## OhMyGod!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Added Saturday, September 26, 1998

[I received this e-mail on 9/25/98:]

Hi [snip],

    >This is quite possibly the most horrendous thing I have ever seen.

Well, you're young; I'm sure something will come along to top it. Compared to terrorist bombings, chemical warfare, and the lack of any decent new sitcoms this season, making love with a dog doesn't seem that bad.

    >I am so disgusted that I can barely type.

Well, I must nonetheless compliment you on your ability to write under duress. Your grammar and spelling were flawless, and aside from some spaces that should have been inserted around the parentheses in your signature, I can't fault the quality or technical merit of your writing skills.

    >This is ridiculous. Sex with animals is so incredibly bizarre and sick
    >that I cannot believe that anyone would ever want to do it, except for
    >the fact that for every ridiculous idea created, there are at least 2
    >who will attempt it.

Bizarre, perhaps, but again, it is only "bizarre" to you in comparison with what you encounter on a regular basis. To me, it is simply something that feels very natural and comfortable to me. As for "sick," zoophilia was once widely considered by the medical and psychological community to be a sign of mental illness, and could indicate that a person suffering from the "disease" posed a risk to himself or to society. In recent decades, however, researchers have gradually begun to agree that zoophilia is simply a sexual orientation, and is no more indicative of a deranged mind or a dangerous individual than is any other sexual "deviation" which does not involve inflicting unwanted pain (physical or otherwise) upon one's sexual partners. As long as neither partner is hurt by the encounter, and as long as it is consensual on both sides (yes, animals can consent), and as long as the human involved is not emotionally scarred by guilt over his or her behavior, most psychologists now feel that there is no problem. Oh, and as far as "ridiculous ideas" go, bear in mind that, were there not two individuals who would attempt every ridiculous idea, Jerry Springer would be out of a job. Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

    >I pray that your horribly disgusting sexual perversion will end soon.

Sorry to disappoint you and the god(s) to whom you pray, but I neither anticipate nor desire an end to my "horribly disgusting sexual perversion." I cannot exist other than God made me, and if He made me as I am, He must have had a good reason. I fully expect to be sexually attracted to, and physically intimate with, animals for the rest of my life. I also expect them to enjoy the heck out of it. So where's the harm in that?

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