It isn’t social pressure causing the decline in random sexual partners; conservatives could celebrate a major victory in reversing our national moral decline if it were, but it’s not. These kids have a dysfunctional relationship with sex that, if left unchecked, leads to journal articles arguing to make zoophilia morally acceptable. …

An anonymous article written under the pseudonym “Fira Benst” was published in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, arguing to make zoophilia “morally permissible.” The author apparently wants to pave the way for humans to commit bestiality without stigma by claiming it’s a sexual orientation like “heterosexuality or bisexuality” and should be “distinguished from mere fetishes.”

“I would like to argue that zoophilia is permissible, i.e., that it is not wrong to engage in zoophilia. To do this,” the author writes, “I will take for granted a broadly antispeciesist or non-anthropocentric perspective that rejects human exceptionalism.”

[Well, when society reduces sex to an animalistic function that has no other function or purpose, why should we be shocked when other animals enter the equation? Pope Paul VI was far more prophetic than anyone thought with Humanae Vitae. It’s incomprehensible that any ‘journal’ would publish this; it’s not at all surprising that Peter Singer promoted it, though. — Ed]