Bestiality Denigrates Human Exceptionalism

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Wesley J. Smith

A man has been given three years in jail for having sex with a horse. I feel somewhat sorry for the defendant in this case, who is clearly disturbed. But I do think it is a sufficiently important issue of human exceptionalism that sex with animals should be punished as a crime. First, it is abuse. But beyond that obvious point, by definition, bestiality denigrates human dignity

On this final note, Peter Singer and I disagree–as we do about nearly everything. In “Heavy Petting,” a review of a book promoting bestiality...the rest