I wasn’t thinking it was homophobic, but maybe racially motivated or just some sort of idea that Africans are savages.
I seem to remember that herpes in humans was thought to be started from contracting bovine herpes from cows. Either sex with cows or just communicating it from the cow to human through touch. I have no idea if that is how humans first contracted herpes. I do know bovine heroes is a real thing.
When I here stuff like that, these stories of supposed beastiality I just dismiss it in my mind that men can be twisted and awful. LOL. Not that I think most men do things like that, I just mean if someone is going to some sort of twisted thing that I would even consider criminal it is more likely to be a man than a woman.
I don’t relate it to homosexuality at all, but I can see why some people might or why gay people might worry that is what is implied. Just like when the Priests were under fire for pedophilia and tons of people related that to being gay. I was so disgusted by people thinking that way. What does wanting to be sexually intimate with a man have to do with raping and molesting children?
I guess sme people group all “deviant” behavior together. I use deviant as outside the statistical norm, I wish I had a better word, I hope it is understood what I mean and that doesn’t offend anyone. I actually wouldn’t call homosexuality deviant myself, I would not use that word, but people who are homophobic probably think of homosexuality, pedophilia, and beastiality all as simply not being normal to them. Especially if they mix a whole bunch of religion fire and brimstone in.