Has bestiality always been historically so taboo? Why? It doesn't result in pregnancy; did it result in diseases? Why did humans evolve to get so repulsed from touching genitals with other species?
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
Hypothesis: many of the sexual prohibitions in the Torah make sense if you view the purpose as increasing fertility, in a time when more children = more labor and larger fighting force.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
1. The story of Onan, punished for masturbation, is about a man required by law to marry her brother’s widow (so she can still have children & financial support) who spitefully refuses to have babies with her & masturbates instead.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
2. Many prohibited sexual acts (male homosexuality, bestiality, masturbation) do not produce offspring.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
3. There are of course lots of reasons that people might make rules against sexual promiscuity but one that we easily forget is that, before antibiotics, STDs routinely made women sterile.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
4. Forbidding having sex around a woman’s menstrual period has the effect of increasing fertility.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
These are all consistent with the Catholic position that sexual pleasure is immoral unless used for procreation, and that *ideally* nobody would have sex at all but unfortunately we need reproduction. But this might be a later rationalization.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
To me, this all seems more like “we desperately need babies! Don’t waste your precious libido points on things that don’t make babies!
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Aella_Girl
There *are* some prohibitions against cruelty to animals in the Torah, it’s not like they didn’t care at all about that in those days, but the prohibition on bestiality is lumped with *sexual* prohibitions not animal-related ones. Also, you’re supposed to kill the animal.
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If the problem with bestiality was that it harmed the animal, you wouldn’t kill the animal after discovering bestiality. The Bible doesn’t say to kill rape victims.
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