Biology of Beastiality

I'm sorry. But I can't help myself. Here's another dispatch from the front lines of the War on Animals:

A Perth Amboy man has been charged with six counts of animal cruelty for sodomizing his neighbor's dog several times over the past year.

Jose Rodriguez, 39, who lives on State Street, was caught by Perth Amboy police with his pants down, straddling the dog last month after her owner, Maritza Rosario, called for help.

Rosario had obtained a court order in the city municipal court, barring Rodriguez from her property after she caught him sodomizing the 5-year-old female Rottweiler, named Precious, in her back yard. […]

Rhodes said the dog was taken to an animal hospital on Dec. 21 and examined by a veterinarian who found the dog was in fact sodomized, resulting in swelling in the area and such severe pain the dog had trouble walking.

While sodomizing a Rottweiler isn't always a bad thing, I think in this case it seems a little creepy.

Here's something to consider: mammals (like all sexually reproducing organisms) have evolved mating strategies that involve discriminating selection behaviors. Both male and female humans, for example, have biologically encoded preferences which they call upon to select mates based on their reproductive fitness (i.e.; ability to provide for offspring, to pass on resilient and productive genes, etc.). However, technological advances have propelled humankind along a trajectory that has far surpassed the ability of biological evolution to keep pace. The result is that we have essentially transplanted our stone-age brains directly into the 21st century. The genetic brain chemistry of cave dwellers evolved over millennia to assist our forbearers in surviving in a brutal and challenging world – one in which such survival depended upon choosing mates that possessed certain obvious physical characteristics (rather than qualities of character or nuances of intellect). And so, against our better judgment, we often give physical beauty & brute strength priority when seeking mates. Yet our population has grown exponentially over the last few thousand years – and such growth shows no sign of abating. Our genetically encoded reproductive strategies are therefore woefully out of sync with the realities of modern life. To be blunt: Jose Rodriguez is probably ugly as sin, and was only humping Precious because the ladies were being precious with their sexual gifts. Please ladies…throw a dog a bone once in awhile.

ADDENDUM: The war continues.