Perhaps our only hope is that South Park gets ahold of this trend and beats it to a comical death.
Richard Hooper, deputy chairman of Ofcom (the UK's TV and radio regulating body), has indicated that the long-anticipated new broadcasting code makes no definite provisions against the broadcasting of so-called 'challenging material' on public air-waves, including shows which deal with sex with animals, so long as it is in the proper 'context'.
“A programme about sex with animals? Yes, it's potentially possible,” said Ofcom deputy chairman, Richard Hooper. “It all comes down to context.” Mr. Hooper may have been thinking of a channel 4 documentary on bestiality, Animal Passions, which was aired last year. According to a Media Guardian article that particular documentary received seventy-five complaints at the time, from viewers who were concerned that it “normalized bestiality”.
Divorce, abortion, homosexuality. Now beastiality. Nothing is surprising any more. What's a surprise is that we were able to thwart the drive of NAMBLA and others to normalize sex with children. For that, we probably owe a debt of gratitude to a handful of deviant Catholic priests and, more important, the Catholic-loathing press that publicized their crimes and refused to downplay them for the sake of not hindering the sexual revolution.
