User:FT2/List of studies into zoosexuality
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This article provides a list of scientific and socialogical studies which have touched upon zoosexuality or zoophilia.
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[edit] Reviews of the literature
[edit] Miletski (1999)
Miletski cites[1] Davis & Whitten (1987) that research is "scarce and outdated", and that all but two studies in the Library of Congress database of dissertations deal with zoophilia in art, literature and history. The studies that do discuss bestiality, "most involve 'case studies', and are usually written in a pseudo-scientific manner":
- "There is a number of phony psychological studies, actually designed to sell erotic stories under the guise of case histories. They pretend to be authoritative, documented, and factual sex studies. The authors of these books discuss Kinsey’s findings, and mention other well known sexologists to make their works seem scientifically based. The reliability of these popular books on bestiality is open to question. These books tend to preach against bestiality, and to refer to bestialists as morally repulsive psychopaths. Four such pseudo-scientific studies are presented in this chapter (Dumont, 1970; Rosenfeld, 1967; Trimble, 1969; Waine, 1968)."
She states that "the five most relevant and important studies for comparison purposes" are: Kinsey et al (1948), Kinsey et al (1953), Hunt (1974), Peretti and Rowan (1983), and Donofrio (1996).
Beetz (2002) in her 2002 study of sex and violence with animals concurred, stating that:
- "Several articles exist, that mention bestiality or zoophilia in its relation to homosexuality, offenders, law, or pornography (Cameron et al., 1989; Morris, 1989; Nagaraja, 1983; Oaks, 1979; Plummer, 1984; Zillmann et al., 1981; Zillmann & Bryant, 1986); but scientific studies that focus exclusively on bestiality are hard to find. Some books dedicated exclusively to bestiality obviously took a so-called scientific background as a pretext to describe and sell the included quite pornographic case-'studies'."
Beetz added that new studies based on old ones merely repeat prior authors' assumptions, and named as important studies Kinsey et al. (1948, 1953), Gebhard et al. (1965), Hunt (1974), Peretti and Rowan (1982, 1983), Masters (1962, 1966) ("contributed some valuable thoughts"), Cerrone (1991), and Alvarez and Freinhar (1991) ("recent and informative"), as well as Donofrio (1996) and Miletski (1999). Other "important" sources were the 1990's works of Salisbury (1994) and Dekkers (1994).
[edit] Types of study
[edit] List of studies
[edit] Studies categorized by type and conclusion
| Offender or abuser populations |
Clinical and psychiatric populations |
Open and zoophile populations |
Other | |
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| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
