often used female asses which appeared to show signs erotic indain story of sexual
pleasure.
A very large number of animals have been recorded as having been employed
in the gratification of sexual erotic indain story desire at some period or in some country,
by men and sometimes by women. Domestic animals are naturally those which
most frequently come into question, and there are few if any of these
which can erotic indain story altogether be excepted. The sow is one of the animals most
frequently abused in this manner.[51] Cases in which mares, cows, and
donkeys figure constantly occur, as well as goats and sheep. Dogs, cats,
and rabbits are heard of from time to time. Hens, ducks, and, especially
in China, geese, are erotic indain story not uncommonly employed. The erotic indain story Roman ladies were said
to have had an abnormal affection for snakes. The bear and even erotic indain story the
crocodile are also mentioned.[52]
The social and legal attitude toward bestiality has reflected in part the
frequency with which it erotic indain story has been practiced, and in part the disgust mixed
with mystical and erotic indain story sacrilegious horror which it has aroused. It has
sometimes been met merely by a fine, and sometimes the offender and his
erotic indain story innocent partner have been burnt together. In the middle ages and later
erotic indain story its frequency is erotic indain story attested by the fact that erotic indain story it formed a favorite topic with
preachers of erotic indain story the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is significant erotic indain story that
in the Penitentials,--which were criminal codes, erotic indain story half secular erotic indain story and half
spiritual, in use before the thirteenth century, when penance was
relegated to the judgment of the confessor,--it was thought necessary to
fix erotic indain story the periods of penance which should be undergone respectively by
bishops, priests and deacons
who should be guilty of bestiality.
In Egbert's Penitential, a document of the ninth and tenth
centuries, we read (V. 22): "Item Episcopus cum quadrupede
fornicans VII annos, consuetudinem X, presbyter erotic indain story V, diaconus III,
clerus II." There was a great erotic indain story range in the penances for
bestiality, from ten years to (in the case of boys) one hundred
days. The mare is erotic indain story specially mentioned (Haddon and Stubbs,
_Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents_, vol. iii, p. 422). In
Theodore's Penitential, another Anglo-Saxon
document of about the
same age, those who habitually fornicate with animals are
adjudged ten years of penance. It erotic indain story would appear from the
_Penitentiale Pseudo-Romanum_ (which is earlier than the erotic indain story eleventh
century) that one year's penance erotic indain story was adequate for fornication