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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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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You raise some interesting questions which I am totally unqualified to answer. Perhaps regyt could her apply her JD to your concerns?

I do note that the story in question comes from fairly liberal Washington. If they have Georgia like statutes on "deviant" sex then lemur_catta and I are in deep shit. As it was, the worst we got busted for in Seattle was the evil crime of drinking beer with a picnic dinner at a fireworks exhibition. Perhaps, though, there was more to Mt. St. Helens than we realised.

OTOH, sxually tolerant Massachusetts is notorious for having had (may still have) exceptionally stringent bestiality laws and there is at least one recorded case of the public execution of both man and beast.

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Yes it appears that the reason that so many US states no longer have bestiality legislation is that they have repealed very short statutes about 'abominable crimes against nature' that covered a multitude of "sins".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