In my opinion, seeing juxtapositions of large vicious animals with pretty petite women can be quite a turn on. Cute women hanging out with big slobbery beasts, makes them sexier by contrast.
My best friend believes that is a form of beastiality, however. I dunno. Last night, I opened up a discussion about this topic on Facebook. It did not end well, though. My friend count dropped.
I don’t think my fetish is uncommon. You see many examples in pop culture of animals being used as sexual props. Just because something is a prop doesn’t mean you want to have sexual relations with it. The prop is merely a means to an end.
To see a good example, google Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater”. In this racy video, she loses her dog at the beginning and finds it at the end. The pitbull is big black and masculine, and sex goddess Nelly Furtado is cute and feminine.
The reverse can be true too. Big masculine men with small cuddly animals can be sexy too, I assume. There’s a book called “Hot Guys and Cute Chicks”.
If you’re just talking about posing near big, vicious animals, then I don’t think it counts as bestiality - it isn’t any more squicky than people who like women posing with fast cars or posing with big guns or posing with attractive vegetables.
Wait, did I say that out loud?
However, I can see the connection for thinking so. If the animal is part of the allure, that you wouldn’t be turned on without the animal being there, then that starts to hint that you’re more interested in the animal than the woman.
What about T-rexes and hot babes? You can’t just throw species separated by 65 million years of evolution and have the slightest idea as to whether or not you’ll get a raging boner.