Reply #8: In my maternal culture,

[okasha]

everyone identifies with, or has a special relationship with, a non-human being--four-foot, winged, creeping, standing, stone. It doesn't have anything essential to do with sexuality, though, and it certainly isn't transgressive.

I suspect that what some people in contemporary majority culture are discovering is a similar link, but they don't have a cultural framework that normalizes it. They wind up relating it to urban phenomena like manga instead of to the natural world. A basic course in Shamanism 101 might be helpful all around.