chennai stories about a group ofyoung boys having sex with buffaloes in rural south india upwardly mobile womentutoring dogs in intercourse and a group of frequent flyers travelling insearch of stallions tumbled out of doctors case sheets after usbased sextherapist hani miletski spoke about bestiality and zoophilia at the 26thnational conference of sexology being held in the citythe sessionhowever did not arrive at a conclusion whether bestiality which is punishableunder section 377 unnatural sex of the indian penal code was right or wrongin fact the session raised more questions than it answered yet everyoneagreed bestiality is not rare in india though it remains a provocative andcontroversial issuechennaibased sexologist dr narayana reddynarrated a case where six months ago a young couple from vellore had visitedhim the initial complaint was that the male had a problem oferectile dysfunction they were married for five years but they never had sexwhen i independently investigated i found that 29yearold man preferredbuffaloes as partners he had been having sex with female buffaloes for severalyears along with the boys in his age group he said in anothercase he said an upwardly mobile woman preferred to involve her pet dogwhenever her spouse wanted to have sexitscomplicated to give solutions for now we ask our clients what they are lookingfor on most occasions its an attempt to save the marriage and we helpthem reddy said there are however no studies indicatingstatistics on sexual activity with animals in the country but by practice mostsexologists say its high in the rural areas and among those living inclose proximity of livestock miletski who carried out a study onbestiality for a doctoral dissertation at the institute for advanced study ofhuman sexuality in san francisco said there were two classes of people havingsex with animals the bestialites and zoophiles