Timeline of zoophilia

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The timeline of zoophilia covers the history of zoophilia and bestiality among homo sapien sapiens' and non-homo sapien sapiens animals.

Before the Common Era

Prehistory

Upper Paleolithic

23rd millennium BCE
230th century BCE

Ancient history

Bronze Age

2nd millennium BCE
18th century BCE
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]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 27, Verses 21
13th century BCE
  • c. 1,300 BCE  – The Hittite laws 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
7th century BCE  – 5th century BCE
  • c. 700 BCE  – c. 500 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]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 18, Verses 23-24

"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]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 20, Verses 15-16
6th century BCE  – 4th century BCE
  • c. 600 BCE  – c. 400 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]

— Torah / Bible, Book of Exodus, Chapter 22, Verse 19
5th century BCE

"In my lifetime a strange thing occurred in this district: a he-goat had intercourse openly with a woman."[8]

— Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, Chapter 46, Section 4

Common Era

Middle Ages

High Middle Ages

2nd millennium
13th century

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Podberscek, Anthony; Beetz, Andrea, eds. (2005). Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals. ISBN 1557534128.
  2. Deuteronomy 27:21
  3. Ascione, Frank, ed. (2008). The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application. p. 205. ISBN 1557535655.
  4. Leviticus 18:23–18:24
  5. Leviticus 20:15–20:16
  6. Exodus 22:19
  7. Dynes, Wayne, ed. (1990). Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2. p. 1418. ISBN 9781317368113.
  8. "2" 46 [4]. Histories. ISBN 0674991303. {{cite book}}: Invalid |script-chapter=: missing prefix (help)
  9. Being Human: Bestiality, Anthropophagy, and Law