性行为的基本类型

4. 与动物的性接触

罕有的行为

现今，通过对人与动物的性接触的统计频率彻底研究之后，似乎颇令人感到奇怪，那些杰出的宗教、法律和精神病权威们倒底为了什么不辞辛劳地对这件事投入这么大的关注力。我们现在确信，这种性活动类型实际上是非常罕见的。它在男性中非常罕见，在女性中甚至更加罕见。简而言之，它一点也没有真正的社会意义。我们因而不得不推测，对这种行为的强烈的社会谴责，起初只是服务于某种象征性的宗教目的。

似乎，在将来，在我们的社会里，希望这些法律和医学权威们不要那么过多地关注人与动物之间的性接触，不要那么先入为主地自以为是。毕竟，只要动物没有受到伤害或受到虐待，就不存在需要社会加以干涉的问题。想要对这样的孤立的性接触尝试贴上精神病的标签，同样是不讲道理的或不切实际的。只有总是宁愿与动物而不是与人的性伴发生性接触的男女，才能真正地被考虑出现了性失调。在这种情形之下，就像在其他所有的性行为失调的情形一样，这样的个体限定和强迫自己的性体验，这才可能推荐专业人员提供帮助。(欲知某些参考信息，请点击此处)

Today, after exhaustive studies of the statistical frequency of human sexual contact with animals, it seems rather odd that eminent religious, legal, and psychiatric authorities should ever have bothered to pay any attention to it. We now know that this type of sexual activity is actually very uncommon. It is quite rare among men, and even rarer among  women. In short, it is of no real social significance. We therefore have to assume that its strong social condemnation originally served only certain symbolic religious purposes.
It is likely that, in the future, the legal and medical authorities in our society will be much less preoccupied with sexual contact between humans and animals. After all, as long as the animal is not hurt or mistreated, there is no need for social interference. It is also unreasonable to attach psychiatric labels to isolated attempts at such contact. Only men and women who always prefer animals to human partners can really be considered sexually maladjusted. In this case, as in all other cases of sexual behavior that are experienced as confining and compulsive by the individual, professional help may very well be recommended.
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