Sies! Man arrested after sex with cat
A VERULAM man was arrested on Friday for bestiality after his neighbour allegedly caught him naked and penetrating her pet cat.
Prem Balram‚ for security firm Reaction Unit South Africa‚ said that the man’s neighbour had raised the alarm.
“She informed the controller on duty that her neighbour was having sex with her pet cat. The woman had walked to his residence to investigate when she found the naked man holding the cat by rear legs and penetrating the animal‚” he said.
“The woman informed our officers that she wanted the man removed from the premises. Officers entered the home and found him dressing‚” he said.
Balram added that the SPCA had been called to attend to the injured animal.
“The suspect was handed over to the South African Police‚” he said. Police spokespersons were not available for comment at the time of publishing.
Why engage in bestiality?
In 2016, Denmark passed a law making bestiality a criminal offence in a move to tackle animal-sex tourism. Bestiality (also known as zoophilia) is typically defined as relating to recurrent intense sexual fantasies, urges, and sexual activities with non-human animals. At present, there are still a number of countries where zoophilia is legal including Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Finland, Hungary, and Romania. In the US there is no federal law against zoophilia although most states class it as a felony and/or misdemeanour although in some states it is technically legal (for example, Texas, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Wyoming, West Virginia, and New Mexico).
Dr Alfred Kinsey shocked the US back in the 1950s when his infamous “Kinsey Reports” claimed that 8% of males and 4% females had at least one sexual experience with an animal. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was a much higher prevalence for zoophilic acts among people that who worked on farms (for instance, 17% males had experienced an orgasmic episode involving animals). According to Kinsey, the most frequent sexual acts that humans engaged in with animals comprised calves, sheep, donkeys, large fowl (ducks, geese), dogs and cats.
In the 1970s, world renowned sexologist Professor John Money claimed that zoophilic behaviours were usually transitory occurring when there is no other sexual outlet available. However, research carried out in the 2000s shows this not be the case. Up until the advent of the internet, almost every scientific or clinical study reported on zoophilia were case reports of individuals that has sought treatment for their unusual sexual preference. However, the internet brought many like-minded people together and there are dozens of websites where zoophiles chat to each other online and share their videos including the Beast Forum, the largest online zoophile community in the world with tens of thousands of members.
Almost all of the recently published studies have collected their data online from nonclinical samples. All of these studies report that the overwhelming majority of self-identified male and female zoophiles do not have sex with animals because there is no other sexual outlet, but do so because it is their sexual preference. The most common reasons for engaging in zoophilic relationships were attraction to animals out of either a desire for affection, and a sexual attraction toward and/or a love for animals. — Sowetan.co.za/independent.co.uk