Man, Nature, etc.
Ah, I've been too busy to really blog, as most of you know, and the result has been a bunch of slap-dash posts with a serious mini-essay or two inserted on the very rare occasion. I try to give my best when I can and, when not, to at least give some food for thought which may be from another person's picnic basket.
The day job's a killer, but it's all that's keeping me from the hoosegow.
Tonight, I'm working on a bigger project which with the clock already reading "hour of the wolf" probably won't be completed before my face crashes, as usual, into the keyboard until daybreak.
But I feel the NOVA TownHall Blog is about one post short of its weekly quota, and I have therefore summoned all my strength and will to deliver the final capper to the week. After scouring the Internet far and wide - scaling the heights, plumbing the depths, dropping into the bottle clubs and circumambulating the journeymen philosophers - I finally got something.
In deference to my good buddy Zimzo, I will once again grab the reliably trenchant top story from the number one news service on the Web.
THE LAST TABOO? Europeans pay big for barnyard sex It's legal – and it doesn't scare the horses, say customers, animal houses of ill reputeIs it just the latest alternate lifestyle?
Denmark's animal bordellos – in which people pay for sex with horses and other beasts – are advertising on the 'Net and drawing customers from as far away as Norway, Germany, Holland and Sweden.
As long as no one gets hurt – including the animals – Denmark won't prosecute. Neither Denmark and Norway have any laws banning the practice of bestiality – at least not yet.
The proprietors – and presumably customers as well – have convinced themselves and the governments involved that the animals are experienced and welcome the chance for this intimate interaction with another species.
Aftenposten and 24timer are reporting it costs between $85 and $170 for some animal action.
Torunn Knævelsrud, the Norwegian food safety authority's section chief for animal welfare, expressed skepticism that animals could welcome sex with people.
"It could be that the animals don't really care," Knævelsrud said. "But I think it is in the nature of the case that animals will often be victims of injury, stress or suffering in connection with sexual acts with humans. Either that they are held fast, or frightened, or suffer pain or physical injury."
Personally, I'm more of a zoning guy than a morals guy, and the libertarian in me says let's look at the sight lines and landscaping issues first. If you "love alpacas" that's fine, but your freedom ends at the tip of my nose. Do what you want with the gosh darn things but keep them out of my vegetable garden.
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