bestiality
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- noun
- /ˌbɛs.tiˈæl.ɪ.ti/
- Offensive
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zoofilia
- Another incident occurred when a fifteen-year-old boy came across a bestiality site while researching for a school paper about wolves.
Are you more accepting of bestiality?
- Are you more accepting of bestiality?
- And yet the analogy he uses is bestiality, you know, the equation of sexual orientation with pathology that goes on here.
Examples
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The law strictly prohibits bestiality to protect animals from harm.
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It's in there right next to the rule against bestiality.
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Harm to animals, bestiality or inappropriate relationship with animals.
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In June, Walker and her husband pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bestiality.
Blog text (17) -
Of all the sexual sins, only homosexuality and bestiality are sins against nature.
Blog text (31) -
In matters of law in late eighteenth-century France, zoophilia and bestiality were subsumed into other forms of sexual crimes against nature.
Academic text (2015) -
Before formal sodomy laws in 1791 were established, bestiality was punishable by death (both person and animal).
Academic text (2015) -
Reports showed a rise in cases of bestiality that prompted public outrage.
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Educators often discuss bestiality in the context of animal rights and ethics.
Synonyms
Sex between a person and an animal
Sex between a person and an animal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bestiality comes from the Latin root bestia, which means 'beast' and is the same idea as the English word 'beast'. It originally named sexual acts with animals, so today bestiality means sexual activity between a human and an animal and is against the law in many places.