zoophilian.
/ˌzuː(ə)ˈfɪlɪə/, /ˌzəʊəˈfɪlɪə/, U.S. /ˌzu(ə)ˈfɪljə/, /ˌzoʊ(ə)ˈfɪljə/, /ˌzu(ə)ˈfɪliə/, /ˌzoʊ(ə)ˈfɪliə/ Originally Psychology and Psychiatry.
1. Emotional attachment to, or love of, animals; opposition to cruelty to animals; (in early use) esp. concern for the welfare of animals which is considered abnormal or obsessive.
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1894 H. M. Bannister tr. E. Régis Pract. Man. Mental Med. viii. 274 The obsession reveals itself here either by a dread of certain animals (zoophobia), or by the impossibility of seeing them suffer in any way (zoophilia [Fr. zoophilie], antivivisectionists of Magnan).
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Aug. 474/1 The imaginary ‘vivisector’ whom the victims of the obsession of zoophilia are so fond of holding up to popular hatred.
1972 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 116 159/2 The concern is frequently so extreme and so distorted that the end result is kind of misanthropic zoophilia.
2000 Yale Law Jrnl. 110 535 Hitler's zoophilia, and Nazi environmentalism more generally, were connected with a hostility to ‘cosmopolitan’ intellect.
2. Sexual desire aroused by or directed towards animals; (in later use also) sexual activity with animals.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > bestiality and zoophilia
buggery1533
beastliness1576
bestiality1576
bestialism1865
zoophilia1906
1906 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex V. 71 There is..the more or less sexual pleasure sometimes experienced..in the sight of copulating animals. This I would propose to call Mixoscopic Zoophilia; it falls within the range of normal variations.
1908 E. Paul tr. I. Bloch Sexual Life of our Time xxiii. 641 We will first describe zoophilia, a sexual inclination towards animals without actual sexual intercourse.
1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 558/2 Zoöphilia..is a term coined by Krafft-Ebing to denote sexual excitement caused by the stroking and fondling of animals. It does not refer to sexual intercourse with animals.
1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes iii. 65 The extent to which zoophilia involving monkeys was actually practised is difficult to assess.
1978 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 16 One of your contemporaries referred in its review to the ‘zoophilia’ in this film. A simpler word is animalism or bestiality.
2007 GQ (U.K. ed.) Apr. 205/3 I am not for a moment attempting to equate homosexuality with zoophilia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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