...Bestiality The arrest of an Ohio man for bestiality is making headlines across the state. The alleged sex acts Peter Bower committed with his dogs and horse may be startling, but are far from the only bestiality crimes occurring across the nation. According to Examiner reports , multiple bestiality and zoophilia cases have occurred this year in America. Ohio Mansfield area man Peter Bower was found guilty of having sex with his dogs and a horse. According to 10TV police investigators found love letters to his dog, bestiality books and a blow-up sheep in the home while executing a search warrant. Bestiality is not a crime in Ohio, so Bower could only be charged with animal cruelty. Both of the dogs were euthanized. Before his arrest on a tip from neighbors, Bower blogged about his sexual exploits with animals online and shared photos, according to ABC KAIT8. Examiner notes that Bower was a frequent volunteer at the local dog shelter and worked as a dog walker. Terms of Bower's plea bargain include community service, counseling and prohibition of ever owning another pet while residing in Ohio. State Representative Jay Goyal and State Senator Kris Jordan are currently drafting legislation to make bestiality a crime in the state. Before his arrest a neighbor spotted Bower walking his dog while wearing a sign which read, just married. Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County arrested two men for attempting to secure dogs for sex. The sting caught Keith Kiefer and...
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...“The Virginians of 1619 were desperate for labor, to grow enough food to stay alive” During the 1609-1610 winters, settlers went mad for food that they began to dig up corpses as a food source. Men from the colonial life also faced alienation by the fact that “in Virginia and Maryland, men outnumbered women by five or six to one.” Sodomy and bestiality were factors endured by men during this period. This affected men from lower status to high ranks. For example, an incident involving Robert Cornish, a ship captain and ship boy named William Couse brought the execution of the ship captain for forcible...
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...BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY There are many different reasons why individuals abuse animals. Animal cruelty covers a wide range of actions (or lack of action), so one blanket answer simply isn't possible. Each type of abuse has displayed certain patterns of behavior that we can use to help understand more about why people commit the crimes we encounter today. Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories: active and passive, also referred to as commission and omission, respectively. Passive Cruelty (Acts of Omission) Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect, where the crime is a lack of action rather than the action itself - however do not let the terminology fool you. Severe animal neglect can cause incredible pain and suffering to an animal. Examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations, allowing a collar to grow into an animal's skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when an animal needs medical attention. In many cases of neglect where an investigator feels that the cruelty occurred as a result of ignorance, they may attempt to educate the pet owner and then revisit the situation to check for improvements. In more severe cases however, exigent circumstances may require that the animal is removed from the site immediately and taken in for urgent medical care. Active Cruelty (Acts of Commission) Active cruelty implies malicious intent, where a person has deliberately...
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...restrain from creating new law in the course of his or her judgment. Additionally, it allows for the separation of powers between the judiciary arm of government and other two remaining arms (Schmidhauser, 2013). The Canadian judges observe restraints to the law regarding instances of individual rights. The Constitution is anchored on the basic understanding of fundamental human rights. Individual human rights refer to those that are inherently attributed to people by virtue of being human. An example of judicial restraint by Canadian judges relates to the Supreme Court ruling on the bestiality case. The judges used the available law, which was constitutional despite its failure to realize justice to the victim. However, in restraining the judges observed that the meaning of the bestiality law favored the animal more than man and as such, they could not twist the wording to alter the meaning of bestiality law to secure a conviction of the man. It should be of paramount that the existence of lacunas do not render a law illegal but only provide a mechanism for future amendments (King et al.,...
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...of omission, is animal neglect. Examples are starvation, parasite infestations, dehydration, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when medical attention is needed. Active cruelty, or acts of commission, implies malicious intent in which a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal. This behavior is often associated with sociopathic behavior and tendencies. Another disturbing behavior is a paraphilia called bestiality, also known as zoophilia. In a simple sense, bestiality involves intercourse with an animal and includes oral genital contact of any kind between humans and animals. Shockingly, this act is legal in several states. The common sexually abused animals are: cats, dogs, sheep, cows, hens, rabbits, goats, ducks, horses, bulls, and fish. All these animals are accessible, which is why they are commonly abused. Bestiality is considered abuse because it is forced sex. Some animals are owned for only one purpose – to fight. Animal fighting is a blood-sport in which animals are specifically bred and trained to fight each other within an enclosed pit or ring; these animals often fight to the death. Thankfully, dog fighting and cock-fighting is illegal nationwide....
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...Frankenstein is raised to be socialized, cultivated as well as polite and loving. It is expected that he marries his adoptive sister Elizabeth and he is willing to do as thought of him. Victor is expected to act in a certain way, thus he needs to repress his emotions to act as a cultivated, well-mannered man. He deprives himself of any passionate feelings (except the process of creating life) and transforms himself into an empty person only acting upon social rules. The creature, in contrast, does not show his thoughtful and delicate nature. Often, he appears to be quite cruel in his approach, though this can be regarded as an effect of the abandonment of Victor. His reactions are underlined by his outside appearance of a ‘monster’ and his bestiality is conceived as immoral. Thus, he represents society’s fear of an outsider and the effect of rejection due to his deformity. The creature is quite passive about his aims, showing that he is influenced by his natural instincts, more than Victor does. This is represented in his actions as these are only reactions, answers to his maltreating...
