As one by one sexual perversions become socially acceptable, here is the next ledge as our culture hurtles down the slippery slope: Bestiality. The Sundance Film Festival is screening a movie about people who have sex with animals, with those who claim this sexual identity calling themselves "zoos." Note the positive, tolerant tone of this media piece about the movie, the lack of repulsion:
"Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted."Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews (two of the three men involved did not want to appear on camera) with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
One movie might not signal a cultural trend, but the cutting-edge ethicist Peter Singer, defender of active euthanasia of the unfit and animal rights, has come out with a defense of inter-species sex.
Well, if we disassociate sex from procreation, the distinction between "natural" and "unnatural" disappears? If sex is only a physical pleasure, what difference does it make how a person attains that release? If love sanctions every sex act, people certainly love animals. If human beings are nothing more than animals, what is so wrong with bestiality? I don't think secularists have a basis for disapproving of this! So watch for more "zoos" to come out of the closet.
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