About ten years ago, Peter Singer praised a pornographic book about bestiality, and he was widely condemned. Now, a new novel is out that contains graphic depictions of sexual intercourse between a woman and a chimpanzee, and it is receiving positive reviews in mainstream newspapers. This is a disturbing sign of the continuing slip-sliding away of our culture, and a subversive assault on human exceptionalism.
Details and analysis—but no graphic quotes—over at Secondhand Smoke .
