zoosexuality

English

Etymology

From zoosexual +‎ -ity. First attested in the 1980s.

Noun

zoosexuality (uncountable)

1. Zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
   • [2009, Monika Bakke, “Human-nonhuman libidinal relations”, in Tom Tyler, Manuela Rossini, editor, Animal Encounters, page 224:

     3. The term "zoosexuality", understood as sexual orientation towards animals, has been in use since the 1980s; it was popularized by Miletski's research in the 1990s.]

   • 2017, R.J. Maratea, Philip R. Kavanaugh, and Joshua Tafoya, “Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse”, in Routledge Handbook on Deviance:

     ZSB posters effectively suggest that zoosexuals are misunderstood outcasts who are demonized as deviant because most people lack the mental capacity to understand human-animal sexuality. This point is further crystallized when posters neutralize the deviance of zoosexuality by comparison to other alternative sexualities that have attained some measure of social acceptability.