Timeline of zoophilia
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The timeline of zoophilia covers the history of zoophilia and bestiality among humans and non-human animals.
Before the Common Era
Prehistory
Upper Paleolithic
23rd millennium BCE
230th century BCE
- c. 22,995 BCE – A bone rod is engraves in a cave in Abri de la Madeleine, France, depicting a lioness licking the opening of either a gigantic human penis or a vulva.[1]
Ancient history
Bronze Age
2nd millennium BCE
18th century BCE
- c. 1,750 BCE – The Code of Hammurabi is written and in the code, King Hammurabi of the Paleo-Babylonian Empire proclaims capital punishment for anyone engaging in bestiality.[1]
15th century BCE
- c. 1,406 BCE – The Book of Deuteronomy is written during this period and within the text it states the:
"Cursed be anyone who lies with any animal.” All the people shall say, “Amen!"[2]
13th century BCE
- c. 1,300 BCE – c. 1,201 BCE – The Hittite laws are written for the Hittite Empire, which punished male bestiality with a pig, a dog, or a cow with capital punishment, while male bestiality with a horse or a mule only prohibited the man from approaching the king or becoming a priest.[3][1]
Classical antiquity
1st millennium BCE
7th century BCE
- c. 700 BCE – c. 601 BCE – A cave painting is painted in Val Camonica, Italy depicting a man inserting his penis into the vagina or anus of a donkey.[1]
7th century BCE – 5th century BCE
- c. 700 BCE – c. 401 BCE – The Book of Leviticus is written during this period and within the text it states the following:
"You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion. Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves."[4]
"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them."[5]
6th century BCE – 4th century BCE
- c. 600 BCE – c. 301 BCE – The Book of Exodus is written during this period and within the text it states that:
"Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death."[6]
5th century BCE
- c. 486 BCE – King Darius I adopts the Holiness Code of the Book of Leviticus for Persian Jews of the Achaemenid Empire, enacting capital punishment for bestiality.[7]
- c. 440 BCE – In Histories, Herodotus wrote that:
"In my lifetime a strange thing occurred in this district: a he-goat had intercourse openly with a woman."[8]
1st century BCE
- c. 27 BCE – At the beginning of the Roman Empire, legal retribution for bestiality was required only for sodomy, under which bestiality was included.[1]
Common Era
Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages
1st millennium
8th century
- 726 – Emperor Leo III the Isaurian issues Ecloga (17.39) for the Byzantine Empire, which makes male bestiality punishable by the removal of the penis.[9]
High Middle Ages
2nd millennium
13th century
- c. 1,250 – 1,281 – The Younger Westrogothic law (Urbotamäl 3. DL) of the Kingdom of Sweden, in the province of West Gothland, enacts a ban on bestiality and those convicted are expiated by pilgrimage to Rome as penance, along with payment of a fine consisting of three times nine marks.[10][11]
13th century – 14th century
- c. 1,250 – 1,350 – In the Kingdom of Sweden, the provinces of Dalarna, Uppland, Västmanland enacts capital punishment for those convicted for bestiality were buried alive for both the perpetrator and the animal, while the province of Södermanland in the Kingdom of Sweden stipulates the perpetrator could be either buried alive or burned at the stake.[11]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Podberscek, Anthony; Beetz, Andrea, eds. (2005). Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals. ISBN 1557534128.
- ↑ Deuteronomy 27:21
- ↑ Ascione, Frank, ed. (2008). The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application. p. 205. ISBN 1557535655.
- ↑ Leviticus 18:23–18:24
- ↑ Leviticus 20:15–20:16
- ↑ Exodus 22:19
- ↑ Dynes, Wayne, ed. (1990). Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2. p. 1418. ISBN 9781317368113.
- ↑ "2" 46 [4]. Histories. ISBN 0674991303.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|script-chapter=: missing prefix (help) - ↑ M. T. G. Humphreys, Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv, 312. ISBN 9780198701576. $125.00.
- ↑ It is rare that the primary punishment for bestiality is pecuniary; the crime usually led to capital punishment.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Ekholst, Christine (2014). A Punishment for Each Criminal: Gender and Crime in Swedish Medieval Law. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9789004271623.
