Editing Zoophilia (section)

=== Bestiality ===
[[File:日本春宫册页《女人和狗》.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Japanese ''[[wikipedia:ukiyo-e|ukiyo-e]]'' [[wikipedia:woodblock print|woodblock print]] from [[wikipedia:Kunisada|Utagawa Kunisada]]'s series, "Eight Canine Heroes of the House of Satomi", 1837.]]
[[File:Indiaerotic5.jpg|thumb|right|350px|An 18<sup>th</sup>-century Indian miniature depicting women practicing zoophilia in the bottom register.]]
The legal term ''bestiality'' has three common pronunciations: {{IPA|[ˌbestʃiˈæləti]}} or {{IPA|[ˌbistʃiˈæləti]}} in the United States,<ref name="pronunciation">{{Cite web|title=How to pronounce BESTIALITY in English|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/bestiality|website=Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=2024-08-10|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and {{IPA|[ˌbestiˈæləti]}} in the United Kingdom.<ref name="pronunciation" /> Some zoophiles and researchers draw a distinction between ''zoophilia'' and ''bestiality'', using the former to describe the desire to form sexual relationships with animals and the latter to describe the sex acts alone. Confusing the matter yet [[further]], writing in 1962, Masters used the term ''bestialist'' specifically in his discussion of zoosadism.

Stephanie LaFarge, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the New Jersey Medical School, and Director of Counseling at the [[wikipedia:American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals|ASPCA]], writes that two groups can be distinguished: bestialists, who rape or abuse animals, and zoophiles, who form an emotional and sexual attachment to animals.<ref name="roth">{{Cite news|last=Roth|first=Melinda|date=1999-12-15|title=All Opposed, Say “Neigh”|url=https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/all-opposed-say-neigh-2475096|newspaper=St. Louis (MO) Riverfront Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209090649if_/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/all-opposed-say-neigh-2475096|archive-date=2023-02-09|url-status=live|access-date=2024-08-21|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Colin J. Williams]] and [[Martin Weinberg]] studied self-defined zoophiles via the internet and reported them as understanding the term ''zoophilia'' to involve concern for the animal's welfare, pleasure, and [[Sexual consent|consent]], as distinct from the self-labelled zoophiles' concept of "bestialists", whom the zoophiles in their study defined as focused on their own gratification. Williams and Weinberg also quoted a British newspaper saying that ''zoophilia'' is a term used by "apologists" for ''bestiality''.<ref name="asb">{{Cite journal|last1=Williams|first1=Colin J.|last2=Weinberg|first2=Martin S.|title=Zoophilia in men: a study of sexual interest in animals|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026085410617|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=32|issue=6|pages=523–535|date=December 2003|pmid=14574096|doi=10.1023/A:1026085410617|url-access=subscription|access-date=2024-08-21|df=mdy-all}}</ref>