WARNING: This topic is heavy and not light hearted in the least. I wouldn’t be surprised if no one had anything to say other than EEWW!

Yesterday I spent my usual Sunday evening watching movies. I decided I was in the mood for an independent. I went to the free movies section zipped down the list and stopped at Zoo. I didn’t even read the description I thought with a title like that this should be interesting, I’m game. Boy that wasn’t the half of it or as Spanky would say “Aaand Hooww”.

Zoo turned out to be a very controversial documentary film about bestiality, with special attention to a group in Washington State and the investigation of a man who was killed by having sex with a horse back in July of 2005, yes, a horse. I realize the topic alone much less a discussion of the details and feelings involved is enough to make people shut down but IMO the documentary was as much necessary as it is controversial.

First of all the title “Zoo” is code for a term used by those who desire/engage in such activity when communicating and searching out other individuals and or groups. One might think that such individuals are relegated to the introverted quiet uneducated red neck ranch hand variety but quite to the contrary these individuals stride in all walks of life professional educated successful and other wise, even husbands and fathers. The hosts of this particular group would discretely seek out other like minded individuals meet with them in person in public first. If the meeting went well and they liked them they’d be invited out to the farm when the group got together. On the surface their meetings looked like any other gathering of close friends. They were pot luck affairs with blended drinks and board games. Then as the night wore on one by one, two by two or groups would spontaneously wonder out to the barns and stables where they would engage in what they were there to do.

The man who was killed in July of 2005 befriended the group and became a very intimate member. Out side of his alien intimate desires he was just like any other hard working father. The groups host recounted how he would go on and on about his son and his achievements in school, how proud he was of him. He’d talk about the house he was building so his family could be together. He had dreams and plans just like anyone else the host says and conversations like this were typical of the gatherings just regular people who for any other aspect of their life than this dark desire they share are every day people.

On the night of the tragedy the man had been drinking and according to the host did not really have much or any experience with the animal in question an Arabian stallion. A while had past and the man approached the host telling him he had to get to a hospital right away. The man had suffered internal injury which caused internal bleeding and died almost immediately upon arrival into the ER. Investigation turned up a cast of the horses penis at the mans house so apparently this had been his ultimate conquest. Ironically the man was not even supposed to be there that night because his son was visiting that week with his mother in hopes of reuniting the family. But in the end peer pressure got the better of him and the rest is history.

My appreciation of this film is that it shed much needed light on the feelings, desires and who but my disappointment is that it did not get into the psychology of (why), something I’d like to explore more in the future. I’m just always fascinated by these strange and yes sometimes completely alien desires of the human mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(movie)