Until recently most states had very short, all embracing laws against sodomy that run something like "Any person who commits the unnatural act with a person or an animal shall be guilty of a felony".
This was used to prosecute homosexuals and, in some cases, certain kinds of heterosexual activity. As a result of changes in mores and because of certain Supreme Court decisions, most states have repealed their sodomy statutes leaving a, probably inadvertent, legal gap as far as bestiality is concerned.
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Until recently most states had very short, all embracing laws against sodomy that run something like "Any person who commits the unnatural act with a person or an animal shall be guilty of a felony".
This was used to prosecute homosexuals and, in some cases, certain kinds of heterosexual activity. As a result of changes in mores and because of certain Supreme Court decisions, most states have repealed their sodomy statutes leaving a, probably inadvertent, legal gap as far as bestiality is concerned.