{"product_id":"dearest-pet","title":"Dearest Pet","description":"\"People love animals-a stroke here, a pat there, a quick nuzzle in that  gorgeous fur . the amount of cuddling they get can make you jealous. In  Holland, dogs are caressed more than people. Not as thoroughly, though:  that one spot, somewhere down below, generally remains untouched .\"  Generally, but certainly not always. Kinsey's research showed that 8  per cent of men and 3.5 per cent of women had had sex with an animal,  and that in rural areas the figure for men was closer to 50 per cent.  Yet bestiality is almost universally condemned. While our love for  animals is extolled as noble and \"natural,\" all erotic elements in the  relationship between humans and other species are vilified and  proscribed, thus consigning them to the realm of exotic pornography or  crude innuendo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven so, something remains of physical love for  animals. In different forms, sublimated or occasionally celebrated, its  traces can be found throughout art and popular culture: in Leda and the  Swan, Beauty and the Beast or the Lorelei; in a lubricious menagerie of  satyrs and centaurs, wolfmen and vampires, all the way through to King  Kong and Fritz the Cat, pony clubs and amorous dolphins, or even  advertisements for luxury catfoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDearest Pet\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers  and explores those traces, illuminating the ambivalence of human  attitudes to cross-species sexuality. Its author, the biologist and  broadcaster Midas Dekkers, has analysed bestiality in all its  aspects-physical, psychological and legal-and examined its  representations in religion and mythology, art and literature,  pornography and advertising. Beautifully-and sometimes  bizarrely-illustrated, his book is neither drily academic nor pruriently  trivial, but erudite, witty and challenging: the first history of the  last taboo. A book for animal lovers, and for those who are just their  good friends.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263131079000,"sku":"9781859843109","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781859843109_0bbf7947-8d99-48c1-9ce7-e1fff52ef6f2.jpg?v=1777883426","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dearest-pet","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}