Bestiality has been around for many years, dating back to some of mankind’s earliest historical texts including cave drawings demonstrating sexual acts towards animals. Bestiality, the performance of sexual acts (penetrative or external) with animals, is still very much practiced today. In my own life, I have found that bestiality is joked about. It does not seem to be taken as a serious problem. When I was in middle school, I remember hearing about some of my male and even some female acquaintances who had sexual relations with animals by putting peanut butter on their genitals to get their pet dog to engage in the despicable act. Other than that, you do not really hear about it in normal society, but just because you do not hear about it,…show more content… Ancient Egyptians portrayed bestiality on their tombs and in their hieroglyphs. They even used bestiality in their religious practices that were described as worshipful bestiality including sexual acts with bulls and goats. Even Egyptian kings and queens were known to be involved in bestiality. Men were the main culprits of bestiality in Egypt; they were known to have sexual relations with cattle and other large domesticated animals, crocodiles, and goats. Bestiality was punishable in Ancient Egypt by torture, which eventually led to death. Ancient Greeks also practiced bestiality and they both believed that it cured nymphomaniacs, but they had differing laws dealing with bestiality or any kind of human-animal contact. Whereas death was the punishment for bestiality in Ancient Egypt, there were no laws in Ancient Greece regarding bestiality. The Greeks even practiced bestiality in their religious festivals and celebrations. Ancient Greece also infused into their mythology that included Zeus in the form of various animals having sexual relations with humans. The Ancient Romans were very similar to the Ancient Greeks because they incorporated bestiality into their…show more content… These “zoos”, as they call themselves, believe they are “like the gays in the 1950s” meaning they are seen as freaks and outcasts, and they hope for acceptance from the rest of society. The Internet has given zoos a way of communicating with other zoos that has built up a larger and more interconnected community of people. Through this community, they are becoming more outspoken about their personal liberty and against discrimination. They are now pushing for their freedom to fulfill their sexual desire and they may even be the new sexual civil rights movement. A recent interview with an anonymous zoophile revealed the personal insight to this community’s culture. The man revealed that he first found an attraction to dogs, especially the Siberian Husky, when he was just ten years old, and his attraction grew as he got older. He thought he was alone until he discovered bestiality pornography from Denmark (a country where it is legal). He declared that the culture of zoophilia is “not a fetish”, but “its’ an orientation, a lifestyle”. Just because it is their “lifestyle”, though, does not mean it is not immoral, and just because it is your “lifestyle” does not mean we should preserve it and that it does not affect anyone or anything. Many cultures throughout history and most today have prohibited