point — Vermeersch, On Chastity

II. On Bestiality

347.

The moral notion of bestiality.

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347. - Bestiality is lying together or coitus with a beast.

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1. For the moral essence of this infamous sin, it is necessary that the sinner have willed to enjoy the body of a beast. This will regularly be present in the abuse of a larger beast.

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But when someone abuses a smaller beast, for example a hen, it can very easily happen that he has taken the beast in the same manner as an inanimate thing, as an instrument of pollution sought because of its imitation of the female organ. Then, according to moral estimation, it seems to us that pollution with a fornicatory affection has been committed; nor must the circumstance of the beast be declared any more than the circumstance of an inanimate thing.

¶1820.

The canonical notion.

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2. For the canonical essence of the sin, when bestiality itself is reserved and nothing more severe has been declared, the lying together of consummated copulation is required and suffices.

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3. Neither morally nor canonically does it matter of what genus or sex the beast was.

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Formerly, indeed, congress with a beast of the other sex was thought to create the danger of a monstrous offspring; but the matter has today been ascertained, and it is certain that no offspring is to be feared.