Zoophilia (Bestiality) and Buddhist Jathaka stories
Posted on December 25th, 2022
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.
සතුන් සමග රමණය බොහෝ විට එඬේර යුගයේ සිට මානවයා දැක්වූ චර්යාවක් විය හැකිය. බෞද්ධ ජාතක කතා වලද සතුන් සමග රමණය සඳහන් වෙයි. එක්තරා භික්ෂුවක් වැඳිරියක් සමග මෙවුන්ඳම් සේවනයේ යෙදීමක් පිලිබඳව බුදුන් විසින් පැනවූ තහංචියක් මෙහිදී සඳහන් කල හැක. වර්තමාන මනෝ විද්යාවේ සතුන් සමග රමණය අපගාමී ලිංගික චර්යාව ලෙස සනිටුහන් වෙයි.
The Jātaka Storyteller vividly describes the Zoophilia (Bestiality) tendency of Queen Mallika who had a sexual encounter with an animal…….
Zoophilia is a paraphilia whereby the perpetrator gets sexual pleasure in having sex with animals (Aggrawal , 2011). Zoophilia has lost its character as a severe mental disorder. (Dittert et al., 2005). Earls and Lalumière (2007) describe a case of zoophilia that challenges the widely held assumptions that men who have sex with animals are generally of below average intelligence and come from rural areas. Also they state that zoophilia is not as rare as once thought and shares many features with other atypical sexual interests. Dittert and colleagues (2005) stress that zoophilia shows a variety of manifestations. The subject’s desire to be transformed into the animal he or she has contact with can be understood as a narcissistic compound and is not related to lycanthropia.
The famous Kinsey reports on the sexual behavior of the American male and female also include data on sexual contact with animals. Kinsey and his colleagues interviewed about 5300 adults, white men, and 5800 adults, white women about their sexual experiences. Although the objectivity of the methods employed is sometimes criticized, the studies provide important information. Kinsey and his colleagues found that in rural areas about 40 to 50% of the males had had at least one sexual encounter with an animal, and 17% had even experienced an orgasm as a result of sexual contact with animals during adolescence. Amongst all the American men in the study, however, the prevalence was much lower, about 8% (Kinsey, Pomeroy & Martin, 1948; Beetz, 2005). Read more; http://transyl2014.blogspot.com/2014/10/human-sexuality-discussed-in-jataka.html