Editing Non-Human Animal Consent (section)

==Research==

Masters, in 1962, wrote "It has always been noted in fact, by ancient historians and up through Kinsey in our own time, that animals tend to become affectionately attached (not only physically) to humans who have sex relations with them, and sometimes have even been known to forsake intercourse with their own kind in testimony to their preference for relations with humans. Whatever one may think of [[bestiality]], this does not sound as if it were an act of cruelty so far as the animal is concerned."

And ultimately speculated that:
"One seems forced to conclude, the animal derives a considerable psychical and/or emotional pleasure from sexual contact with a being of a higher nervous, emotional, and intellectual organization, who is somehow able to provide the animal with non-material rewards which another animal is not able to offer."

Similar findings are also reported by Kinsey (cited by Masters 1962), and others earlier in [[history]]. Likewise, Miletski (1999) notes that information on sex with animals on the internet is often very emphatic as to how to give pleasure and identify consent beforehand, to the point that "one can find instructions on how to tell if the animal is in the mood for sex."