Man Held for Sex with Goat
“A 63-year-old Free State man faces charges of bestiality after he was allegedly caught having sex with a goat near Harrismith, police said on Sunday. The man then allegedly assaulted the 14-year-old boy who saw him ‘without his pants behind the goat‘ in a field on Saturday afternoon, police spokesperson Christopher Mophiring said. ‘A community member from the village also noticed the incident and informed the boy to report the matter to the tribal leader. On their way… they were confronted and allegedly assaulted by the suspect and his son,’ Mophiring said.” —News24.com (US)
If you’re a regular reader of PervScan, it’s hard to ignore the relative plenitude of news stories about bestiality. A lay person might think that bestiality is rare, a freak occurrence committed by mental defects who live on remote farms, and yet really nothing could be further from the truth. Bestiality stories are shockingly easy to find in the news. Sometimes PervScan even passes on a story because, like this one about the man and a goat, there’s not really much you can say about it. A guy in Africa got caught with his pants down behind an animal — well, so what? Ho hum. Thanks to the internet, you can find a story like this on practically any day of the week.
At the same time, though, the very frequency of these stories has to give you pause. Bestiality is generally considered perverse, and yet the evidence implies that it’s much more common than you might imagine. And if it’s common, doesn’t that mean that it’s normal? Aren’t the common and the normal one and the same? Or to put it another way, does something have to be rare to be perverse? After all, if everybody is doing some “perverse” act or deed, what are the grounds for considering it perverse at all? Does there ever come a point at which perversity becomes a sort of weird institution, much the same as rebellion is institutionalized by rock and roll or by youth culture?
havent’ you posted essentially this post once? You are – or at least your site is – too young to be re-using material.
Biased reporting is never fun to read.
Is the bestiality department a little “dog”matic? :P
I don’t know where you see bias. The “reporter” is merely exploring the idea through questioning. That’s always a good way to approach a topic that is new, unusual, unexplored, and frequently shunned. Through questioning without jumping immediately to conclusions (which, of course, would be the equivalent of bias), a person can rationalize his or her beliefs and values. Otherwise, you end up just toting someone else’s line, becoming nothing but a follower, a non-thinker.
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