What you are asking is a question psychology is still working find out.

But I don't know if what you are asking is quite so important as the big debate of "is it okay?" Homosexuality for example has been observed to seemingly "manifest" in several ways. But how it got there isn't very important, is it?

There are several reasons why people have sex with animals. Some do it solely for the "pervertedness" of the act. Some do it as a substitute for the lack of human relationships. Some do it because the porn they watch got them to a point where watching alone will no longer suffice. Some do gay stuff with animals because "with an animal, it´s not gay" (Original quote, heard several times). Some will do it simply because it´s possible. And there are some who actually love the animal they sleep with, beyond the sexual aspect. They are in love with the animal´s personality and character. You see, there´s not one reason explaining why some people are doing this, but a whole multitude. For some people, there might have been some sort of "click" moment you´re talking about, but for me there never was such a moment. I always felt that sleeping with a mare was the appropriate thing for me to do, never had to "learn" it through porn consumption or other means, it was there since I can remember. The act itself feels natural to me, I´ve never had to experience guilt or disgust from doing it.

I´m glad that you´re interested in this. Feel free to ask whatever you want.

I find dogs more sexually attractive thin people, I only have sex with dogs I have loving relationships with. People are just a waste of time for me, no sex appeal, don't care anuff to be more thin friends.

Horses just look way more attractive to me. I look at a human and think to myself gross. There isn't anything more sexier then a nice strong muscled horse.

i'm confused what is the appeal of wanting to fuck a human?

Try answering that question yourself first.

I don't think we have much data, but I think most people discover their sexual attractions around puberty and so do zoophiles.

If you find out why, publish a paper and get famous, because as it has been said, psychology is trying to find out how sexual attraction comes to be.

I think publications like

http://www.lopdf.net/preview/TsQjLKHcW5vPCrq33KvS2MtJgj-4tzilZmL6yVKuvxA,/Understanding-Bestiality-and-Zoophila-By-Hani-Miletski-Ph.html

and

http://www.scribd.com/doc/177288801/A-clinical-psychology-online-study-into-zoophilia-Marion-Nasswetter

contain a few statistics and opinions about what you're asking.

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i think my final question is and this is for everyone do you think that zoophilia is something other people should experience at least one in there life?

I'm a girl and I had zoosexual relationships of sorts when I was younger. I still feel attraction of sorts to some special looking animals but I'm not looking to "fuck animals." The intimacy I shared with my first partner was something sexual and it was also emotional and it was something safe, trusting and very private and I was secure in my partner's feelings.

I gather there are loads of guys out there who just want to stick their penis in an animal for curiosity or degradation or whatever reasons, but most of the zoophiles I met here feel the way I do, which is something you touched on already:

beautiful majestic things

Yes, they can be. So why are some beautiful and majestic things okay to want to feel physical pleasure from and others are not? Assuming your partner is willing and you're both receiving pleasure, what makes sex something so reverent and bound by rules that you can't share those nice feelings with something else that you find beautiful? It's just body parts. We drink milk that comes from animal bodes, we put their flesh in our mouths and eat them... so why is more gross to want to connect our mutually pleasurable parts together and feel love together?

That might be what "clicked" in my head. A realization that it can't hurt anyone, it feels good to be loved and give love, it feels exciting to be intimate with something so different from us, almost alien in the way it thinks and views the universe... and yet behind his eyes is something aware and dangerous and beautiful. A living being with all the same urges, instincts and feelings that we have. This dichotomy between the familiar and the exotic made it pleasurable and amazing to me. His physical stature was that of a predator and he was amazingly powerful, power and danger held under check until the heights of his own desire got the best of him, then I could feel it, I could feel that other world that his kind live in, of raw life and uncompromising need and to be the object of that need made my knees weak. I was turned on the first time I felt his strength when he forcibly pushed his face into the crook of my neck and nipped my skin gently, and I wanted to feel it over and over as we grew together.

He passed away, I grew older and moved on and now I'm married to a wonderful man and have no desire to go back to any kind of intimacy with animals of any kind. It was just a thing, but it was a special thing to me, any maybe it's just the way I'm wired, but I honestly cannot understand how people can't look at a beautiful animal the same way we look at beautiful people. I don't get how people think animal sexuality is any more gross than human sexuality, or why we can things like "that's a handsome creature" in regards to both men and animals and can only imagine wanting to touch and be loved by one and not the other.

I was involved in a reddit debate a while back and someone said "Rainbows are beautiful but would you want to fuck one?" And someone else said "Actually, if it were capable of sex, and we were physically compatible in some way, I sure would. That sounds amazing." Or something to that effect.

