Looks like Polly just scored herself a cracker. This goes beyond my wildest dreams! Want to mark a character as a sexual deviant, but confronted with the fact that Discredited tropes like Depraved Homosexual , Depraved Bisexual , and Psycho Lesbian are Pet-Peeve Tropes? Imply that they have a sexual interest in animals. Usually farm animals, since common pets still might be too squicky for some.
This is almost always played for laughs, rather than titillation. It works partly because actual bestiality is rare enough to seem less " real " than other acts considered perverted, similar to the unreality of cartoon violence — yet common enough that it's more plausible and seen as less gross by observers, it also doesn't have the same repulsive moral implications than necrophilia.
We don't normally worry about the animal, because of said unreality and our moral distance from animals. It helps that the animals in question are not anthropomorphized and are usually the more "comical" ones found in nature goats, sheep, chickens. You may get a couple of letters from PETA and a severe hoof-to-the-head concussion, but frankly, you should just expect that going in.
This trope also shows up in regional humour as a way to mock other regions. For example, in Britain , jokes of this sort especially regarding sheep commonly get levied at Wales and Scotland. Meanwhile in the Southern Hemisphere, Australians and New Zealanders like to accuse each other of excessive fondness for sheep. As you may have guessed, sheep farming makes up a big chunk of the economy in Wales, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, all of which have higher populations of sheep than humans.
Latin Americans get this a lot too, especially with regards to donkeys. Sometimes also alleged toward Bedouins and other groups who have long nights alone in the desert with no company except goats and camels.
