Animals like Sex
Sex Education and Religious Deprogramming
By: Mark Schmid
Version: 2010.02.11
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The Origin of the Belief that Animals don't like Sex
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In most of these people I could discern one or more of the following three traits:
- Religious upbringing or parents and false projection of religious values and ideals onto animals.
- Women who don't like sex themselves and false projection of their feelings (or lacking feelings) onto animals.
- Upbringing with "teaching animals" in childhood, which were artificially desexualized through
castration (often referred to as "spaying" / "neutering").
Religious Upbringing or Parents and false Projection of Religious Values and Ideals onto Animals
Religious upbringing or religious parents make for a generally very twisted view and understanding of sexuality, even in regards to human sexuality. Besides most religions being speciesist and thus generally not acknowledging animals the same range of emotions, feelings and pleasures which people might be capable of experiencing, many religions, such as Christianity damn the pleasure and enjoyment of sex in general. They teach that sex is something to be had only to procreate, to produce offspring, never for pleasure or enjoyment. Consequently they outlaw any sexual activities which do not lead to pregnancy and offspring as human perversions, as the devil's work and as sin.
For someone who grew up in a religious family or environment, especially if he or she likes or even idolizes animals, and this goes especially for animal protection advocates, it is therefore very easy to project their often totally unconscious religious ideals, which had been instilled into them from birth, onto animals, to see animals idealized and without sin, even in regards to their unconscious religious set of ideals. And because of the teachings in regards to sexuality of many common religions, people who like animals and who were brought up in a religious family or environment, often believe that animals which they like so well, are also "good" in a religious sense, without sin and hence don't like or enjoy sex, but have sex only for procreation, just like their religion taught them what good people, people without sin have sex for.
Women who don't like Sex themselves and false Projection of their Feelings (or lacking Feelings) onto Animals
Women who don't like sex themselves are the other big group of people who believe that animals don't like sex. This is simple, straight forward projection or generalization, that is false everywhere where animals in fact do like sex.
Despite the fact that many women feel a lot of group pressure in Western societies to be like men, and thus, to love and enjoy sex like men, many or perhaps even most of them simply don't. They simply don't have testosterone like men, and thus the libido and pleasure of sex like men. If they did, they would act like men. Often women just don't have the courage (testosterone?) to admit that they don't like sex because of western society's strong equalization pressure between genders.
In Western society, women must be like men and vice versa. So if men like sex, so must women. If men have orgasms during sex, so must women. After all, they're equal, right? If I recall correctly, a recent statistic of women's sexual behavior revealed that by the age of 60 years, close to 95% of all women had faked an orgasm at least once in their life during sex and an astonishingly high number of women stated that they have never had an orgasm at all in their life.
This should be a hint, how high the group pressure is for women to be "equal" to men, and to "like" sex just like men do, when in reality, as can be seen for instance by any statistic of the distribution of porn consumption between genders, they really don't.
To someone who never enjoyed sex and never felt sexual pleasure, it is just as hard to explain what it is like, as to a sexually immature child. It is all but natural therefore that such people assume that animals, which obviously are so much like humans in many regards, which are like themselves in many regards, supposedly also don't like sex, just like them.
Upbringing with "Teaching Animals" in Childhood, which were artificially desexualized through Castration (often referred to as "spaying" / "neutering")
The third group of people who believe that animals don't like sex are people who, in their childhood, were brought up with "teaching animals", which were artificially desexualized through castration.
In western societies millions of boys and girls grow up in families which use animals as "teaching objects" for children, as commodities which serve the purpose of being desexualized subordinate companions, consumer objects, four-legged pet-objects, leisure time partners, slave- and learning-objects without a sexuality or sexual needs, toys which do not even have the most fundamental rights and dignity, such as protection from bodily mutilation. Because such animals are sexually mutilated through castration in order to maximize their usage, their fitting into the intended usage and exploitation for which they are kept, such boys and girls grow up with a very false and problematic image of animals as sex-less "companion-objects" without sexual needs, that don't like sex, and which, only and alone for the satisfaction of human needs, may be instrumentalized, exploited and even physically mutilated in a severe manner. Exactly like toys.
Then as adults, they continue to uphold this image, this status of animals as objects without an own dignity and rights and without a sexuality. As objects which do not like sex, which cannot like sex because they have no sexuality. The sexual mutilation and other degradation and exploitation of animals for the satisfaction of own personal needs, even if it's just for fun and leisure, is continued, becomes a tradition and a culture which in the end is passed on with the gift of a sexually mutilated animal for the own kids. And nobody asks what effect this has on our respect for animals, on animal protection and on society.
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