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...Homosexuality - Theological Intro By Thomas Coy September 2008 Introduction to the theological aspects of homosexuality and the gay rights movement As a student of the medical debate over homosexuality, the gay rights movement, and the Bible, I believe I have an insightful perspective on the debates over homosexuality. In the last half of the twentieth century a divisive theological debate over homosexual behavior developed when gay activists created their own revisionist interpretation of the Bible to support their claim that homosexual behavior is neither immoral nor sinful. This revisionist theology has been labeled “gay theology.” Many Christians are not aware that in 1968 a gay activist started a Christian denomination called the Metropolitan Community Church based on gay theology. In this introduction I will point out some obvious errors in gay revisionist arguments and outline a much wider scope of biblical principles that are related to how the church deals with homosexuals and the gay political movement. Scripture and gay revisionism Gay activists contend there are only seven scriptures that address homosexuality in the Bible and therefore homosexual behavior is insignificant in scripture. Gay activists also contend that theologians have misinterpreted the seven scriptures. The seven main scriptures are the Genesis account of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19), the Mosaic Law in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, the letter by Jude verse 7, and the Apostle Paul’s letters...
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...Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American 20th century philosopher who has a particular interest in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, political philosophy, feminisms and ethics. She studied theatre and classics at the New York University, where she received a BA in 1969, and eased her way into philosophy while attending Harvard, where she received an MA in 1972 and PhD is 1975. In 1972 she became the first female to hold the Junior Fellowship. This allowed certain graduate students to be relieved from teaching and get on with their research. She focuses a lot of her work on the freedoms and opportunities of women and emotions. Nussbaum draws a lot of inspiration from the liberal tradition, and sides a lot with philosophers who want to extend philosophy’s reach. She holds associate appointments in classics, divinity and political science, and is also a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program. Nussbaum taught philosophy and classics at Harvard in the 1970s and early 1980s, where she was denied tenure by the Classics Department in 1982. Nussbaum then moved to Brown University, where she taught until the mid-1990. She is currently at the University of Chicago where she is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics Nussbaum has made herself a very well-known figure with her many well written books and articles. Some of her publications include The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy...
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...I am in favor of gay marriage due to multiple reasons. For better understanding one must understand the meanings of marriage and civil union first. The Merriam-Webster definition of marriage is: the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. The gay marriage definition is: the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage. A civil union is a legal recognized contract between partners (not necessarily same sex only), with rights that are similar to marriage rights. The main difference between marriage and civil union is that power they hold. Marriage is a legal status that is recognized by all governments. It has obligations, rights, and protections up to a federal level. A civil union is a legal status that is granted by the state that also provide legal protection but only at a state level. For example a civil union will be recognized in the state the union was made but not necessarily in other states. Civil unions do not have equal rights as compared to marriage. “Married couples have 1,138 federal rights, protections and responsibilities.”(NOW: Civil Marriage v. Civil Unions) Some of the rights included are: “Social Security benefits upon death, disability or retirement of spouse. Exemptions from penalties on IRA and pension rollovers. The right to visit a sick or injured loved one, and have a say in life and death matters...
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...Fourteenth Amendment in where the right to privacy between to consenting adults cannot be interrupted. For Justice Scalia, he gave the dissenting opinion in this court case, to him, was more about morals and where this case to lead to. “State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity… every single one of these laws is called into question by today's decision.” He further argued, “If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is 'no legitimate state interest' for purposes of proscribing that conduct, what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising '[t]he liberty protected by the Constitution?” In this statement, Scalia considers this issue as abominable, because his holds to the religious outweighs his job as a decision maker i.e. Supreme Court Justice. If this is the case now, then what is next… gay marriage? Scalia is saying without out right actually saying that homosexuals should not have the rights as heterosexuals because it is immoral, about as bad as prostitution, bestiality, and adultery. Scalia also agreed with the Supreme Court Case Bowers in that it should be the States that make the decisions based on their own laws to deal with such issues. Scalia tried to explain that the Fourteenth amendment should not apply here because the current laws in place about sodomy were correct in that it upholds moral decency. Scalia’s...
