This thread is now about Furries, for some reason. Formerly: "So. Anonymous."

[Elder Iptuous]

I didn't address this because personally I think anyone who has sex with an animal is just disgusting.  It is a kind of abuse.  There is no animal on this planet that has the mental capacity or verbal ability to come up to a human being and say "fuck me".  There are reasons why some of the old laws about single men owning certain farm animals are still on the books.....

I saw a video of a donkey 'raping' some guy..... (not successfully, the guy was clothed)
I've heard stories about dolphins 'raping' people (apart from the 'King of the Hill' episode)
there's bestiality porn out there of women and animals (like dogs) and they definitelyl aren't forcing the animal.....

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've never cared what anyone did as/with/to consenting adults in the privacy of their own place of choice.  PRIVATE being the key word.  I don't "get" the whole furry thing, then again, I don't "get" the S&M thing either.  

I have to agree, if people are dressing up as Pooh or other children's characters, there are probably some "issues" there that need to be dealt with, however, if they're just doing their thing in a run of the mill forest creature costume, then let them go for it.  It's not my place to decide if someone is whacked out cause they like to get it on in a costume.  Though I have to think those damn costumes have to be really really hot and super sweaty and must be a fortuen to clean to keep them from stinking and that to me is just EWWW!

As for the art, I don't understand half of the art in the world.  I mean they make sculpture from milk cartons and it's art.  Someone glues a bunch of buttons to a lamp and it's art.  It doesn't work for me.

What Suu and Fred draw, that is art.  The clothes Suu creates, that to me is art.  Nigel's beads, those are art.  For me art is an expression of creativity.  I may or may not like it, but I only have to buy or look at what I like right?

Just don't shove  the furry thing, or the furry 'art' or anything like that in my face and I won't be a total bitch about how much I hate it and what a load of crap it is....  That's fair right?

I actually think it's pretty obnoxious for anyone to present their sexual practices and expect not to be made fun of. I mean, come on.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I didn't address this because personally I think anyone who has sex with an animal is just disgusting.  It is a kind of abuse.  There is no animal on this planet that has the mental capacity or verbal ability to come up to a human being and say "fuck me".  There are reasons why some of the old laws about single men owning certain farm animals are still on the books.....

I saw a video of a donkey 'raping' some guy..... (not successfully, the guy was clothed)
I've heard stories about dolphins 'raping' people (apart from the 'King of the Hill' episode)
there's bestiality porn out there of women and animals (like dogs) and they definitelyl aren't forcing the animal.....

Some guy was raped to death by a dolphin last year, actually.

I LOLed.

[Elder Iptuous]

whoa! seriously?!
I thought it was more of a 'bump up against you with their pecker sticking out' kinda thing.  Raped to death?
Link-o perhaps?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just did a cursory search and didn't find it.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

In their 2007 survey, Gerbasi et al examined what it meant to be a furry, and in doing so proposed a topology in which to categorise different "types" of furries. The largest group, at 38% of those surveyed, they described as being interested in furry fandom predominately as a "route to socializing with others who share common interests such as anthropomorphic art and costumes."[10] However they also identified furries who saw themselves as "other than human", and/or who desired to become more like the furry species which they identified with.[10] This distinction can be viewed in light of the findings of the larger Furry Survey, according to which a majority of furries consider themselves to be predominantly human, while about 6% do not consider themselves human at all.[11]

Differing approaches to sexuality have been a source of controversy and conflict in furry fandom.[citation needed] Examples of sexual aspects within furry fandom include erotic art and furry-themed cybersex.[43][44] The term "yiff" is most commonly used to indicate sexual activity or sexual material within the fandom—this applies to sexual activity and interaction within the subculture whether online (in the form of cybersex) or offline.[45][46] Many members of the furry community feel that the overly sexual component gives the rest of them a bad name, and may use the derogatory term "furvert" to describe such people. (See the following section for more details.)

