Zoophilia Zoophile Meaning Definition

What Is The Meaning Or Definition Of Zoophilia / Zoophile / Zoosexual / Zoosexuality:

The term “zoophilia” is derived from “zoo,” which means “a public menagerie of animals,” and “philia,” which means “love,” hence, “zoo-philia” literally means “sexual attraction or interest in, or love for, animals.”

The term “zoophilia” or “zoophile” is used to describe people who primarily experience emotional and aesthetic attraction, but may also sometimes have romantic and sexual attraction towards non-human animals.

Zoosexuals have affection or affinity for animals in order to have a meaningful relationship with them, usually in a lusty or sexual way as it goes way beyond mere attraction or emotional attachment.

Most zoosexuals are strictly attracted to members of one specific specie, or to members of closely-related species, and most of zoosexuality is associated with sexual attraction toward mammals.

Zoosexuality or bestiality is a cross-species sexual engagement between human and non-human animals, it is mostly related to sexual activities that comes out of extreme attraction and extraordinary affection.

Zoophilia/zoophile and zoosexuality/bestiality are often used interchangeably, but there is a profound difference between them, zoophilia or zoophile is mere attraction, while zoosexuality or bestiality is acting on those attractions in a sexual way.

Zoophile is also sometimes spelled as zoophilie, zofilia, zoophillia, zoophila, zoophilla, zoophiles, zoophilie, zoophil, zoophelia, zoofila, zoophilic, but they all mean pretty much the same thing.

Bestiality is also sometimes spelled as beastality, beastility, beasteality, beasiality, but they all mean pretty much the same thing.

“Zoophilia” is also sometimes referred to as “Zoophil” in short, or “Zoophile” as a synonym, or “Zoo-Philia” with a hyphen, or “Zoo Philia” with a space, as some other forms