LEWDLAB – DREAMS OF DESIRE MANUAL
While a specious reading of the “health care” exemption might be stretched to encompass artificial insemination by veterinarians, most artificial insemination is done by low-wage manual laborers. But the letter of Kansas’s law-which would weigh heavily in an actual court case, particularly with a textualist court-is unambiguous. Surely when the Kansas legislature voted to prohibit criminal sodomy in 2010, it did not intend to ban artificial insemination. Bestiality, a highly stigmatized act, lends itself well to loud denunciations but not so much to moral consistency. How Americans claim they want to treat animals and how American animals are actually treated are two very different things, and in bestiality laws, these contradictions are laid bare. Farmed animals have few meaningful legal protections and are routinely subject to forced confinement, painful practices like castration and tail-docking, and sexually invasive interventions such as artificial insemination. But the average American consumes over 200 pounds of flesh and 600 pounds of dairy products each year, most of it sourced from animals raised on concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, or fattened on concentrated feedlots. A growing number of Americans claim to care about animal welfare and support animal welfare legislation. With the explosive growth of artificial insemination in the past 30 years, much meat production in the United States depends on forcibly inserting objects into female animals’ genitals.įor decades, the meat industry in America has been running up against the contradictions in how Americans conceptualize animal cruelty. The overwhelming majority of states that use similar laws to criminalize sex between animals and humans provide precisely such an exemption. But it preserved other itemized crimes in the law, including making “sodomy between a person and an animal” punishable by up to six months in prison, defining the crime to encompass “any penetration of the female sex organ by … any object.” Although it made allowances for “generally recognized health care practices,” it offered no exemption for everyday animal breeding. In 2010, the Kansas legislature revised the state’s “criminal sodomy” statute-historically vague laws criminalizing multiple forms of nonprocreative sex-to delete language that criminalized consensual gay sex.
It isn’t spoken of much, but a significant chunk of the Kansas economy depends on pervasive violations of its anti-bestiality laws.
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