Discussion Main / BestialityIsDepraved

Finally cutting this example. It has the "depraved" angle since it's used (falsely) to smear Wikus, but since the aliens are sapient, it's not bestiality, and frankly, given the film's not-so-subtle racism analogy, I find it pretty disturbing to refer to it as such.

• District 9: After Wikus flees the Corrupt Corporate Executive and his goons, the media reports that he had sex with aliens and contracted an STD. Every human he talks to after that for the rest of the movie comments on his alien sex, which they think is the cause of Wikus' steady transformation into an alien. Totally justified in that thanks to MNU's propaganda, that's all anyone did know about Wikus.

It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird

In a setting with multiple intelligent species and/or shapeshifters, would this trope only apply to sapient/non-sapient pairings, or does the shape of either partner matter (biped/quadriped, assuming both participants are sapient). Alternatively, would it only depend on the social norms each intelligent species is used to?

Is there a inverse trope for when the animal is the depraved one and the human is the victim?

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Is there a inverse trope for when the animal is the depraved one and the human is the victim?

I got my political views from reddit and that's bad

Since animals aren't cognitive enough to consent, shouldn't this be under the "Sexual Harassment and Rape" page? Because that's essentially what it is and why its considered immoral

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Considering how often and accepted it is as dirty humor, can this trope really fall under Dude, Not Funny!?

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Not sure whether the District 9 example counts as bestiality. I guess it might fit, since the aliens were commonly seen as being dumb and brutish, but they were clearly more intelligent than nonsapient animals. I'd say that a human (allegedly) having sex with an alien would be a perversion, but not bestiality.

It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird

The account for this is dead, so I'm moving it here in the hopes someone will remember what it was and restore it if there's another copy.

• Used in this Youtube Poop. (See 0:50)

Should we say "Don't insult her like that—she was a beautiful one from Blue Mountain State!" as a way to get around the "Still a Goat" bit? (Blue Mountain State have the "Mountain Goats" for a football team.)

But You Screw One Goat renamed to Bestiality Is Depraved per TRS thread

Edited by SeptimusHeap "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

According to the trope namer quote, we have a bit of inconsistency. The quote talks about the guy doing all this thankless hard work, but when he 'screws the goat' he is apparently framed as a goat screwer, to put it mildly. However, the page deals with a kind of animal 'abuser'. According to the page quote, this is wrong, and vice versa. Could I get clarification on whether this is the right trope or not?

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Re: Aberforth pic... Isn't it Just A Face And A Caption? I could restore it otherwise.

Not to mention Fanon.

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The real life section holds several examples of "rumors" and the legal status of bestiality. Shouldn't this be under other?

If no one objects, I'm going to add to the stated reasoning behind why "It works". I don't really think the lack of public support for bestiality is why this trope can be acceptably played for laughs; after all, there's no widespread support for pedophilia, and that certainly isn't played for laughs except in the quarters of Dead Baby Comedy. This trope's ubiquity must have more to do with our moral distance from animals, plus the outright rarity of the practice, which adds to its weirdness and makes it less "real" (like cartoon violence).