zoosexuality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From zoosexual + -ity. First attested in the 1980s.
Noun[edit]
zoosexuality (uncountable)
- Zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
- [2009, Monika Bakke, “Human-nonhuman libidinal relations”, in Tom Tyler, Manuela Rossini, editor, Animal Encounters, page 224:
- 3. The term "zoosexuality", understood as sexual orientation towards animals, has been in use since the 1980s; it was popularized by Miletski's research in the 1990s.]
- 2017, R.J. Maratea, Philip R. Kavanaugh, and Joshua Tafoya, “Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse”, in Routledge Handbook on Deviance:
- ZSB posters effectively suggest that zoosexuals are misunderstood outcasts who are demonized as deviant because most people lack the mental capacity to understand human-animal sexuality. This point is further crystallized when posters neutralize the deviance of zoosexuality by comparison to other alternative sexualities that have attained some measure of social acceptability.