“A Shreveport man faces a charge of animal cruelty, accused of performing a sex act with a neighbor’s dog. David Bruce Powell, 57, was booked into the Caddo Correctional Center on Friday afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of simple animal cruelty. He was released Saturday night on a $5,140 bond. Witnesses told police they saw Powell being ‘unusually affectionate’ with the dog and saw pictures on Powell’s computer of him having sex with the animal. Powell was arrested Friday at his apartment on the 900 block of Louisiana Avenue in downtown Shreveport. Officers also seized Powell’s computer for examination at the Caddo Parish district attorney’s office. ‘We just assisted in the case because he had a warrant for animal cruelty,’ Shreveport police spokesman Jim Taliaferro said. ‘The computer may have possessed some pornography. We turned it all over to Caddo Parish.’ The charge of animal cruelty carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.” — Shreveport Times (US)

In the comments to the first story to follow Bestiality Week, reader Sven noted that he was “bored of all the ‘So, bestiality is pretty common.’ updates” here on PervScan. It was a more interesting comment than it might even seem on the surface, since it connects precisely to the cycle of boredom and novelty that underlies perversion itself. In its books Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish and Necrophilia Variations, Supervert has referred to this as the Law of Diminishing Kicks. Simply put, it means that once you get used to a certain perversity — bestiality, say — it provides diminishing returns, lesser kicks, and therefore it pushes you to explore weirder and weirder kinks in an effort to maintain the intensity of your pleasures.

Plainly the Law of Diminishing Kicks is at work not only in perversity but in the accounts of it here on PervScan. Let’s call a spade a spade. How many dog fuckers can you tolerate before it becomes a bore like anything else? And once it becomes a bore, how do you up the ante again? In reality itself, how do you take bestiality to the next level? In the reportage of it, how does PervScan make these samey-same stories interesting again?

It’s a challenge, both in art and reality. Mr. Powell’s story, however upsetting it may be for him, his family, or his friends, remains humdrum for devotees of the perverse mindset. Witnesses called him “unusually affectionate,” but you know that his affection is not unusual at all. In fact, however repellent it may be to those witnesses, it has even become a bit too usual for you, or at least to you as a reader. Perhaps another new bestiality story, that of a young California man arraigned for fucking a dog, suggests a novel possibility. A witness reported finding this man “bare-bottomed on top of the bullmastiff…” It’s hard not to notice the alliteration in that testimony. It almost suggests the chorus of a song, you can hear it in your head, sort of an old-time beer hall song, “Bare-Bottomed on the Bullmastiff.” Too bad nothing much rhymes with “mastiff.”

But is that what it’s going to take to reinvigorate bestiality? Do we need to break out in song?

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