# Can you rape an animal?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 20, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069 "2005-06-20T16:34:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/41 "2005-06-21T20:43:38Z")
Oh man, I’m spinning widly between disgust at the act and laughing out loud at the rhymes you guys are writing…lol.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/42 "2005-06-21T20:52:19Z")
I could not would not with a croc,
nor would I give its ass a “shock.”
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/43 "2005-06-21T22:06:10Z")
> [@CateAyo](#):
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> As this is IMHO and all, I will suggest that to call this rape, even as depraved as it is, is to minimize the experience of the women (and even the men) that have been raped. It would be a stretch to imagine that animals would sense the powerlessness and degradation in the same sense that a human victim would.
Why say “and even” ?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/44 "2005-06-21T22:46:32Z")
I would not could not with an okapi
…uh…
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### Author:  [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/45 "2005-06-22T00:39:07Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#):
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> Why say “and even” ?
Good point. While it isn’t very well stated, I meant to imply that people don’t generally consider men as potential victims. Were we vicitimized, I don’t know that there would be less emotional impact.
My apologies for putting it badly, and thank you for asking for clarification.
H
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/46 "2005-06-22T01:18:17Z")
One time I stuck it in a rhino
What was I thinking? Hell-if-I-know
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### Author:  [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/47 "2005-06-22T01:39:08Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> I would not could not with an okapi
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> …uh…
Even though it’d make me very happy.
:dubious: ?
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/48 "2005-06-22T02:12:14Z")
Man, he really screwed the pooch on that one.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/49 "2005-06-22T02:31:56Z")
“Rape?” Well, :dubious:
But certainly a horrible thing to do, especially as our Perp also raped two kids. What’s so funny about killing a dog and child raping? :mad:
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/50 "2005-06-22T04:18:28Z")
> [@DougC](#):
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> - Well now---- to put it lightly, male animals are pretty-much always ready, and anyone who’s ever lived on a farm and kept different species of animals penned together has seen that female animals are ready for anybody whenever they’re in heat, as long as you’ve got anything-close to the right moves and your equipment is the right size.
True enough. All I meant is that they can’t really comprehend what’s going on.
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/51 "2005-06-22T06:47:15Z")
I would not, could not, with a goat, in the back or in his throat.
These are hard to make.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/52 "2005-06-22T08:35:58Z")
Someone forgot to tell him to love his dog, but don’t _love_ his dog.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/53 "2005-06-22T10:42:56Z")
I would not Do It with a cow
(I cannot quite imagine how :eek: )
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### Author:  [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/54 "2005-06-22T13:18:52Z")
I once tried it with an ocelot…
four-hundred stitches cost a lot.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/55 "2005-06-22T15:01:28Z")
> [@CateAyo](#):
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> My apologies for putting it badly, and thank you for asking for clarification.
Thanks I was sure you couldn’t have meant what it sounded like you might have meant, but thought a clarrification would be useful nonetheless.
Though rape is perhapse a term that should be reserved for Human interactions, there seems to be the possibility that some beastial activity may occur without trauma to the animal which may be considered a lesser offence to that which causes suffering and or death to the animal. The first though disgusting cannot I think be considered a criminal act if the animal belongs to the perpetrator, the second is obviously animal cruelty. If the animal does not belong to the bestial person there should be some other criminal charge associated.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/56 "2005-06-22T18:21:21Z")
One time I started with an otter…
…but ended in the police blotter.
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/57 "2005-06-22T19:13:31Z")
I fantasized about a marmot,
but when he saw me, I alarmed it.
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/58 "2005-06-22T22:12:59Z")
I would not could not with an antelope
For fear I would get mocked at the Dope
I would not could not with a pig
I do not have a curly thingamajig
I would not could not with a snake
For sexual excitement I would have to fake
I once wanted to bang a chimp
But I had no money to pay his pimp
I would not could not with an owl
To do so would be an act most fowl
I once tried it with a seal
But it made me feel like a heel
I once tried it with a wombat
I ended up like Mortal Kombat
It is confusing, this sex with other species
I think I’ll stick to sex with he-shes
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/59 "2005-06-22T23:32:01Z")
Bind mice with duct tape {several wraps}
Lest they unseam from nave to chaps.
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### Author:  [@lost\_in\_cyberspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost_in_cyberspace)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-rape-an-animal/309069/60 "2005-06-26T18:33:47Z")
This totally shocked me, to see all the bad jokes and bad songs about it shocked me even more … wow
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