...and most, most infamously, a man dies in Washington State after having sex with a horse.

The first reports about the death-by-horse didn't include the exact cause of death, and like many people, I assumed the man had been fatally kicked in the head when he attempted to mount the killer horse. This was not the case. The man died, a horrified world soon learned, of a perforated colon. A perforated colon could mean only one thing: The horse was the active partner and the dead man, a 45-year-old resident of Seattle, had literally been fucked to death.

After the news broke, hundreds of distressed Savage Love readers wrote in to ask me why anyone would want to be fucked by a horse, how that would work exactly, and how a perforated colon kills you. (A perforated colon leaks like Karl Rove on a bender, you see, which in this case led to a fatal case of acute peritonitis.) A few people wrote in to ask if the farm was still open for business. I was away when you needed me most, dear readers, drinking my way through Glasgow and Copenhagen when I should have been here, at Ann Landers' desk, comforting and consoling you. And by the time I returned to work this week, every angle of this story—the ethics, etiquette, and mechanics of getting fucked by a horse—had already been covered by Miss Manners, Garrison Keillor, and Bob Novak, so there's really nothing left for me to add.

Except this: The dead man videotaped the fatal encounter, a tape the police seized, reviewed, and apparently leaked, as the videotape is now on the Web. Of all the troubling aspects of this incident, it's the existence of this videotape that has me scratching my head. One would think that getting fucked in the ass by a horse would be an experience so memorable that you wouldn't need a videotape to recall it. ("Hey, remember that time you got fucked by a horse?" "No, I can't say that I do. Hand me that box of Depends, would you?") But the man made a video, and now it's out there for all to see, which is a tragedy for the dead man, his family, and the killer horse. (Don't write in and ask me for the link—unlike Bob Novak, there are some things I won't put in my column.)

MistressMissy said:
and WHY isn't beastiality a crime in washington? why are only 33 states smart when it comes to this?

[Edited on Jul 17, 2005 by MistressMissy]

Liante said:
Here's how he died: "acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon."

So yeah, you really shouldn't have sex with horses.

INITIATION TO KINGSHIP RITUAL

On this matter we probably have the best information of all the rituals existing in Celtic religion. However, these rituals seem to vary from place to place and in time. What is told to us about the inauguration ceremony in Ancient Gaul is that the king to be is lifted, standing on his shield, by his followers. The rituals connected to the kingship in Tara, however, require the king to be to sleep with the sovereignity godess (according to Giraldus Cambrensis who claims to have seen such a ceremony in Connacht this means the king makes sex with a white mare, which is slaughtered, its blood and flesh are put into a large vat in which the king to be bathes, which is then cooked and then eaten by the people who are at the ceremony) and has to fulfill a test by stepping onto the Lia Fail. In the kingdom of Dalriada the ceremony probaly included the king setting his foot into a "footprint" and some other ceremonies as well.

Ogdredx9q said:

But, if you're going to, you should be the top.

Cassiel said:
dude

how do you have sex with a chicken?