Humans have way too many hang-ups about sex. That's what else I loved about my partner. He didn't care, he didn't worry about it or stress or have any special rituals or rules. He just did it because it felt good. Have you ever had a partner that just wanted to have you desperately because you make them feel good? Just taking their pleasure from you, making you the source of what they need and tasting you and trying to be as close as possible in every way? I guess I should also say that I learned a lot about sex from him and my adult sex life has not suffered from it at all ;)

i don't have much to add, since, as usual, /u/ThrowwwayGurl put it so eloquently, but i always feel compelled to respond to questions like this, so here i am.

as others have said .. it's just how we're wired (weird?). what i haven't heard others say yet, however (maybe i missed it) is THANK YOU for coming here with an open mind. it is very much appreciated when outsiders visit us with the intent of trying to understand rather than ridicule or chastise or even threaten.

to elaborate .. we find certain non-human animals to be very beautiful. for some, more beautiful than humans, for some, equally, for some, less so, but still beautiful enough to want to be intimate with. why do we want to "fuck that"? well, that's just sexuality, it seems - wanting to be physically intimate with something we find beautiful and attractive. hopefully, a person begins to realize as they mature that the beauty their eyes see goes further than skin deep, and a desire to be more than simply physically intimate with an animal is nurtured - growing from a teenager who just needs sexual release to an adult who truly wants to love an animal in all ways.

For me personally I think it has to do with watching Disney movies as a kid, I loved the Lion King, Bambi, Fox and the Hound, or the anthropomorphic Robin Hood. I also liked Land Before Time, Balto and many other similar movies. It got me used to seeing animals with emotions and deeper feelings and relationships, though it isn't so in reality my imagination makes up the difference. How could anyone not be attracted to Nala or Rain from spirit? Give an animal a beautiful voice and I'm sold.

For me the goal is certainly not just to fuck an animal. I'm still virgin in that sense, but at some point it's probably going to happen. But that's not the reason why I consider myself a zoophile.

I care a lot about dogs. I get my daily dose of happiness by watching dogs being happy. Happy being alive, happy for getting attention, happy for being around people. And unlike other people I have not so much of a problem taking this a step further. If they get pleasure from being able to release their sexual urge once in a while I'm more than happy to provide that. But not because I have fantasies about it, but simply because I care more about the animal than I care about my own lusts.

If a dog doesn't like to be touched (and some rare ones do) than that does not change anything to how I see that animal.

Are you asking "what, exactly, turns you on about an animal?", or are you asking "how can one species' brain possibly think a different species is sexy?"? Because they are different questions.

Of the second, I have no idea. I don't know how it is that my brain is wired to be turned on exclusively by the wrong species, but if I look around me in a crowded pub and try to imagine everyone naked and me getting it on with them, with my own species... the answer is "meh, do I have to?". My own species just doesn't appeal to me. I manage to have sex with them anyway, because they're not a turn off, just un-inspiring, and the romantic connection is also nice.

But of my real desires... the directness of a dog, the powerful muscles of a horse, the playfulness and friendliness of a canine, the gentle peaceful curiosity of the equine, the long noses of each, the correctness of their ears, the tails, the fur, the way they investigate with a sniff and a lick. Humans don't do those things or have those characteristics. But even that isn't enough, because those things I've named are also present on animals I'm not aroused by. They have a certain je ne sais quoi, but I don't know what (😉).

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Others have mentioned this, but just to reinforce it, I think the attraction is the same as straight men have for human women, for example. You find yourself attracted to an individual, wanting to spend more time around them, wanting to snuggle, and at some point perhaps things go further, either due to your interest or theirs. Or maybe they don't, as there's lots of non-active zoophiles, too.

Something else to remember: as with a few select human-animal relationships, there are a few select human relationships built on fetishes, desperation, dysfunction, abuse, objectification, domination, or other "unhealthy" attributes. But people don't assume all or even most human-human heterosexual relationships are abusive or dysfunctional just because of reading a story about someone who gets raped or caught with a prostitute.

Case in point, I don't have any particular physical or mental problems, I have a couple of degrees, have a pretty successful career, have plenty of normal friends, had an average childhood, even a couple good few-year human relationships. So please don't assume that there is some deficiency or something involved. I'd compare it more to something like left-handedness or a sixth toe - or more to the point, whatever is linked to homosexuality - than to a brain deformity. It's different, but I fail to see how it's inherently negative.

so from what i can tell and this is just theory and hypotheses a few people here are actually not mature enough to i think preform zoophilia where others are. im not going to give out name but that's just what i feel. but now i have confession as well as another question about 3, 4 years ago i was suddenly finding myself fascinated with horses, at first is was the normal it would be cool to own a horse and ride said horse but that slowly changed when my feeling and thought of horses became more?; deep is a world ill use. but i have never acted upon these desires even tho i still attractions to both humans and horses i need to know if those of you that have had experience with this in the past if i should act upon my feelings for horses

Hello. I am a non-zoo and have struggled with many of the same questions you have I am sure, so feel free to ask me anything you still struggle with understanding. As for your current questions the way I see it is this: Why are people attracted to anything? You do not look at a person of the same gender and think they are sexually attractive (assuming you are not gay/bi) but yet others do. It is simply a matter of different features being appealing. Heck there is a women I saw in a documentary who was sexually attracted to a concrete wall and a friend of a friend is sexually attracted to automobiles, so really any feature can be something for somebody.

I have decided that I am going to explore these desires that i have tordes horses but I have to know how I should do it. If there is anyone willing to help in any way then please let me know.