Ew.

Originally Posted by Dubble

Sheeran said the purpose of the sodomy law is not to protect a specific victim, necessarily, but ''to prevent people from debasing and dehumanizing themselves.'' Such laws also protect society, Sheeran said, and ''prevents people from acting like animals themselves.''

Living animals don't have sex with dead animals. Necrophilia is a very human thing--we're the only species on this planet screwed up enough to participate in it. It's rather unfair to call such behavior animal-like since it's a product of our huge, highly-evolved brains.

Anyway, this guy needs help in one form or another. I'm not entirely sure that prison is the way to go for him, though. It seems clear to me that his brain is defective. He needs to either be medicated to compensate for whatever it is that is wrong with his brain or just locked away in a padded room forever. And I say forever there because there's no reason to believe that he won't move up from Fido to a cemetery. Fido could've been a test run, and that was bad enough.

On the legal side of things, I can't really say I feel bad for his attorney. She may not have had a choice in whether or not to take his case, but in that line of work, you don't always get to be pick and choose. She had to know that this sort of thing is going to crop up from time to time even before she got into law school. Now, if she had advised him to go ahead and plead insanity instead of quibbling over what constitutes sodomy, I might feel differently for her. But admitting that he did it and trying to have the case dismissed over a blurry definition of sodomy is a pretty screwed up position to take. It's funny that in a system that is supposed to be based on justice, there is an inverse relationship between success and morality.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Avalokiteshvara

What's your source for that? Because there's this thing here that says different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...ty#Necrophilia

Interesting. I'll admit I've never read about that before. Wikipedia's source links are broken, but I might look around and see if I can find something about it. The point I was attempting to make before is that most animals act purely on instinct. Those instincts tend to be beneficial to the preservation of the species, because if they didn't, they'd probably go extinct. Speaking from that perspective, there is no benefit in copulating with anything that is dead, since obviously a dead animal cannot become impregnated.

Humans, on the other hand, often act in direct opposition to their instincts. I think it's a pretty safe bet that those who do participate in this particular behavior are not doing so based on instinct. Thus my original point about our brains.

There's nowhere I can't reach.