Talk:Human–animal marriage

message: What about a relationship or marriage to an alien (an intelligent non-human)? There are obviosly no examples f it happening, but some light should be shared on the subject. T.Neo (talk) 21:03, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about examples of extraterrestrial watchmakers, or perhaps, even examples of extraterrestrials who enjoy lacrosse?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.134.193 (talk) 18:24, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

text: And I've removed them. This is nothing more than a grab-bag of gee-whiz borderline shock trivia. A serious article can be built from the serious sources listed at the AfD discussion -- see next section here. EEng 15:30, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

text: To be clear, I was convinced during AfD that the topic is absolutely notable. But WP:TNT applies to the article as it was. EEng 20:56, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: There is a related discussion going on at User_talk:RoySmith#Human.E2.80.93animal_marriage -- RoySmith (talk) 11:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: Thanks to , the page is now beginning to look like an encyclopedia article. One last reminder re the sources listed at AfD (linked below). EEng 13:55, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Good progress

message: *See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Human–animal_marriage for good potential sources. EEng 02:16, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: Thank you to those who have been working on this article. I may also contribute to it at some point when my schedule better permits.
One point that I have read that may likely be borne out by sources, although it will be of course necessary to find a source to cite: It's my understanding that in Western culture, human-animal marriage is regarded as more of a freakish thing because it is automatically associated with sex/ bestiality.  In Eastern culture, it is not necessarily regarded in the same light.  For example in some cultures people can supposedly marry their spirit animals and it is seen in a spiritual rather than a sexual context. Like I said this needs some good sources before it can be added to the article so I am not adding it now until such sources are found, but it's my understanding there are some sources that likely support (if I find one I will add) - and it may also be a reason why this article looked to some Western eyes like a "tabloid topic". TheBlinkster (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: So since the article lacks a lot of facts and sources, I was thinking it might be appropriate to add examples from folklore and myths. There are plenty of sources on this perticular topic, so why not add some depth?
- Marriage to a horse in The Silkworm URL: https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/174
- The Cheyenne story, "The Girl Who Married a dog. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/815804.pdf
- Irish legend of the king who married a horse. URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=mRRQJZSHEZwC&pg=PT115&lpg=PT115&dq=mythological+king+in+Donegal+is+said+to+have+married+a+horse&source=bl&ots=kPRazrwHsz&sig=6vOwZsoKZKIfaTEAgQkca-ZCPUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTse_Uy4bSAhUJa7wKHTaeAaUQ6AEIJTAC#v=onepage&q=MARRIAGE&f=false  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lisfry (talk • contribs) 22:44, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding examples from folklore