-up outfit, while people won't "understand", they also won't prosecute.
The issue of consent is in no way complicated by the fact that many people who oppose bestiality may also eat meat, although animals cannot give informed consent to be raised for food, killed, butchered, and roasted or sauteed, and eaten with potatoes au gratin or some shallots and a nice glass of Chianti. Yum! Some societies consider it poor form to cook a sexual partner.
Bestiality was erroneously linked to homosexuality by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent to Lawrence v. Texas, where (in an effort to show that homosexuality should be legislated against) he made the slippery slope argument that if homosexuality (specifically, sodomy) is allowed, bestiality will be next. He failed to note that bestiality was effectively legal in Texas at the time he wrote his dissent.[2]
