Chapter IX 



SODOMY AND SADISM 



Injuries to the Genital and Neighboring Organs of 

 Animals by Sexually Psychopathic Men 



It is of fundamental importance that veterinarians shall 

 have in mind the extremely variable injuries which may be 

 caused to animals by sexual perverts. Failure to diagnose 

 these injuries has been the common lot of veterinary prac- 

 titioners. The errors in the diagnosis of such injuries mis- 

 lead the public, tend to cause a repetition of the acts upon 

 other animals, and result in extensive losses to owners, be- 

 cause under the shadow of error the culprit is not detected, 

 nor is any intelligent effort made at detection. Finally, the 

 error is deeply humiliating to the erring veterinarian. 



Veterinary literature is very poor in this field. The prin- 

 cipal contributors to our knowledge have been Guillebeau^ 

 Cadiot^, and Eggimann^. The following includes the more 

 important portions of the contribution of Guillebeau. 



The injuries may be placed under two headings — sodomy 

 and sadism. Sodomy, or carnal intercourse between man 

 and the lower animals, while highly repulsive to moral stand- 

 ards and in sharp conflict with statutory laws, is generally 

 of but scant interest to veterinarians, as Guillebeau points 

 out, because no physical injury follows in the large domestic 

 animals and the specific venereal infections of man are not 

 transmissible to animals. 



Guillebeau relates that in a remote suburb several neigh- 

 bors, upon separate mornings, each found a dead hen which 

 had been left apparently well the evening before. The 

 fourth hen was presented for autopsy. 



' Ueber Verletzungen der Haustiere durch sexuellpsycopathic Menschen. 

 Von Alfred Guillebeau in Bern. Schweizer Archiv. fiir Tierheilkunde. 

 XLI Band, 1899,. page i. 



2 Cadiot, P. J. Bulletin d. 1. Soc. Centr. de Med. V^t. vol. 50, page 257. 



' Eggiman, F., Schweizer Archiv. f. Tierheilkunde. Band 35 (1893) 

 page 103. 



