No one can charge you if you're not broadcasting it or doing it in public. Just be smart and stay private.

If you really want to go all zoo, the recent michigan bestiality laws seem unenforcable, but I can't recomend moving to a state based on legality, especially if you yourself find ethical issues with zoophilia itself.

I don't, but I don't judge those who do either. Religion is a powerful motivator and as legit a reason as any. May I recomend maybe seeing a psychologist about this? Emphasize that you don't want to act on this and want it to go away. Most won't see you as a bad person in this context and will try to help you with it.

I have decided to keep on voicing my opinions, mainly because our community is in desperate need of different perspectives in order to make change possible someday. My concept is about adaption, not the usual alienation strategy pursued by many "zoo activists". Plus, this place may be the most civil and moderate zoo chat/forum around; sometimes it even reminds me of the old IRC chats back in the nineties. Over the past 15 years, the level of permissiveness rose to an almost unbearable height within our scene, climaxing in the fact that "zoophile" has become a synonym for "fucks with animals". Our scene has turned into a self-obsessed, indifferent collection of individuals, alientated from the rest of the "normal" world to an extend where communication has become impossible. I was one of those who came up with the zeta rules and the symbol and it hurts me so much to see how our ideas and ideals were neglected, thrown aside and corrupted. I could sit in the corner of my living room and continue to bemourn my loss, I could be pissed off by some replies I have received, but I chose to stick around. It should be very obvious to all of us that our struggle for gaining tolerance is stuck in a dead end and somebody has to pull the cart out of the mud. Yes, it´s a dirty and unpleasant work, sometimes it reminds me of fighting windmills like Don Quichote, but nonetheless, it has to be done. We need to make a 180 degree turn if we want to get anywhere someday. Away from this permissiveness, towards a more moderate zoophilia society can possibly tolerate someday. Zoophilia is a topic dominated by emotions and thus, any logic and reason will fail to achieve progress. I made the experience that most "normal" folks don´t mind that you´re in a relationship with a quadruped partner as long as they can draw some similarities to THEIR idea of what love is. Turn it into a self centered "fuckfest with anything that walks" and you´ll have lost ´em quicker than you can say "reddit"...

I´m here so there´s at least one tiny voice not joining the choir of "anything goes". I consider it far more important than my own dismal mental state I´m in atm, having lost the love of my life only one month ago.

Regarding our "candidate" and his post from above: I wasn´t accusing him, I just wanted to give the full image to all the repliers. It surely isn´t a neglectable fact you just can leave unmentioned as the usual accusations from the antis include the "people who fuck animals also fuck little kids" mantra. I´m sure no one in here wants to prove ´em right, you agree? Just imagine our contributer is having a conversation about his sexual fantasies with a "norm"....the inevitable notion of somebody being stuck in the fetish and taboo breaker swamp will arise. Even I as a "non-norm" agree on that to a certain degree. And exactly that´s the moment when the perception of one "zoophile" gets transposed onto any zoophile...remember: due to our small numbers, each and everyone is the aequivalent of an ambassador for zoophilia. What you do and say counts...every single little word, every deed, even every single thought you express on a public forum like this. I just wish that our scene/community will finally manage to become aware of this instead of going full sexual berzerk. I don´t accuse the guy posting this...in fact, I rather feel sorry for him. I´ve been browsing through many of his posts and haven´t read the word "love" even once...I´m so sorry he´ll probably never experience true love, the cutting through the cellophane wrapped around the heart and soul of mankind.