I once smoked a bowl with my dealer, who was a weird and lonely man. He took our conversation on very odd tangent about dolphin love and consensual dolphin sex and what qualifies as dolphin rape. I never called him again.

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but as a Wiccan I have to. This man does not represent our views of sex. He broke our only rule: an' it harm none. Since animals can't consent (and they can't anymore than children can), it harms them and because of the taboo it harms him psychologically too. If a dog humps…

If "she appeared to consent and didn't flee" were valid excuses, we wouldn't have statutory rape. But just like when a 30-year-old man has sex with a 15-year-old girl who says she wants it, we consider it to be wrong, to be rape, because they aren't on the same mental level. She's not mature enough for the law to be…

you are exactly right. rape is terrible no matter who it is being done to: female, male, non-human animal...

actually, I am not. the overwhelming scientific, peer-reviewed evidence we have right now says that animals cannot consent. until the data suggests otherwise, this is a truth. this is the vaccine debate: one or two people say "untrue!" without any real basis and bam.

oh yeah totally no worries dude I get it.

Jia, I never did follow you. You're a hack playing at journalism. From making an ass out of yourself in the comments of your piece wherein you defend Lena Dunham's molestation of her sister to poorly done interviews with dolphin fuckers, the only thing you do well is embarrass yourself. You couldn't write a fucking…

Jia, I never did follow you. You're a hack playing at journalism. From making an ass out of yourself in the comments of your piece wherein you defend Lena Dunham's molestation of her sister to poorly done interviews with dolphin fuckers, the only thing you do well is embarrass yourself. You couldn't write a fucking…

Would you exercise the same compassion and thoughtful understanding to someone who, because of the exact same childhood experiences as Brenner, was sexually attracted to small children, or the elderly and enfeebled? If so, you're still an unapologetic opportunist, but at least you know what you are.

I get that a big part of your job here is to drive traffic and obviously a story like this will accomplish that. But to make light of a core value of a lot of the readership here—-that sexual consent must be explicit and unequivocal—-in order to drive traffic is really gross. I think the readership deserves better.

On top of that, this man states that he has or has had sex with dogs. There's absolutely no way to rationalize that.

animals mate with their own species for procreation, and by and large those species have communication systems we don't/cannot understand. who's to say they don't give "consent"?

You are very welcome.

The issue is a species with far superior intellectual abilities (humans) deriving sexual pleasure from beings who even at their smartest will never be on par with an adult human, even an adult human of below average cognitive ability. There will always be an inherent imbalance of power because of that. For me that…

couldn't a woman run away from a rapist much the same way a dolphin swims away?

Yeah, that's the "why didn't you bite his dick off?" of animal rape quotes. Way to take a page out of the Don Lemon's Journalism For Dummies book, Jia.

Yeah, it really bothers me that he's the "guy who had sex with a dolphin" and not "guy who abused a dolphin"

Everyone knows that he is mentally unwell but no one wants to state that he did not have a "romantic" relationship with an animal and while he did have a sexual relationship with an animal there is no consent because there cannot be consent.

I just ...I just...words escape me in the face of how ridiculous that statement is

OH BOY. I was all . . . well, if it's consensual, I'm not gonna judge! And then: