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To: Elroy who wrote (239757)	8/22/2007 12:24:22 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for another clear display of your bigotry. Beastiality is a sickening perversion but you managed to make it a slam on Muslim culture. Don't let the following impact your views though. Stay atop your lofty beer barrel bandwagon of arrogance. We in America are way ahead. We've advanced to the stage of clinically acceptable sounding terminology like zoophilia, or zooerasty. There are rallies and support groups. The poor beastial Americans are mostly stuck in the city where they don't have access to animals... just the same: Scientific surveys estimating the frequency of zoosexual activity, as well as anecdotal evidence and informal surveys, suggest that more than 1–2% — and perhaps as many as 8–40% — of sexually active adults have had significant sexual experience with an animal at some point in their lives. Studies suggest that a larger number (perhaps 10–30% depending on area) have fantasized or had some form of brief encounter. Larger figures such as 40–60% for rural teenagers (living on or near livestock farms) have been cited from some earlier surveys such as the Kinsey reports, but some later writers consider these uncertain.[4] Anecdotally, Nancy Friday's 1973 book on female sexuality My Secret Garden comprised around 190 women's contributions; of these, some 8% volunteered a serious interest or active participation in zoosexual activity.[5] Psychiatric patients were found to have a statistically significant higher prevalence rate (55%) of bestiality (both actual sexual contacts and sexual fantasy) than the control groups of medical in-patients (10%) and psychiatric staff (15%).[6] An internet survey of sexuality run by the internet survey site survey.net obtained 76,500 responses between October 2000 and December 2006. Responses to the non-specifically worded question "What sexual aspects are you into?" with options "curious/mild/heavy" included: Bestiality-curious 8671 (11.3%); Bestiality-mild 4582 (6.0%); Bestiality-heavy 3133 (4.1%). The respondents by age and gender were 67% male / 31% female; 12.1% age under 18 / 55.0% age 18-30 / 32.9% age over 31.[7] A second internet survey on an entertainment website of around 6000 respondents which asked "Have you ever had sex with an animal" amongst several other unusual sexual acts, gave a result of 742 (13%) "sometimes" and 95 (2%) "frequently", with 1% preferring not to say.[8] However, although open surveys with large response rates such as these may be suggestive, it is rarely clear how representative such surveys may be. en.wikipedia.org