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...Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of sexuality are procreation, contraception, celibacy, marriage, adultery, casual sex, flirting, prostitution, homosexuality, masturbation, seduction, rape, sexual harassment, sadomasochism, pornography, bestiality, and pedophilia. What do all these things have in common? All are related in various ways to the vast domain of human sexuality. That is, they are related, on the one hand, to the human desires and activities that involve the search for and attainment of sexual pleasure or satisfaction and, on the other hand, to the human desires and activities that involve the creation of new human beings. For it is a natural feature of human beings that certain sorts of behaviors and certain bodily organs are and can be employed either for pleasure or for reproduction, or for both. The philosophy of sexuality explores these topics both conceptually and normatively. Conceptual analysis is carried out in the philosophy of sexuality in order to clarify the fundamental notions of sexual desire and sexual activity. Conceptual analysis is also carried out in attempting to arrive at satisfactory definitions of adultery, prostitution, rape, pornography, and so forth. Conceptual analysis (for example: what are the distinctive features of a desire that make it sexual desire instead of something else? In what ways does seduction differ from nonviolent rape?) is often difficult and seemingly picky, but proves rewarding in unanticipated and surprising...
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...Philosophy of Sexuality The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - http://www.iep.utm.edu Philosophy of Sexuality Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of sexuality are procreation, contraception, celibacy, marriage, adultery, casual sex, flirting, prostitution, homosexuality, masturbation, seduction, rape, sexual harassment, sadomasochism, pornography, bestiality, and pedophilia. What do all these things have in common? All are related in various ways to the vast domain of human sexuality. That is, they are related, on the one hand, to the human desires and activities that involve the search for and attainment of sexual pleasure or satisfaction and, on the other hand, to the human desires and activities that involve the creation of new human beings. For it is a natural feature of human beings that certain sorts of behaviors and certain bodily organs are and can be employed either for pleasure or for reproduction, or for both. The philosophy of sexuality explores these topics both conceptually and normatively. Conceptual analysis is carried out in the philosophy of sexuality in order to clarify the fundamental notions of sexual desire and sexual activity. Conceptual analysis is also carried out in attempting to arrive at satisfactory definitions of adultery, prostitution, rape, pornography, and so forth. Conceptual analysis (for example: what are the distinctive features of a desire that make it sexual desire instead of something else? In what ways does seduction...
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...life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the ideas of worthless human lives.”(Love, 2005) What is cruelty? Cruelty is defined as a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering ("Cruelty", n.d.). Many times these acts of cruelty are due to ignorance or the fact that the owners simply do not care. The most common type of animal cruelty is neglect or abandonment. This occurs when the owner does not provide their pets with food, water, shelter or proper veterinary care. These animals who suffer this type of cruelty often die a slow agonizing death because they are malnourished, dehydrated, or have diseases that go untreated. Other types of cruelty are animal fighting, hoarding, poisoning, shooting, and bestiality (Gianotto, 2001-2008). Time and time again these acts of cruelty go unpunished because the authorities have more important crimes against people to worry about. With so many studies linking animal abuse to future violent crimes these acts of torture to animals should be taken more seriously. In 1994 a report released by the National Research Council states that “early intervention is more likely to reduce adult crime than criminal sanctions applied later in...
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...The limits of our tolerance portrayed in The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Edward Albee, born on March 12, 1928, is an American playwright who is well known for his controversial works. One controversial piece of work in particular was a play written in 2002 titled The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. The Goat or Who is Sylvia? has received mixed reviews. Some people believe that the sole meaning behind the play is bestiality and find the subject matter to be disturbing; others believe that the play has much more meaning to it besides bestiality. Edward Albee has said that The Goat or Who is Sylvia? is about “the limits of our tolerance of the behavior of others than ourselves, especially when such behavior ran counter to what we believe to be acceptable social moral boundaries, and our unwillingness to imagine ourselves behaving in such an unacceptable fashion.” In The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, writer Edward Albee uses dialogue between the characters Ross, Billy, and Martin to portray and criticized the limits of our tolerance as a society. In the opening scene of The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Martin is interviewed by his best friend, Ross Tuttle, on his fiftieth birthday. Martin is being interviewed for a television segment titled “People Who Matter” because of his recent accomplishments; he became the youngest person ever to win the Pritzker Price and was chosen to design a new two hundred billion dollar dream city of the future name “World City”. This is the happiest moment in Martin’s...
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...Ethical Pornography SOC 120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Professor May 2, 2015 As a child you are told at a very young age that you can be anything and do anything that you want to do. Normal answers we would expect to hear from our children are I want to become a doctor, lawyer, veterinarian, football star, or maybe even a soldier. What we do not expect to come out any child’s mouth is that I want to be in the pornography business. It is not the norm of what a child wants to be when they grow up, nor is it something you dream about becoming as a child. Some people are forced into this business and yes while some choose to be in this business, you might want to question what made this your only choice? There are so many opinions on what pornography actually is and what it has become. Some people look at it as the most repulsive thing on the face of this earth while others view it as an art form, a simply way to express oneself. The question I pose is taking away legalities, religious points of views, and perceptions what do we have, I ask what moral issues does this cause? Many ethical arguments have been conducted over the years as to whether or not pornography in anyway is a moral boundary that has been crossed. Going into the different views of pornography poses both a debate within the communities dealing with Ethical relativism as well as Deontological Ethics. In regards to ethical relativism the simple definition of the term is that there are...
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