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zo·o·phil·i·a

(zō′ə-fĭl′ē-ə)

The deriving of sexual gratification from fantasies or acts involving animals.

zo′o·phile′ (-fīl′) n.

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zoophilia

(ˌzəʊəˈfɪlɪə)

(Psychology) a morbid condition in which a person has a sexual attraction to animals; bestiality

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zoophilia

a desire for sexual activity with animals. — zoophilist, n. — zoophilic, zoophilous, adj.

zoophilia

n zoofilia

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Possible zoophilia associated with dopaminergic therapy in Parkinson disease.

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Zoophilia would fall into this category, as would other potentially criminal acts.

Revisions proposed for sexual behaviors in ICD-11

Sex differences in biastophilia, exhibitionism, masochism, sadism, scatophilia, voyeurism, and zoophilia persisted at high frequencies (i.e., once a week or more).

The effects of sex drive and paraphilic interests on paraphilic behaviours in a nonclinical sample of men and women

Its [sic] great to have somewhere to go where you don't have to hide anything"); see also Maratea & Kavanaugh, supra note 292, at 104 (describing the "emergence of collegial online communities" akin to "deviant subcultures" through which participants can "dispense advice, provide empathy, and network" regarding similar taboo sexual interests, such as zoophilia).

Punishing sexual fantasy

"Although Mengele's subjects," Diane Ackerman writes in The Zookeeper's Wife, "could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for neglecting to give worms enough anesthesia during an experiment."

War Chatter: --from Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir

Like other critics, I link the reticence and indirect language of "A Passion in the Desert" to beliefs, ideas and motives that extend beyond Balzac's supposed goal of keeping a story about zoophilia within acceptable limits.

Strangers to ourselves: animality and Theory of Mind in Honore de Balzac's "A Passion in the Desert"

As he ranges across impressively diverse terrain--including amongst others the band Aerogramme, answering machines, and humans sounding like animals in distress; Agamben's theory of the anthro-machine; Werner Herzog on Timothy Treadwell and grizzly bears on video; Haraway and her dog; Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and Stiegler on re-focusing the libido; Marcuse on the problem of 'shrink-wrapped genitals' and the possibilities of a libidinal ecology; Ikkwan al-Safa and the case of animals versus Adamites; Nine Inch Nails and zoophilia; Derrida and his cat; Marx and species-being; Arendt and art; Bloom on Shakespeare; J.A.

Human thing

Almost pissed myself when I saw our Valentine's Day, "Zoophilia: More than Just Friends?" up for Best Nature Documentary.

The Loneliness from Which Love Springs