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writes:Coming off of Valentine's Day and after a random thought provoked by an email, I'm pondering zoophilia and agalmatophilia. Yeah, I do mean the love of animals and inanimate objects.Wait, wait! Don't go leaving that dirty joke on my comments just yet. I'm not going to lie, it started out as a bit of an amusement...I was reminded of a website I had seen ages back done by a man who fell in love with and married the Berlin Wall http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/eija.html, which led me to remembering the woman who married a dolphin http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10694972/...and of course, not content to leave it just at reading the articles, I spent some time browsing various message boards to get a feel for people's opinions and then on to reading some more thought-provoking articles on the subject http://www.zoophilia.net/ .And I got to thinking...sure, it's easy enough to laugh at such things, and perhaps there is something inherently funny about a man who has a relationship with a wall, but I'm thinking now about what we think love really is.One of the arguments against zoophilia and other less usual loves, is that there is no consent possible, or at least not obviously so (one can argue that animals that are able to show sexual arousal when manipulated by humans are giving consent, but that would then open up the can of worms about people who respond sexually during rape, mentally incapacitated adults, and children). But is consent all that it's cracked up to be? If I were deeply in love with a man who didn't even like me...is that perverse? He certainly isn't consenting to the relationship, and I can promise you, I have definitely been deeply in love with men who had all the responses of my garden wall.Of course, you can also argue that this kind of love just isn't natural. Many people make those same arguments about same sex relationships and relationships between two people far differing in age--and when it comes to love of an inanimate object, I have rarely seen such sexual dedication as that which my dog has for one particular pillow. What is the natural state of love?It is possible to politicize this issue, of course. Bill O'Reilly has gone on record as saying that the reason he opposes same-sex marriage is because it is a "slippery slope" where soon people will be wanting to marry their "goats" and their "ducks". But I am not as interested in the politics, and I'm really not interested at all in the same-sex marriage debate...what I want to know is, what makes love love? Can the love a person has for an inanimate object really reflect the belief that all objects have energy and soul, or is it just a creepy way to avoid realistic relationships? Are these people experiencing the pure love that only animals can give, or are they creating a false feeling to fill their emotional emptiness?Please note: Believe it or not, ALL articles linked above ARE safe for work.
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