Animal Love and Human Beings

Since the beginning of history, humans have thought about, dreamed about, and practiced using animals to satisfy their sexual purposes. These deeds are also evident in myths, folklore stories, literature, paintings, and sculptures. Many ancient religious temples and paintings on pottery walls contain images and inscriptions of sexual intercourse between humans and animals. It is obvious that ancient humans often engaged in bestiality. Evidence shows that bestiality began at least 40,000 to 25,000 years ago. For example, an inscribed bone staff from the late Ice Age found in France shows a lioness licking a huge penis or vulva; a seventh-century Iron Age cave painting depicts a man inserting his penis into a A donkey's vagina or anus; ancient rock art found in Siberia also shows a man having sex with an elk. An image of a man having sex with a cow was found in another cave in France. In Libya in the 5th millennium BC, there was also a painting on a rock of an animal that looked like a fox or a dog having sex with a woman. Other Bronze Age rock paintings depicting bestiality have been found in southwestern Sweden, showing a man inserting his penis under the tail of a quadruped. Even if these ancient people did not actually have sex with animals, they clearly loved them and made no secret of expressing these desires in paintings and engravings, and bestiality images often emphasize the power of the human penis.

The Near East has a very ambivalent approach to bestiality, which varies from time to time. In the Babylonian region, the sixth king of the first dynasty revised the old Somarian laws and created the new Hamrabic Code, which clearly stipulated that bestiality must be punished by death, and male bestiality would be tied to the object of bestiality. All of them were burned to death. But the spring fertility festivals in Babylon would use dogs to maintain a constant carnival scene for seven consecutive days. People would tease the dogs until they became erect, and used them to satisfy the sexual needs of men and women until the crowd got tired of the dogs or until The dogs were exhausted to death. If the dog dies, its penis is cut off and dried to be used in the next fertility festival. In the 13th century BC, the Greeks believed that having sex with a cow or dog was punishable by death; but at the same time, if a man had sex with a horse or donkey, he would not be punished. For a while, the Hebrews also believed that having sex with animals was like homosexuality, an act of worshiping other gods in other religions. However, in the end the Hebrews deviated from the traditions of other peoples in the Holy Land of Canaan. In the Bible Sexual intercourse with any animal is strictly prohibited in the Old Testament, and even the depiction of God with the head or body of an animal, like the Egyptians and Greeks, was considered a blasphemy. In this way, the view of bestiality as sin appears in the Bible. It is recorded in the Jewish Holy Book of Commentary on the Bible: "Jews must not engage in pedophilia or bestiality." A widow is not even allowed to keep a pet dog to prevent her from having a relationship with a dog. Deuteronomy 23:18 of the Old Testament records: “You shall not bring into the house of the LORD your God the money from a prostitute or the price of a prostitute [originally called a dog], for both are the property of the LORD your God. "Abominable." According to Dubois-Desaulle's translator A. F. N. (1933), this seems to imply that there was an organized, commercial, and religious bestiality industry at that time, which specialized in renting out trained dogs to serve the public. , and their monetary proceeds were given to the temple.

In ancient Egypt, Egyptian gods were presented as part human and part animal, because people believed that living creatures shared the spirituality of the gods. For example, in Egyptian mythology, the goddess Mut, whom the great god Amon loved, was in the form of a cow, and the cat goddess Bast had a human lover. As early as the third millennium BC, bestiality has been recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs on the walls of Egyptian tombs. Many people know that Egyptian women would have sex with rams, and men would have sex with ewes. The most famous example is the Sheep of Mendes. This sheep is regarded as the physical manifestation of the god of fertility. In temples where it is worshiped, many men and women will engage in worship-style bestiality with trained sheep.

