Talk:zoophilia

RFV discussion: May–June 2015

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zoophilia

"An affinity or fondness for animals", distinct from the standard sexual sense. Is this a PaulBustion invention? Equinox ◑ 19:00, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I did not put it there, I was recommending that it be taken out. Didn't you see that?--PaulBustion88 (talk) 19:15, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I just looked at the history, its definitely not my invention, it was SemperBlotto's. https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=zoophilia&type=revision&diff=203159&oldid=203158--PaulBustion88 (talk) 19:17, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Before you assumed I wrote it, you should have looked at the edit history, you would then have seen that it was added when SemperBlotto created the entry. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 19:42, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Equinox that "an affinity or fondness for animals should be deleted from the article. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 20:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

This is not a vote; we're looking for evidence of the existence of this sense, which is at least plausible (but plausible doesn't necessarily mean real), Renard Migrant (talk) 20:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

There seems to be some evidence for this sense, although all of it is perjorative. this, this, this, and this all seem to use the term for a hypersensitivity to animal welfare - everything from cat ladies to anti-vivisectionists. Possibly also this which talks about it as a "Christian love of life", whatever that means. 121.72.243.109 06:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Also RFVing a third sense added by PaulBustion. Equinox ◑ 20:04, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Kraft-Ebbing defined zoophilia as exclusive attraction to animals in Psycopathia Sexualis, "The term zoophilia was introduced into the field of research on sexuality in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) by Krafft-Ebing, who described a number of cases of "violation of animals (bestiality)",[7] as well as "zoophilia erotica",[8] which he defined as a sexual attraction to animal skin or fur. The term zoophilia derives from the combination of two nouns in Greek: ζῷον (zṓion, meaning "animal") and φιλία (philia, meaning "(fraternal) love"). In general contemporary usage, the term zoophilia may refer to sexual activity between human and non-human animals, the desire to engage in such, or to the specific paraphilia (i.e., the atypical arousal) which indicates a definite preference for non-human animals over humans as sexual partners. Although Krafft-Ebing also coined the term zooerasty for the paraphilia of exclusive sexual attraction to animals,[9] that term has fallen out of general use." It can still mean the preference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia#General --PaulBustion88 (talk) 20:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

But I disagree with him about "primary or exclusive human sexual attraction to animals" being deleted. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 20:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Isn't this just redundancy? It's the same sense with a 'medical' tag in front of it. The thing is, it's not exclusively medical in the same way 'heart' isn't exclusively used in physiology. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:41, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

In fact I've removed it as an obvious joke. If we can have two senses with the same wording, why not have three, four, five, six or seven? Usually people change the wording just a little bit. Renard Migrant (talk) 21:06, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Kiwima has typed up the citations which the IP above provided (thank you!). See Citations:zoophilia. They all do seem to refer to a non-sexual "excessive love of animals". I've tweaked the definition a bit; I'd say it passes. - -sche (discuss) 18:21, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Passed. - -sche (discuss) 02:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)