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Love Has (NO) Boundaries: Researching a Sexual Taboo
International Journal of Social Science Studies
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Love Has (NO) Boundaries: Researching a Sexual Taboo
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Shir-Vertesh, Dafna
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Sexual and emotional attraction humans feel towards animals, also known as zoophilia, is perhaps the most controversial facet of human-animal relationships. In this article I explore this seemingly ultimate transgression of interspecies boundaries and probe the Israeli cultural encounters with it. I discern how the stated concerns for normative sexuality and animal rights masquerade the underlying factors in the zoophilia taboo, and reveal the cultural implications of human-animal sexual love in Israel. My fieldwork reveals not only the limits of acceptable human-animal love, but also the limits of legitimate research, and the consequences entailed for those who resolve to challenge them.
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Redfame Publishing
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2013-02-28
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/63
10.11114/ijsss.v1i1.63 |
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International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 1, No 1 (2013); p161-172
2324-8041 2324-8033 |
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eng
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http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/63/53
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