In addition, bestiality was also used to cure nymphomaniacs. Temples would lock these women with trained goats until the goats were too tired to have sex with the women, and then the women were cured. Queen Hatasu of Egypt was known to have a preference for women, and she once trained dogs to perform oral sex on her. Many people believe that the Apis bull is the incarnation of Osiris, so there will be many female attendants in the temple to serve it, sexually tease it, and the female priests will perform penis worship rituals on the bull, and finally have sex with the bull. In addition, the Egyptians believed that the bull's semen had magical properties, so the bull's female attendants had the responsibility to collect the bull's semen through oral sex, masturbation or vaginal intercourse. After the bull dies, its penis will be cut off, preserved and inlaid with gold. Placing this penis in the vagina of the deceased queen is a great honor for the queen. The famous Queen Cleopatra is said to have had a box filled with bees that she would place around her vagina to stimulate herself. However, whether bestiality is punished depends on who is in power in Egypt, as well as the status and wealth of the person who engages in bestiality. Regardless, the Egyptians never punished the animal side of bestiality.

The gods in Greek mythology often turned into various animals to have sex with humans or other gods. Zeus is the leader among them. He once raped Demeter in the form of a bull and gave birth to Persephone. Then Zeus had sex with the daughter in the form of a snake. He also had sex with Europa in the form of a bull and with Leda in the form of a swan. The Minotaur is said to be the son of King Minos of Crete and the son of his queen and a bull. Because the king wanted to strengthen his legitimacy, he asked Poseidon to raise a bull from the sea in order to sacrifice it to show his personal power. Poseidon then created a white cow that swam to the shore, but the king liked the white cow very much, so he decided to keep it for his own use and use another cow to sacrifice. When Poseidon found out, he felt insulted and decided to take revenge by making the queen fall in love with the white bull. The queen then asked the carpenter Daedalus to help make a wooden cow as big as a real cow, with a hollow in the middle for the queen to lie inside and wait. When the bull had sex with the wooden cow, he actually penetrated the hole in the cow to have sex with the queen. They had sexual intercourse and later gave birth to a Minotaur with a human body and a bull's head. The story essentially revolves around the worship of the bull as a symbol of fertility, a cult that was widespread in Crete and elsewhere long before the Hellenistic period. During the Dionysian festival, there will be many drunken people engaging in bestiality during religious celebrations at night to praise Dionysus. Although the Greeks regarded sexual intercourse between humans and dogs as a shameful thing, they had numerous temples with countless specially trained dogs to perform bestiality worship rituals. The Greeks also believed that bestiality, like the ancient Egyptians, had divine powers that could cure nymphomaniacs.

In Roman mythology, many lovers appeared in the form of donkeys and pythons, and many women had sex with gorillas, bulls, bears, horses, ponies, wolves, crocodiles and goats. The Romans liked to see scenes of bestiality between gods and humans in mythology in theaters. A very popular scene at that time was the aforementioned Greek mythology in which the Queen of Crete had sex with a white bull and gave birth to the Minotaur, a monster with a body and a face. The Romans even invented scenes in which women were raped and men were bestialized in arenas or circuses. Public bestiality was very popular in ancient Rome. This can be regarded as the earliest successful commercialization of animal sex in history. A popular performance at that time was to tie female slaves or Romans who had offended powerful people in chains, and then release a group of sexually stimulated animals. Women usually could not escape this kind of gang rape, and sometimes they were killed in order to save themselves. , women will masturbate for these animals. This kind of performance usually uses dogs as a warm-up show, because sex with dogs is less life-threatening for women, and finally lets horses rape her. Many Roman upper class people enjoyed having sex with animals, and Roman ladies would train snakes to wrap around their thighs, crawl across their labia, and suck on their nipples. The Roman emperors Claudius and Nero were both said to be obsessed with bestiality and held many bestiality events.

Claudius often tied a woman to a wooden frame in the shape of a giant cross and then let a stallion or dog rape her. When Nero held orgies, he would force senators to have sex with pigs, and also force the wives of congressmen to have sex with trained dogs in public. If a congressman protested, he would be forced to have oral sex with Nero's animals. Once, he even imported a Hundreds of newborn camels, and guests are required to have anal sex with the animals. Originally, the Romans had no laws prohibiting bestiality, but only had to pay special taxes for bestiality. However, after the establishment of the Roman Empire, they began to punish anal sex, and bestiality was also included. Later, bestiality was further distinguished from anal sex. Sentenced to death. However, as the empire grew larger and more corrupted by power, the punishment for bestiality became less and less.