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The Supreme Court’s ruling did not create a new crime. The majority opinion argued, “This submission asks us, in effect, to create a new crime. In the dissent, Justice Rosalie Abella argued that the definition of bestiality should no longer require penetration and should encompass any sexual activity with an animal. The Supreme Court judges approved the decision by a vote of six to one. The ruling said, “Penetration has always been understood to be an essential element of bestiality.” The count of bestiality was overturned in a 2016 verdict by the Supreme Court of Canada because no penetration was involved. The man, a resident of Prince George, British Columbia, had used peanut butter to make his dog lick his stepdaughter’s genital areas. The case was the result of an appeal by a man who was found guilty in 2013 of 13 counts of sexual offences against his two stepdaughters, including one count of bestiality. The articles refer to a Supreme Court court case from 2016.

Bestiality, defined as interspecies sexual penetration, has been illegal since 1955.Īrticles in French and English both state in their headlines that Canada has legalized sex with animals. Sexual acts with animals excluding penetration are not considered bestiality under Canadian law. Two of these articles have recently been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. "Eighty-three percent of the men in her study were currently having sex with animals at a rate of about 3 times a week on average, but this varied from once annually to three times per day, so a wide range of activity," Holoyda said.Since a Supreme Court decision in 2016, online articles have claimed that Canada legalized sex with animals. Of the men in her study, Miletski found that their first sexual contact with animals tended to be with dogs - about 63% - and 17% with horses. "Perhaps most fascinating is that 26% of men and 9% of the women were married, living with spouses, and having sex with animals at the same time," said Holoyda.

One well-known researcher, psychotherapist Hani Miletski, PhD, of Bethesda, Maryland, studied 82 men and 11 women identifying online as zoophiles she found that about half were college graduates or had even more education and that one-fourth had no prior live-in relationships. In females, the numbers were much lower, with 1.5% of pre-adolescent girls and 3.6% of post-adolescent women reporting at least one sex act with an animal. Famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey published studies on the subject in 19 which found that about 8% of males reported at least one sex act with animals, although in farm-raised boys that number rose to 40%-50%. The exact prevalence of bestiality is unknown, he said. "In the DSM-5, there is a distinction between paraphilias and paraphilic disorders, so if you wanted to make a diagnosis related to zoophilia, the diagnosis would be zoophilic disorder, and one would diagnose it under the ' other specified paraphilic disorder' category." "Cave paintings from 15,000 to 20,000 years ago were demonstrating sex with animals," said Brian Holoyda, MD, a forensic psychiatrist in Sacramento, California, "and we hypothesize that certain forms of human/animal sexual contact were allowed in ancient Egypt as evidenced by depictions of human/animal sex on ancient Egyptian tombs." Bestiality also was present in Greek mythology, with the Greek god Zeus "coming down from Mount Olympus and presenting himself in animal form and coupling with humans." Pan, another mythological figure, was a satyr - half-goat, half-human - "who was thought to have arisen from bestial acts," Holoyda said.īestiality is defined as sex acts between human and non-human animals it is distinct from zoophilia, a form of paraphilia in which a human has atypical and intense sexual interest in animals, Holoyda explained. Humans have been having sex with animals since the earliest recorded history.