This is why cats, dogs, sheep, cows, hens, rabbits, goats, mules, ducks, rabbits, horses, boars, bulls, and fishes are more frequently used, rather than gorillas, chimpanzees, and other animals. But is bestiality a form of forced sex itself? Recently this claim has been advanced by animal advocates.įorms of bestiality include opportunistic or safety-valve sex in which the animal is viewed as an available sex object who provides sexual release in the absence of a human partner fixated sex involves persons who see animals not as mere stand-ins but as love objects and exclusive sexual “partners” in domineering sex, batterers, rapists, and pornographers arrange or force sex between a human and an animal in order to exploit or to humiliate the human, most often a woman. Is rape something a human does to another human? Or is bestiality a form of rape? It is known that women have been raped by abusers who force sex with animals, or force animals upon women. Acts of bestiality highlight interesting aspects of the definition of rape. In its narrowest sense, bestiality involves intercourse, either vaginal or anal, with a nonhuman animal but bestiality can also include oral-genital contact of any kind between humans and animals, as well as the insertion of digits or objects other than the penis into the vagina, anus, or cloaca.