Usually the bestiality stories that PervScan features are shockers, headliners, tales of deviant deeds wrought in bold type, scandalized communities, “Gosh, Bob was always a good neighbor. I never knew he was also a pig-fucker.” But recently there were also three less notorious tales of animal sex that made their way into the news. These were stories on a smaller scale, two of them not outright acts of bestiality but rather implications, imprecations, innuendoes. But they all seemed interesting, and if there is any moral to be drawn from them, perhaps they seem to say that bestiality has become so prevalent — especially thanks to the internet — that sometimes it fails even to be spectacularly scandalous.

At any rate, the first story concerns a twenty-year-old guy in Zimbabwe. Here is the gist of it: “Luazi Dube, of Plumtree, and herdsman at Jinaxwa cattle post in the Central District, is alleged to have had carnal knowledge of a goat in June last year, which is against the order of nature.” That’s it. A farmer getting it on with a goat. There’s not much to say about it, really, though one thing comes to mind. Goats are notorious for being willing to eat anything. Will they also tolerate anything sexually?

The second story involves an “embattled pastor” being forced to resign from his post due to allegations of sexual misconduct. One of the former altar boys filing a lawsuit against him claims: “From time to time, Father Richard invited me to his bedroom, which made me uncomfortable and afraid… Father Richard discussed bestiality with my brother and me, and seemed to imply he had participated in bestiality.” Well, Father Richard may or may not be a deviant cleric, but it’s not really so strange that a pastor should discuss bestiality with his congregants. After all, the Bible discusses bestiality. If the man’s job is to discuss the Bible, then his job is to discuss illicit relations between man and animal. And as for the implication that he had participated in it, well, can you really trust the boy’s memory or even his interpretation of what words might have implied bestiality?

The third story concerns an Australian schoolteacher who lost his job after being caught with child pornography. Amongst the porn were some bestiality images: “Police from the state’s child protection squad Taskforce Argos said today they were sickened by the images — some which involved a six-month-old baby in acts of bestiality — describing them as ‘disgusting.’” God, that is disgusting. It’s one thing to enjoy the company of animals and to coax them into licking your privates, it’s another thing entirely to stage pictures of a baby and an unspecified animal engaged in sexual conduct.

PervScan thinks a lot about the larger issue of morality and perversion, about what codes of conduct might be proper for a sort of “ethical perversity,” and certainly it is possible to be both a pervert and a relatively good guy. But putting together a baby and an animal definitely crosses the line. You could make the argument that neither creature is a fully rational being capable of making conscious decisions. A baby doesn’t have much more lucidity than an animal, and so is it really so awful to involve him in something that he probably won’t even remember? It’s hard to deny a certain logic to that argument, and yet all the same, it’s wrong, wrong, wrong. Babies need love, not sex. Besides which, if somebody is already choreographing acts of bestiality with their six-month-old, it does not bode well for their future parenting skills. That baby is going to have a fucked-up future, and by any calculus of perversion that’s just plain wrong.

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