Chief Tester, aka Sir Fartsalot, sent in some news that the Dutch may have come to their senses at last, as demonstrated by their recent ban of human-animal pornography. Prior to this month, this kind of stuff was legal as long as it could be proven that the animal wasn’t harmed, which is pretty ridiculous both from a subjective and elapsed time standpoint.
This won’t be the end of stuff like this, but it’ll certainly strike a dent – estimates peg The Netherlands as the distribution hub for around 80% of bestiality videos worldwide. By their nature, fetishes are one of the hardest things to veganize (and generally it just leads to new fetishes,) so legislation plays an important role here.
Here’s the thing that’s got me thinking tonight though – we live in a world where atrocities are committed against animals every second in the name of an entertaining meal, so I don’t see too much attention getting paid to bestiality, but what if it was given the same negative social weight as child pornography? Would computer-generated or other forms of simulated bestiality be banned? And if any attention at all were generated, would it impact society’s food choices at all?
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I think that you have it a little wrong here. Animal pornography was banned not out of desire to help animals, but because of the push to ban sexuality. The good analogy here would be GWBush saying that women in Afghanistan were being mistreated and trying to justify the war in Afghanistan with that… Bush wasn’t (and isn’t) a feminist, and neither did any government become vegan by limiting pornography.