As far as excuses for looking at kiddie porn and animal porn go, my favourite used to be that it was for “research purposes.” However, we’ve got a new winner thanks 67-year-old Robert Sibley.

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The York man was arrested for possession of accessing and possessing illegal sexual images involving animals and child abuse, but his defence claim that Robert only had them to aid him solving his erectile disfunction problems. Sure. The fact he had 146,000 pornographic images on his computer kind of suggests this might have been the case, but when 127 of them involve animal porn and child porn, you might think he was into some other dodgy shit as well.

Here’s what his defence had to say at York Crown Court:

He has suffered from erectile problems for a considerable period of time, and started looking for legal pornographic images in order to try and combat that [condition] in some way. In essence he started seeking out more extreme material to see if it would have a reaction upon him. He is insistent that it did not.

He said he initially used Viagra but found it expensive.

Well, it probably was to be fair. Not really sure looking at animal or kiddie porn to see if you get a boner from it is a particularly wise course of action though, as you’re probably only going to look for more if it does, so it’s a bit of a slippery slope. But the courts didn’t seem too bothered, sentencing him to a one year jail term, suspended for two years. They have banned him from using the internet and forced him to sign the Sex Offender’s register too.

It’s kind of weird how so much messed up sex shit is going on up in the north amongst old people. Check out this guy who got let off having a stash of octopus porn too.