Just within the last month, a First Information Report was filed against eight men for gang-raping a pregnant goat to death in Haryana, and a man from West Bengal was arrested under Section 377 for dragging a stray dog into his house and raping the animal. That is why PETA India has requested that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Union Ministry of Law & Justice to retain the criminalisation of bestiality under Section 377 while amending the current wording to decriminalise sexual acts between same-sex human partners and between other consenting adults. For if we fail to protect animals from abuse, we will also fail to protect humans. Section 377, however, while being understood to criminalise same-sex sexual relationships, also makes bestiality-the sexual assault of an animal by a human being-a punishable offence, which is a vital animal-protection measure that we must retain.
The debate surrounding Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which makes it illegal to have intercourse "against the order of nature", has rightly forced the nation to consider the sexual human rights of consenting adults. (A man having intercourse with a horse, pictured on the exterior of a temple in Khajuraho Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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