Bestiality A-OK in Florida

Florida, which has laws against gays adopting children, oral sex between adults of either gender, and erections that show through a man’s clothing, has no law whatsoever against people having sex with animals.

The recent arrest of a blind Tallahassee man accused of forcing sex on his guide dog highlights this egregious shortcoming.

Tallahassee Democrat:

…Alan Yoder, 29, originally was charged with felony animal cruelty, but court records show that charge was dropped last Friday and replaced with a misdemeanor – disorderly conduct.

Yoder now is charged with a “breach of the peace, by engaging in sexual activity with a guide dog,” according to a court document.

Wouldn’t you think, with all this attention to non-reproduction inspired sex, on people who have non-reproduction inspired sex, and on never, ever seeing evidence of one of the two components needed for reproduction inspired sex, that someone would have thought to outlaw frickin’ bestiality? Not in Florida.

The article doesn’t give the kind of details you’re looking for but it does tell how the asswipe got arrested.

…Yoder, who lives in a local apartment complex, last month asked a female acquaintance to join him in a sex act with the dog, a male yellow Labrador named “Lucky.”

She demurred, but later told a friend about it. That person called a social worker, who called police.

Investigators spoke to Yoder on June 16, who admitted performing certain sex acts with the dog, even going into detail with them, but denied doing others. He was arrested and booked June 22, charged with animal cruelty.

It’s not like this has never come up before. Florida’s had plenty of time to get its act together.

Last year, an Ocala man pleaded no contest to felony animal cruelty after being charged with having sex with his then-fiancee’s female Rottweiler, according to the Pet-Abuse.com Web site.

A judge withheld adjudication and ordered five years of probation and a psychological evaluation. He also prohibited the 27-year-old man from “owning pets of any kind while on probation and from having unsupervised contact with other people’s pets,” the site said.

I can’t begin to think what would make any man (in both cases) do this to any animal but how horrible is it in the Tallahassee case to do to a service dog — a dog that has been trained to do nothing but help, be loyal and trusted, and keep its lousy, rotten, disgusting owner out of harm’s way, even at its own peril?

In Florida, a 19-year-old who has sex with a 17-year-old has to wear a GPS unit for life, be pictured in the paper with every relocation, and not live within however many feet of a school, park, etc. But we do absolutely nothing to protect animals from deviants who are beyond the pale. I’m pissed.

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  1. It’s not illegal in Washington state, either, according to this AP story:
    SEATTLE — King County sheriff’s detectives are investigating possible animal cruelty at a farm near Enumclaw that apparently has attracted “a significant number of people” to have sex with animals, a sheriff’s spokesman said Thursday.

    The investigation was launched this month after authorities discovered the July 2 death of a man who suffered internal bleeding after engaging in anal sex with a horse at the farm, Sgt. John Urquhart said.

    Authorities are not releasing the man’s identity because the King County medical examiner has ruled his death accidental. The victim was in his 40s, Urquhart said.

    Investigators have interviewed several people in connection with the case, which was brought to authorities’ attention after the man was dropped off at a hospital for medical treatment. A surveillance camera picked up the license plate of the car, which led sheriff’s detectives to the farm and other people involved, Urquhart said.

    Bestiality is not illegal in Washington state.

    “Just sex with an animal per se, you’d have to prove some sort of animal cruelty out of that and that’s why we’ve got more investigating to do,” Urquhart said.

    “A significant number of people, we believe, have likely visited this farm,” he said, declining to specify a number while the investigation continues.

    The Humane Society of the United States intends to use the case during the next state legislative session as an example of why sex with animals should be outlawed in Washington, said Bob Reder, a Humane Society regional director in Seattle.

    “This and a few other cases that we have will allow us a platform to talk about sex abuse of animals,” Reder said.

    Thirty-three states have laws banning sex with animals, he said.

    Enumclaw is a rural town in southeast King County.

  2. Combined with this:

    A Tampa, Florida man beat his three year old son until he fell into a coma, because he feared the child might be gay.
    http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=1&id=6397

    one gets a horrifying image of the Deep South, still locked into the brutal 1900s, still being run by Good Ole Boys (not to be confused with Goodfellas) and suckerin the rubes with religion.

    My heart goes out to anyone down there working for change, it must be like being buried alive in ants.

  3. Some may find this post rather provacative, possibly even offensive, but it’s meant to ask difficult some questions and stimulate rational discussion.

    Having sex with animals isn’t right and people are justifiably shocked by it.

    But where do you draw the line. What if the person having the sex were a woman instead of a man? Would it still be considered animal cruelty?

    Is it cruelty to slaughter animals by the tens of thousands every day, or to make them serve us as we do with dogs and horses? Is it cruelty to keep pets isolated from others of their own species for their entire lives as most people do?

    Not defending dog “lovers” here, or advocating legalization, but if someone has no other outlet, where do they turn? Sex is a recognized human need. People who are starving for food will resort to extraordinary measures to get food, and most of those measures would be unacceptable under normal circumstances.

    One way or another society should make sure that there is some sort of alternative available so that people don’t have to resort to activities like this.

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