What makes YOU a zoo?

[silverwolf1]

We all know, and have argued (debated, whatever), the definitions of what we believe makes Joe Smith from Anywhere a Zoophile. I want to take a different tack on this. What do you believe makes YOU personally a Zoo? What is YOUR requirement to met before you feel you are truly in a zoophilic relationship? Is searching for such a relationship even necessary to YOU?




My own answers:




What makes me a zoo: For years I fought the label actually. Ebon had to shove it down my throat. Anyway, Being attracted to an individual of another species is what I believe makes me a "Zoo", and that's all that does.




My requirements to be met in a Zoophilic relationship: Full commitment to my partner first and foremost.  Safety, security, financial well-being & housing all well provided for (odd in a relationship, but important in a zoophilic one). An emotional understanding by me of my animal partners natural behaviors & that I cannot expect the same commitments from her. Understanding I am human, she is not in other words. Making these commitments because I am human.




Is searching for such a relationship even necessary: Yes, because I'm human, and that's what humans do. Being a "zoo" only means I love another species, not that I've stopped being my own.




 




You'll note I've not discussed sex in the above. Sex with my partners didn't make me "zoo" only a Bestialist, though I had requirements in my "zoo" relationships there too. Monogomy being the biggest.




Again, these aren't things I think others must do to be "zoo", just what I felt made me such. I'll be interested to read others replies. 




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