User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 331: Natsu's Strategy, Review./@comment-203.87.139.100-20130519120508/@comment-7418318-20130519161303

The reason why Zirconis stripped Lucy was just that he doesn't like to eat the cloth. For him Humans are just food-stock and thus nothing to get sexually excited over.

Would you call Humans perverts because they skin animals before they cook and eat them?

Granted the animals are already dead when that happens, but that at most shows that he doesn't care about the pain he inflicts to his food, not that he's perverted.

That he just tossed Lucy away after being hurt a little by Wendy shows just how little regard he has for Lucy. For him she's a snack and nothing more.