The Twisted History of Beastiality
This is the conversation with Barstool Breakfasts' Pattie (Producer, Gay Pat) that started it all …
Mr. Hands (2005) Have You Ever Heard of The Man Who Died From Having Sex with a Horse?
The Seattle Times reported a story in 2005 called The Enumclaw Horse Sex Case which was one of the paper’s most-read stories of the year. The King County Sheriff’s Department said it was “too gruesome” to report on, because well, it was. Two years later a documentary entitled "Zoo" debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Zoo was also about the Enumclaw Horse Sex Case. The film was one of the winners at the festival and was presented at the Cannes Film Festival the same year.
In the docu-film, there was a clip called “2 Guys 1 Horse”. It was the collected video of Kenneth Pinyan, also known as “Mr. Hands,” having receptive anal sex with a horse. This video became a viral sensation. Initially, the video had been recorded for distributions for other zoophiles, but now the world has it. Unfortunately.
On a list of things not to become famous for, we now have the story of Mr. Hands. By day Mr. Hands was seemingly normal. He was a longterm engineer of Boeing and had worked there for eight years. Previously, he’d even been married and fathered multiple children. For an undisclosed reason, he relocated moving from Seattle to Washington State. Mr. Hands was Kenny’s (let’s call him Kenny) nickname to his fellow zoophile friends. There ‘s no way to say this like it’s completely normal, so I’ll just be straightforward. A zoophile is someone who has an “attraction or [sexual] preference” for animals.
How Did Kenny end up f*king horses in backwoods Washington farms? The internet, of course. But before that, there was the accident. A recent motorcycle accident had left Kenny unable to the ability to feel certain sensations. So, he started experimenting with large dildos, fisting, and other extreme sexual acts. When he found the group of men calling themselves “zoos” online in early 2005, he started meeting up with them for weekends at an “unincorporated” farm in King County, Washington State.
The “unincorporated area” is important because of a law dating back over three decades. You see, in the 1970’s Washington State kind-of-accidentally made bestiality legal. It happened in 1974 when this law was being repealed:
Every person who shall carnally know in any manner any animal or bird, or who shall carnally know any male or female person by the anus or with the mouth or tongue; or who shall voluntarily submit to such knowledge; or who shall attempt sexual intercourse with a dead body, shall be guilty of sodomy …— 9.79.100 of the 1974 Revised Code of Washington
They were repealing it because they had made anal and oral sex illegal. Given human and consensual sexual interaction, there was no reason for this law. Fast forward to the early 2000s and we have a group of three men sneaking off to unincorporated land to skirt any of the laws in which they could get into trouble for engaging in sexual activity with livestock. That’s what the “zoos” did on the weekends when they met up. The men would also film videos of each other being sodomized by horses and sometimes cows to post online. And on occasion, they would have sex with each other, too.
Also, sodomize means anal sex. For an undisclosed amount of time, the men did this without an incident. Until the incident.
Pinyan’s Unfortunate Death
The incident that again took place in an unincorporated area in King County. They were just five miles north of the city of Enumclaw. James Michael Tait, Kenneth Pinyan, and a third man were doing their thing. When it was Kenneth’s turn to be penetrated by a stallion, he suffered internal injuries during the act. Tait rushed to the hospital anonymously and dropped him off. Pinyan died in the emergency room at 45. The Medical Examiner’s Office says that his cause of death was acute peritonitis due to a perforation colon.
An investigation was opened after Pinyan died. Using his license and the hospital surveillance cameras to find Tait, police officers were able to track down his associates and the exact farm area they were trespassing on. But, due to that law change, the legality of the situation was …uhm, non-existent?
It was only after Pinyan died, when law enforcement looked for one way to punish his associates, that the legality of bestiality in Washington State became an issue […] The prosecutor’s office wanted to charge Tait with animal abuse, but the police found no evidence of abused animals on the many videotapes they collected from his home. As there was no law against humanely fucking a horse, the prosecutors could only charge Tait with trespassing.
James Michael Tait’s Trial
After trial, Tait was tried and charged with criminal trespassing in the first degree. His sentence was relatively light seeing as Mr. Hands was, well, dead. James Michael Tait was arrested and charged with animal cruelty again in 2009.
To this day the people of Enumclaw don’t speak of the event, naturally. While some say that since the culture of Enumclaw is such a horse positive community and everyone there is a horse enthusiast; the horse sex case is not that surprising. The locals would like to disagree and will deny that it even happened. The city even removed the sign on the farm that the incident occurred on so no one could find it or be reminded of it.
After Pinyan’s death, there was a bill passed that banned bestiality and declared it a Class C Felony. No one opposed the law.
Thank God.
Definitions
Bestiality is cross-species sexual activity between human and non-human animals.
Zoophilia is a paraphilia involving a sexual fixation on non-human animals. The terms are often used interchangeably, but some researchers make a distinction between the attraction (zoophilia) and the act (bestiality)
Cross-species sexual activity is widespread in pornographic art from the 1700s and 1800s onward, often graphically depicted in especially Europe, India and Japan. Some of it is clearly fantasy, as in an Indian classic showing a woman coupling with a graceful elephant, or in “The Fisherman’s Wife” by the great Japanese artist Hokusai, showing a woman having sex with an eager octopus. The concepts are ancient, like the Greek legend of Leda and the Swan, in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, rapes or seduces Leda.
Alfred Kinsey, The Kinsey ReportWriting in the 1940’s, famed sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey (the Kinsey Report) estimated that 8% of men and 3.6% of women had engaged in some sort of sexual act with an animal. However, these figures were disputed in academia due to the fact that an unreasonably high proportion of the subjects in Kinsey's widely-cited study were either farmers or prisoners. However, his statistics are still referred to in current articles because there aren’t many recent academic studies on this.
A later study in 1974 by Morton M Hunt put the prevalence of men and women having intimate relations with animals at 4.9% and 1.9% respectively.
There aren’t many recent academic studies on it, except 2… 1) that doctors found a correlation between penile cancer in Brazil with rural farmers who admitted to bestiality Doctors found an increased desire towards animals in Parkinson’s patients that have increased their dopamine intake as a treatment.
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There is a degree of similarity between the zoophile and the pedophile, in that they both seek unequal partners, less able to assert or form their own decisions in the situation, and may persuade themselves that their chosen partner is willing.
California man named Sexy Vegan enters plea in dog sex-assault case (2020)
A California man named Sexy Vegan entered a no-contest plea in a case where he was accused of sexually assaulting his dog and posting a video of the abuse on social media, officials announced Friday.
Vegan — whose name was previously Hansel Marion DeBartolo III — was busted for posting a video that showed a pit bull licking his rear end on Sept. 5, the Los Angeles County DA’s office said. The 37-year-old West Hollywood man entered the no-contest plea to one misdemeanor count of disturbing the peace and was sentenced to two years probation, 100 hours of community services, and a 52-week sexual offender program, prosecutors said.
He had initially been charged with one misdemeanor count each of sexual assault on an animal and posting obscene matter. As part of his plea, the two dogs that were taken from Vegan — who has his moniker tattooed across his face — won’t be returned to him, and he cannot get any new pets during his probation, prosecutors said.
Vegan was kicked off of an episode of “Dr. Phil” — called “My Brother Changed His Name to ‘Sexy Vegan,’ - Wears Speedos in Public, and is "Spending My Mom’s $11 Million Inheritance!” — for using excessive profanity.
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