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Permalink Reply by Galen on July 15, 2011 at 6:44am

Sex between 2 dogs would not even enter the equation.  We do not hold non-sentient life forms to our standards.  Rape and pedophilia also occur in the aniimal kingdom, but we don't attempt to throw those animals into jail for it.  Consent is not an issue among lower caste animals.

 

Humans, on the other hand, are intelligent and self-aware.  We have the capacity to formulate morals/ethics and know that our actions are wrong based on those morals/ethics (unlike animals).  Animals are not held to any behavioral standards, while we humans are.  As such, interspecies sex could only be considered ethical if it were held between members of two different sentient/sapient species.  Since we are the only such species that we're aware of, it would therefore not be possible at this time.

 

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on July 15, 2011 at 7:40am

Forget interspecies sex, we've already done the inter-kingdom horizontal gene transfer mamba! 

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on July 17, 2011 at 2:32am

Well put, This is essentially what I was trying to say.

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Permalink Reply by erik112358 on July 15, 2011 at 1:22pm

I don't think the author had breeding in mind so much as plain old sex.

Regarding the extra-terrestrial sex... There's no reason to assume extra-terrestrials would have the same outlook on sex that we do. Maybe they don't even have "sex" in the way that we know it.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on July 15, 2011 at 6:44pm

If they turn out to have tentacles, plenty of Japanese will love that

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on July 17, 2011 at 2:40am

implying that somehow humans would start interbreeding with animals

I was actually thinking more along the lines of other beings who are intelligent enough to understand what sex is to us and feel so inclined to lend a hand/claw/tentacle/whatever. Whether it is morally fine/not fine/weird/whatever... ok weird is basically a given at the moment.

 

I am aware of the genetic incompatibilites, although at a far more basic level than your explanation.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Foley on July 15, 2011 at 11:47pm

This makes me think of Kiff (Kip?) from Futurama.

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Permalink Reply by Phoenix LeBlanc on July 15, 2011 at 8:08pm

I love how your reply is educational and for lack of a better word "Mature" I really enjoyed reading it.  Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Jewelz on July 16, 2011 at 3:21am

Clearly you've never seen a female cat hump a female dog.

 

Other species really don't seem to care if they're able to reproduce with each other or not. They're willing to give it a shot.

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on July 17, 2011 at 2:41am

I've seen it the other way around....couldn't help but laugh.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Wood on July 15, 2011 at 11:01am

I've found from growing up in New Hamsha that getting the goat to consent is very difficult.

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Permalink Reply by Kelin420 on July 16, 2011 at 5:02am

 "Get it near a cliff so it has to back up...."

 

A guy from (insert local sheep shagging state/nation/area here- Montana, New Foundland, Wales, New Zealand,) told me that.

Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous...

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