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U.S. laws on bestiality

Laws and regulations regarding bestiality in the United States, including federal and state-level legislation

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Jan 21, 2026

How have civil-commitment laws varied across U.S. states and what reforms would be required to expand involuntary hospitalization?

in the is a patchwork: states set their own standards for emergency holds, inpatient commitment, and outpatient assisted treatment, leading to wide variation in thresholds (dangerousness, imminence, "...

Jan 10, 2026

Which U.S. states still lacked explicit bestiality statutes as of 2023 and what legislative changes closed those gaps?

By the end of 2023, the national patchwork that once left several U.S. jurisdictions without explicit criminal statutes against sexual conduct with animals had been largely closed: reporting from the ...