Legality of bestiality by country or territory 

concerns the laws governing humans performing sex

acts with non-human animals. Laws against humans performing sex acts on animals, where
they exist, are concerned with the actual act, which it commonly refers to as bestiality, rather
than the sexual attraction to animals. For this reason, prohibitions of zoophilic pornography
are more varied; they may be unlawful if an actual sex act with an animal is involved, but the
status is not clear-cut if there is a mere representation, such as a painting or cartoon. In that
case, normal obscenity laws will normally apply. All zoophilic imagery is widely regarded
as pornography. Prohibitions without specific bestiality statutes[edit]
Some countries have a range of laws on their books. Sometimes sodomy laws or "crime against
nature" laws are used to prosecute people who have sex with animals.
In the case of Kenneth Pinyan, who died from injuries sustained from receiving anal sex from a
horse, local law enforcement found that there were no laws that allowed them to prosecute his
friend, who had filmed the event and also allowed himself to be sodomized by the horse. The friend
was prosecuted for trespassing. That case prompted the Washington State legislature to draw up
legislation outlawing sex with animals.[6]
In a 2005 Florida case, a man who had sex with his dog was charged with disorderly conduct, since
the state had no anti-bestiality laws on the books at the time. [7] On 1 October 2011, the state of
Florida State Law 828.126, F.S went into effect, banning sex with animals. [8]

Laws against sex with animals