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[chickenfeet]

Thanks to samanthalake for this story about a man dying after having sex with a horse.

Apparently bestiality is legal in 17 US states.

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[oursin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm: in C19th UK sodomy and bestiality used to be more or less conflated as 'abominable crimes against nature' and I suspect that would apply to a lot of the US states where these are still penalised.

But when did MA have v stringent bestiality laws and public executions? wouldn't this have been at the period when adulterers got an attractive scarlet A accessory?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes it appears that the reason that so many US states no longer have bestiality legislation is that they have repealed very short statutes about 'abominable crimes against nature' that covered a multitude of "sins".

I'm not aware of any executions for bestiality in MA after the 17th century.