Brits Ok Bestiality Documentary

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- From the Bestiality Department
A Channel 4 documentary about bestiality, which received 75 complaints from viewers, has been cleared by television watchdogs. Animal Passions, broadcast last month, featured a man who married a horse and a woman who had sex with her pet dog. But the regulator Ofcom has ruled that it was a serious documentary which did not breach taste and decency guidelines. Ofcom said: "There was nothing in the programme that was visually explicit concerning human/animal sexual contact." This was a serious documentary exploring a rare minority sexual orientation. Although the programme gave an opportunity for zoophiles to express their opinions, the effect was neither to sensationalise nor normalise their behaviour. Viewers had been concerned the film normalised bestiality and could prompt people to emulate the sexual practices explored in it. Of the 75 viewers who complained to Ofcom, around half had not watched the programme but objected to the subject being aired on television. -Daily Telegraph (UK)
It's hard to comment on a television program that you haven't seen. But so far as can be made out from the reviews, the really interesting thing about this documentary is the fact that it was filmed in the United States but broadcast in Britain. Does that not somehow define an essential contrast between the two countries? Granted, you have to be cautious about making generalizations, and yet it's tempting to see some truth in the disparity between what we Americans do and those Brits only watch. America is the land of the free - bestiality is actually legal (or would it be more precise to say not illegal?) in about half of the fifty states - and yet people get into a dither if something overtly sexual is broadcast on"