Calf and Other Loves
Wendy Doniger, 4 August 1994
Dearest Pet: On Bestiality
by Midas Dekkers, translated by Paul Vincent.
Verso, 208 pp., £18.95, June 1994,0 86091 462 3 Show More
by Midas Dekkers, translated by Paul Vincent.
Verso, 208 pp., £18.95, June 1994,
“... thoughtful and erudite, drawing skilfully on a vast array of historical and scientific literature. Dekkers was trained as a biologist but writes like a journalist, in a breezy style that is for the most part charming, occasionally annoying, and as the book progresses, troubling. The writing is so vivid and personal that it encourages us to imagine ourselves ... ”