The majority of furries report a non-judgmental attitude towards certain aspects of sexuality and a high tolerance for variety in sexual orientation and activity. 19-25% of the fandom members report homosexuality, 37-48% bisexuality, and 3-8% other forms of alternative sexual relationships. About 2% state an interest in zoophilia, and less than 1% an interest in plushophilia.[47][26] About half of the furry fans are estimated to be in a relationship, with 76% of those having a relationship with another furry.[47

2%...

The Kinsey reports claim that 40–60% of rural teenagers (living on or near livestock farms) had sexual experience with an animal at some point in their lives, but some later writers consider these uncertain.[5] Anecdotally, Nancy Friday's 1973 book on female sexuality My Secret Garden comprised around 190 women's contributions; of these, some 8% volunteered a serious interest or active participation in zoosexual activity.[6]

In one study, psychiatric patients were found to have a statistically significant higher prevalence rate (55%) of reported bestiality (both actual sexual contacts — 45% — and sexual fantasy — 30%) than the control groups of medical in-patients (10%) and psychiatric staff (15%).[7] 5.3% of the men surveyed by Crépault and Couture (1980) reported sometimes fantasizing about having sexual activity with an animal during heterosexual intercourse.[8] 7.5% of 186 university students questioned in a 1982 study said they had sexually touched or had sexual intercourse with an animal.

I wonder if that counts a dog trying to hump your leg....

The common concept of animals as heterosexual and only interested in their own species, is seen as scientifically inaccurate by researchers into animal behavior. Animals are, in the main, considered as sexual opportunists by science, rather than sexually naïve. Ethologists such as Desmond Morris who study animal behavior, as well as formal studies, have consistently documented significant masturbation and homosexuality in a wide range of animals, apparently freely chosen or in the presence of the opposite gender, as well as homosexual animal couples, homosexual raising of young, and cross-species sexual advances. Haeberle (1978) states that sexual intercourse is "not so very unusual" between animals of different species as it is between humans and animals, a view with which Kinsey (1948, 1953) concurs.[43] Peter Singer reports of one such incident witnessed by Biruté Galdikas (a notable ethologist considered by many the world's foremost authority on primates):

    While walking through the camp with Galdikas, my informant was suddenly seized by a large male orangutan, his intentions made obvious by his erect penis. Fighting off so powerful an animal was not an option, but Galdikas called to her companion not to be concerned, because the orangutan would not harm her, and adding, as further reassurance, that "they have a very small penis." As it happened, the orangutan lost interest before penetration took place, but the aspect of the story that struck me most forcefully was that in the eyes of someone who has lived much of her life with orangutans, to be seen by one of them as an object of sexual interest is not a cause for shock or horror. The potential violence of the orangutan's come-on may have been disturbing, but the fact that it was an orangutan making the advances was not.

[Bruno]

Here's a fun fact, Quetzalcoatl could toss his own salad.

[stella]

I think dolphins just drag people under the water and try to get it in until the person drown.
I don't know how often the dolphins succeed. The papers never say.

[Elder Iptuous]

I think dolphins just drag people under the water and try to get it in until the person drown.
I don't know how often the dolphins succeed. The papers never say.

how does a dolphin drag something?

[Cainad (dec.)]

I think dolphins just drag people under the water and try to get it in until the person drown.
I don't know how often the dolphins succeed. The papers never say.

how does a dolphin drag something?

With its wang.

[Kai]

They have sharp pointy teeth.

[Elder Iptuous]

[insert joke about black dolphins here]

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Oh, and anyone who just likes the "art" needs to learn how to draw humans and get the fuck over himself.  






And by human I mean human, not anime-people.

Damn Straight! Badger's view of art, or it ain't art!

Once again, eat my dick.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Y'know the funny thing is, i've always kinda viewed badger as a furry because of her handle....

You too.

[Elder Iptuous]

Y'know the funny thing is, i've always kinda viewed badger as a furry because of her handle....

You too.

My handle seems like a furries name?