I almost laughed when it tried to insinuate that zoophilia and pedophilia are linked. It is just so obviously incorrect... People are strange... At the very least this article kind of covered the pro zoophilia side, but did not cover much.

If only they had that kind of fervor when it came to unemployment.

This is a political issue that means nothing. Yes, you will get a lot of votes. You'd get a lot of votes for "making stealing illegal". This is just a distraction from our real problems. War, corruption, unemployment, poverty.

• Make animal abuse involving factory farms illegal.

Try. Try to get that law passed. Okay, some person may have killed some dog and went to jail. Yes, it's animal abuse. Ramp that up 10,000 times. That's Factory Farm brand animal abuse. Where's that law?

So many lies and half-truths in that article.

Let´s face the facts, guys...it won´t be long until it´ll be banned worldwide and no one in sight to end this "trend". All educational tries have turned out to be worthless when it comes to having an effect on society as a whole. This fight is lost and it has been lost around fifteen years ago. What we experience now, with all of the european states banning it, is the price for the wrong decisions made in the past. With the uprise of easily accessible animal porn, it really was only a matter of time until the society would notice and act. Our community failed miserably in separating true zoophilia from all of the other causes to involve in interspecies sex and now, zoophilia has become a synonym for fucking animals, regardless if you´re in love with ONE animal, lust for any animal, are an addict of "perverted" porn etc.

As we have seen in another case, where a guy was arrested for paedophilia and, amongst other stuff, animal porn was found, there actually is some kind of link between bestiality and paedophilia. A significant percentage of animal porn users are plainly in it because of the taboo nature of the subject. For those, it is only a small step from animals to underage humans; it´s just another taboo they gladly break to derive pleasure from it. Linking these two is valid in sobunall (some, but not all) cases. Yes, I know it´s hard to swallow, but that´s the way it is.
Sex trafficking is existent, you just have to take a look into the most common fora; in almost every forum a section for "personal ads" exists and gives a realistic insight into what is commonly denied by pro-zoos. Animal brothels also exist; surely not in a way a legal, human on human brothel exists, but just look at the folks who "share" their animals to nearly anyone interested. All the claims the antis can bring up against "zoophilia" actually can be proven if you dare watching openmindedly (and with open eyes). Sure we can argue about definitions of trafficking and brothels, but we all know that the so called "zoo community" is far from being an "all saints" gathering. So I´d like to propose we all stop pointing fingers at the "intolerant and hostile" normals and turn towards our own scene. We really should start cleaning our own front porch before we try forcing others to clean theirs. Animal porn, sharing animals, "fuckparties", swapping animals, promiscuity...all of that formed our public image of deviant sexual predators ready to literally fuck anything incapable of running away far enough; the bans are nothing more than a REaction on this kind of conduct. Our scene serves as a gutter, where clean water and pure shit mix to a point nobody is capable of separating these two entities anymore. It has mutated into a "weirdo magnet", where "professional pervs" mix with fantasizing manchilds, sex addicts swap apologetic "explanations" with amateur animal porn producers and criticism of any kind is dismissed widely as "intolerance". What happens when a community forgets to pay attention to "scene hygiene" can be witnessed around the world today. We as a community failed to take care of the extremes, so the authorities gladly jumped in to do the job that was originally OUR duty. One final word: Yes, this article features the same, common lies and half-truths. But, as we all see, it works quite well this way. Politics work this way, human relationships work this way, almost anything works this way. "Never change a winning team", as you know. If we don´t manage to quit our arrogance and our self victimisation, we´ll keep slipping down the downward spiral faster and faster. I´ve never seen a group of people so stubborn and incapable of making compromises as the "zoo community". WE are the ones demanding something from society, not the other way around. Yet, no one wants to make sacrifices... Zoophilia is commonly misunderstood as a limitless field of sexual exploration, a cheap detour to avoid human morals and an easy possibility to get sex whenever the human wants it...as long as we don´t correct this misbelief in our "community", we´re doomed and all hope is lost.

I think it's safe to say that there are only places where bestiality is illegal and places where it's not illegal yet...

Hm. Reading that comments section, it's such a rabidly homophobic bunch it's fascinating in this context. I mean, seriously, read it. We're all worried about how the senator is comparing us with pedos, but they're all comparing us with gays (and pedos, and in at least one case, abortion). They could be just bashing us, and they're not — they hate sexual liberty in general.

My thanks to /user/virtua for linking to the sex survey; I was shocked by the results, but I would like to point out that 43.5% of respondents over all three groups were bisexual, which is interestingly unexpected in it's own right.