Chinese lovers - in pre-Mao days - were said to be fond of fowl. Mantegazza has remarked
that "The Chinese
are famous for their love affairs with geese ..." This would be remarkable enough: the actual
way the Orientals
used such a creature for sexual purposes is even more extraordinary. At the moment of
ejaculation the man would
pull the head off the live animal to get "the pleasurable benefit of the anal sphincter's last
spasms in the victim."
De Sade has commented that a turkey was used in the same way in Parisian brothels, where
the act was termed
avisodomy. As well as causing desirable anal spasms in the poor bird, its body temperature
was thought to rise
as a consequence of losing a head, thus giving further titillation. Of a number of famous
practitioners of this form
of bestiality, one was Tipoo Sahib, the Sultan and "Tiger" of Mysore, the scourge of the
British.