Zoosadism
Zoosadism is sexual pleasure derived from cruelty to animals.[1] It is a paraphilia, where zoosadists are sexually aroused by pain inflicted on animals.
Legal status
1999
In 1999, the United States Congress enacted a statute affecting the legality of crush films which criminalized the creation, sale, and possession of depictions of animal cruelty, though with an exception for "any depiction that has serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value."[2]
2008
In 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit invalidated the ban on the sale and possession of such films (if not otherwise obscene) as a violation of the Constitution's guarantee for freedom of speech.[3] The United States Supreme Court affirmed the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Stevens, finding the law unconstitutional because the law was so broad and vague that it included any portrayal of an animal in or being harmed such as by hunting or disease.[4]
2010
On November 28, 2010, bill H.R. 5566, which prohibits interstate commerce in animal crush films, was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, and on December 9, the bill was signed by President Obama becoming the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010.
2015
On September 8, 2015, a Houston woman pleaded guilty in the nation's first federal animal crush video case.[5][6]
2019
On November 25, 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law the PACT ACT, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act,[7] which authorized the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to prosecute malicious animal cruelty.[8] The PACT act defines animal crushing as when "one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury."[9]
References
- ↑ https://dictionary.apa.org/
- ↑ http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000048----000-.html
- ↑ http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/united-states-v-stevens-protecting-animals-is-not-a-reason-to-amputate-part-of-the-first-amendment/ United States v. Stevens - Protecting Animals no Justification for First Amendment Amputation], The Legal Satyricon, 20-07-2008
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21scotus.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/houston-woman-convicted-animal-crush-fetish-porn-videos
- ↑ https://www.fbi.gov/houston/press-releases/2015/houston-woman-convicted-of-producing-and-distributing-animal-crush-videos
- ↑ https://www.congress.gov/116/plaws/publ72/PLAW-116publ72.pdf
- ↑ https://animalwellnessaction.org/2019/11/25/congress-and-president-say-cruelty-is-abhorrent-illegal/
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/26/trump-signs-preventing-animal-cruelty-torture-act/4306002002/