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

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I don't see what the big deal is about sexualizing child culture.  I mean, it's something that people have in common, right?  They were children in the same general culture.

It's the bestiality component that makes it too fucked up for me.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Meh, whatever consenting adults want to do behind their closed doors doesn't bother me.

I kind of like it when I DON'T know all the freaky things strangers do with each other. If it's my friends and it turns out that they like to dress in clown costumes and fuck while eating cotton candy, I WILL make fun of them. However, if complete strangers tell me that they like to dress in clown costumes and fuck while eating cotton candy... actually, I'll also make fun of them.

if i wasn't at work i would invoke rule 34

Filling a baloon with live termites, shoving it up someones ass and then setting fire to it ....

GO!

Then a rain of the burning bugs should be sprayed out the ass onto someone's face.

Together we will break rule 34 ... Mwuhahaha!!!!

[Alfred Rhazi]

Then a rain of the burning bugs should be sprayed out the ass onto someone's face.

more so if they were abused as a child it might help them redirect into adult actions instead of creating more victims

It appears I've gone insane, because I can't stop laughing at that.

[Elder Iptuous]

It's the bestiality component that makes it too fucked up for me.

hm.... i must've misread something somewhere. i thought it was the child nature of cartoon animals that made it unpalatable for you....

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It's the bestiality component that makes it too fucked up for me.

hm.... i must've misread something somewhere. i thought it was the child nature of cartoon animals that made it unpalatable for you....

It does.

Combine that with the bestiality element and I'd just like to kick someone in the face.

[Alfred Rhazi]

It's the bestiality component that makes it too fucked up for me.

hm.... i must've misread something somewhere. i thought it was the child nature of cartoon animals that made it unpalatable for you....

It's the two combined that really piss him off. Vodka is okay. Fire is okay. The two together can scar people (physically, in my example) in a way that neither can alone.

[Elder Iptuous]

ok. ok. i'll just let it go.....

as an aside..... I wonder what the average furry has in their costume, monetarily?

[shadowfurry23]

 I'm mildly surprised that I appear to be the only furry active on PD.com.  The only out one anyway.  Though I suppose what with the venom heaped on furries regularly, I shouldn't be shocked.

Firstly, in defense of furry fandom, I present this image:

(GIS 'Felicia' for some more)

If you think she's sexier in those little cat ears than without, you may be a furry, or have furry tendencies.  It's nothing to be ashamed of.  It doesn't mean you want to fuck your cat.

There's been a lot of people mentioning that the only furs they know are on the loserish side; again though what with all the furry-hate going around, LOTS of furries don't openly identify themselves as such.  Significantly, the ones with greater social skills don't.

My time in the furry community was interesting.  My theory is that in any large group of people you'll find on one end people you think are really cool and interesting and would like to hang out with more, on the other end the creepy weird people you'd rather avoid, and a big gray range in the middle of people you really don't have much of an opinion on.  Furry fandom has a much smaller gray range, in my experience.  I've met some very cool people, and I've met some people that made me run away screaming.

It is a common misconception that anyone who is a furry is also a fursuiter, or would like to be (I blame CSI).  Totally not the case.  Many furries think fursuiters are weird.  Fursuits are also expensive.  Some fursuits are built to be fuckable, but that's less common really.  Personally, a velvet bodysuit and some ears and a tail can flip my switches something fierce but I think full-on fursuits are weird (I can't get past the fake head thing, its just too odd).

Similarly, it is commonly believed that 'furry' is purely a sexual fetish, but it need not be.  Some people are really in to anthropomorphics and there isn't anything sexual about it.  Popular focus on the fetish aspect marginalizes these people though, which is a shame.

Some people believe that furries like to fuck animals.  In truth, only a small percentage of furries fuck animals. These people call themselves "zoophiles" and are about as shunned within the furry community as they are outside it.  "Zoophiles" don't rape animals; they contend that the animals enjoy the relationship.  (Yes, I'm trying to gross you out now.  Heh.  Still true tho'.)

In conclusion, I present this informative infographic:


I will now open the floor for questions.  Those wishing to ask trollish questions are directed to that slightly discolored section of floor over there, and will kindly stand there while I pull this lever...  at which point the man-eating tigers in the pit below will answer those questions.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

It's the bestiality component that makes it too fucked up for me.

hm.... i must've misread something somewhere. i thought it was the child nature of cartoon animals that made it unpalatable for you....

It does.

Combine that with the bestiality element and I'd just like to kick someone in the face.

Ok, well that doesn't seem to be all that rational, but its entirely understandable. Personal opinion surely forms most of our reality

However, beyond the personal opinions of the posts here... it doesn't seem that there's any objective reason that furries would be more or less bad/troublesome/problematic/whatever than any other random weird fetish.

So before anyone takes this the wrong way... let me state clearly that I don't care what your personal opinions are, or what your opinion of furries are. I am not trying to say 'not rational therefore wrong". I'm really looking at my own opinion on this and trying to decide if there is some reason for it, or if its just another arbitrary brick in the wall of my BiP.

So far, it appears to be a brick for most of us, does anyone disagree? (and again, nothing wrong with picking and choosing which bricks to keep, if you want to have a wall ).

EDIT: Error removed from Net's quote.

[Elder Iptuous]

I remember seeing this website about a dude that had a sexual relationship with a dolphin, one time.  he claimed that he would swim out into the ocean to meet his love, and they would have sex.  he drew pictures and poetry and crap. I think he fantasized about dolphinpomorphizing himself in some of his 'art'....
would he be a furry? (since there is no fur involved)...
what if you dress up as a naked mole rat?....

[Alfred Rhazi]

Approximately, what percentage of 'Furries' with suits have suits made of real fur?

[PopeTom]

Personally, a velvet bodysuit and some ears and a tail can flip my switches something fierce...

I have nothing to add to this conversation, but I do have this picture to share.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Meh, whatever consenting adults want to do behind their closed doors doesn't bother me.

I kind of like it when I DON'T know all the freaky things strangers do with each other. If it's my friends and it turns out that they like to dress in clown costumes and fuck while eating cotton candy, I WILL make fun of them. However, if complete strangers tell me that they like to dress in clown costumes and fuck while eating cotton candy... actually, I'll also make fun of them.

if i wasn't at work i would invoke rule 34

I was using a real example of a fetish, not making one up. Believe it or not!

[Cramulus]

are you friends with the Porn Clown Posse??

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

No, but now I wish I was.

Honestly, I think the reason so many people on the internet hate furries (whereas people not on the internet rarely have an opinion besides "Haha... really?") is because the Internet is INUNDATED with furries, and a lot of them are obnoxious.