The male slaves on the farm have intercourse with cows mainly because they have no prospect of sleeping with a woman. Subverted in Reaper Man, in which the prospect of Ludmilla (a werewolf) finding collectively with Lupine (a wereman) is taken care of as a completely-suitable Interspecies Romance, irrespective of him remaining a ordinary wolf and her, a standard human, most of the month.
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