For example, one teenager came to us in the summer of 2022 when he was 17 years old and living in a lockdown facility because he had been sexually abusing dogs. He’d had an awful childhood: His mother was a drug addict, his father was imprisoned, and he grew up in foster care. Whatever treatment he may have been getting, it wasn’t working. During our intake I learned from another caseworker that when he got out, he planned to reoffend because he believed the dogs had willingly submitted.

Side note: as a society, we don't talk much about the escalation of porn. I don't know if a lot of people realize that most studies showing people moving into deviant porn end up escalating to child sexual abuse material and animal sexual abuse at the height. We talk a lot about the pedos and are pretty aware of how many people in society are pushing that boundary because the kids can talk and grow up, but we don't even want to have the conversation that there are just as many people viewing animals-as-sexual-object propaganda. I don't know how many people view extreme porn and then try to recreate it, but it's definitely a non-zero number.