Special Note
Our heroine, if she can be called that, became addicted to deeper and deeper perversions as she grew older. One of her sexual deviations was that of beastiality, the sexual connection with animals. Both sexes could and did indulge in this sickness. In ancient (and not so ancient) times, a great deal of beastiality was performed as a religious rite in place of or in addition to sacrificing the animals. The custom was due to the belief that the potency of the animal would pass on to the one having sexual union with the animal, which was often a goat, a ram, a donkey or any other beast which was noted for its virile sexual powers. The mating with the animal was presumed to bring virility to the woman and the livestock, and the act was supposed to be pleasing to the eyes of the fertility deities.
If woman, considering merely her side of the question, could only ally herself with her own species, why then are the denunciations conveyed in such very plain language in the Book of VLeviticus? Where, we might remark, the inspired writer tacitly takes the monstrous facts for granted.
In India, in certain of the hill districts, the women, whose occupations take them to the pastures, have sexual connection with the small race of ponies everywhere to be found there, and, so little do the inhabitants consider the fact particularly noteworthy, that an instance is in our full recollection of a native servant requesting us to order the infliction of corporal punishment upon his young and handsome spouse, because she spent too much of her time going to and from the corporal enjoyment of the little hill ponies, when she ought to have been employed more profitably to her lot and master within the compound.
On our expressing our astonishment, the fellow,-a sicee, or groom, in our employment,-added many pertinent details, which he took apparently much delight in explaining, winding up by assuring us that all the younger women of the station did the same, and that he begged we would not think the worse of his better half,-it was only the scandalous waste of time he lamented. "Sahib! Sahib; let her be beaten for that."
The small, ass, common in North Africa, and frequently to be seen in the south of France,-a particularly small and beautiful variety of the race, is also well known locally to be made use of in a similar manner, and we have ourselves seen a negress, for our special edification and experience, excite one of these animals with a facility and success which fully demonstrated his amiable willingness to profit by the occasion in the most complete manner, had she, -as she laughingly admitted she had often done, -placed herself two quatre pattes and submitted her sexual genitals to the brute's salacious penis. It is a common trick with these women to impregnate a sponge with the humidity from the sexual parts of the mare when in heat, and this sponge is then held to the nostrils of the stallion, or 'stone donkey,'-as he is called in some parts of England. The effect of this sop upon the animal is immediate and remarkable. He commences to exhibit symptoms of virility. He whinnies, snorts, and, in stable language,-draws. In this condition, if docile, he will permit himself to be further digitally excited with evident delight, and in fact, if the opportunity is afforded him, with very little more encouragement he will mount upon anything on all fours and complete his gratification without stint, provided his organ can penetrate, and he can obtain the sexual depository his senses require.
Without going further afield, we might also mention the numberless instances in which these by natural connections have undoubtedly taken place with the domestic dog. There is hardly a village in England, France or Germany, where some familiar story does not exist, respecting some such aberrated misconduct on the part of one or other of its inhabitants. It may be said that these tales are malicious inventions. Doubtless it may be so, in some instances, but whence does the idea spring, if not in itself the initiation of a plainly practical fact?
A case of this description occurred in England, which is so far typical that we tender it here in proof of our hypothesis. It happened at the assizes held by the judges on what was then called the Home Circuit, and not so many years ago but that the facts will be in the recollection of more than one celebrity of the bar and bench. It was remarked that a girl, servant at a country inn, crossed the back yard oftener than occasion seemed to require; and that she was on such errands, generally followed by a large, retriever dog. Two young fellows watched her movements,-partly out of curiosity, and partly having also, as we proved at the trial, a spite against the girl. They went round the back of the premises, climbed a wall, and displaced one of the red tiles which formed the roof of the 'garden parlour.' There, from their secret post of observation, they swore that they saw her enter, in company with the dog, bolt the door, expose her legs by raising her clothes, and arrange her position in such a manner by sitting forward on the seat, that the sagacious animal, springing upon her, actually had carnal connection with her, and he ejaculated his canine sperm into her vulva. To this they added details so 'shocking and revolting,' as the judge modestly remarked, -that the jury plainly discredited their evidence, though they were kept apart by order of the judge and separately examined, and therefore could not know what sort of crossexamination they would be subjected. It was evident to all that an acquittal was imminent, when, to the amazement of all in court, the prisoner herself suddenly broke down, and hysterically weeping, declared herself to be guilty, and to this she ever after stuck. With her hands before her rather pretty face, she broadly told the judge that: "if any woman had once tasted a dcg, she would never want a man again." In this case, the judge deferred sentence, and there being some technical irregularities in the deposition previously taken before the magistrates, the Home Secretary subsequently directed an acquittal.
We could multiply these cases ad infinitum. Some curious instances of this extravagant species of debauchery are cited in books recently published in Paris; but it seems the medical officers in the service of the Police, either wishing to suppress the facts, or, as was most likely, from sheer ignorance of the subject, declared the conjunction impossible.
Such a conclusion is, however, nonsense from a pysiological point of view; the sexual organs of the dog being perfectly well fitted to fill the conditions required, if only the patients understood how to go to work. Luckily for the society they do not, and therefore we warn them in the words of the old proverb about the danger of playing with sharp tools.
It would be impossible in a simple note of this description to do more than glance at the above facts by way of explanation of the text; but we would remark strongly and authoritatively that the many stories so persistently whispered about of conception having followed such conjunctions, are utterly false, and devoid of foundation. We have heard it affirmed by persons of education and attainment of no mean scientific order, that it is physically impossible for a union of man and beast to occur-at least due to sexual union, because a man's semen is hot and perversely pleasure in the sexual parts of an animal, and a beast can ejaculate his sperm into a disgusting human female, but that is as far as it goes-physically the seed dies sterile and wasted in the wrong receptacle. Any human monsters born of man are due to natural, if tragic causes, and not by the obnoxious sexual union between people and animals.
This is a fact, and anyone who believes otherwise is misinformed-or a fool.