Room 366 or “How furries need to realize that sex and sexuality ACTUALLY EXIST”
This is an Opinion piece republished from AsylumCat’s site. As stated on FNN before, there is little denying that there is a growing sexual side to the fandom. This is not going away, and with media attention coming to the fandom like never before, it is something that we all need to learn to deal with.
Room 366 or “How furries need to realize that sex and sexuality ACTUALLY EXIST”
So it seems that a fairly tame, especially by today’s standards, furry-made fursuit video has made it publicly onto the web. The video in question? Room 366:
Some furs are absolutely up in arms about it “destroying our image.” Others are happy it got leaked. And a lot of us are like “meh.”
For the most part I’m glad this was publicized. In all honesty that “squeeky clean” image of furry needs to go. Everyone knows what exists beneath the fuzzy coat of furry, and it’s not innocent. And no, it’s not everyone either. Some furs are genuinely squeeky clean themselves. For the most part tho the majority of furs have SOME sort of sexualization towards their interests. I mean COME ON look at what some of the most popular images, videos, and suits are… Sexy. We are human after all, and sex is a innate part of our psychological makeup. The groups of “furry police” that try to shield everyone from things like this are just doing a disservice to the fandom. Saying “Oh no theres no sexual/kink/fetish component to furry, its just a bunch of creative people coming together for sheer camaraderie.” BULL. SHIT. All that does is shield the public from something that is there and they would eventually get used to.
Look at anime and hentai/tentacles/loli/yaoi. Anime conventions are HUGE money and anime fans don’t feel like they have to “come out of the closet” when they tell their friends and family they are interested in it. Then look at furry… People hide their interests like they are shamed by them, pretend that it doesn’t exist. Then eventually they “come out of the costume closet” and tell their families and friends like they are homosexual…
Look. Sex exists in the fandom. Suiters do it, random people do it, kinky furs REALLY do it. STOP marginalizing it and just EMBRACE IT. You don’t have to do it, but you shouldn’t act like it doesn’t happen nor should you try to stop it. Grow the fuck up.
Like the current sentiment in the equal rights fight goes:
Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get one.
Don’t like abortions? Don’t get one.
Don’t like drugs? Don’t do them.
Don’t like sex? Don’t have it.
Don’t like kink? Don’t be kinky.
Don’t like furry sexuality? Don’t participate in it.
Don’t like your rights taken away? Don’t take away anybody elses.
*steps off of soapbox*
Until next time,
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FUCKING. AGREE. <3
I can not WAIT to read this on FurCast, along with EZWolf’s journal that he wrote himself. I completely agree with your view here, and I’m glad you wrote it. Thank you <3
Don’t get me wrong, there are many furries who are “squeaky clean” and well, good for them! That’s great that they’re happy that way, but the truth of the matter is that they are just one group that happen to be that way, and the rest of the fandom is what it is. We can’t shelter the entire fandom behind a minority that is happy being clean.
Very good stand. I used to be a squeaky clean fur, until I really started finding who I was and who I wanted to be. I like sex, so shoot me for it, its a natural want/need to be wanted/needed by someone else in that manner. Enjoy it while you can.
I agree.
There only need to be three things said to the “general public” about sex in the furry community:
1) Furries tend to be more sex-positive than average people.
2) When you get a group of thousands of people together who share a common interest, some of them are bound to take their clothing off with one another.
3) Neither of these things mean that we are going to molest your children.
Furrys aren’t the problem in this, it’s society. There are just some furries that know this cold hard fact. They feel they can only be as tolerant for these things as society allows them to be in the general public.
If you’re starting a con and the first thing you say is that you welcome the adult elements to be as free as they are on the Internet, you’ll be the next Foxmas.
It sucks, but it’s reality.
But in this case I would agree, non-furs have done more provocative music videos and most certainly this is easily dependable to the general public, particularly the MTV generation.
For one i am fine with there being a yiffy side to the fandom, and i am ok with people doing it, what i am not ok with is the negative stigma that’s been placed on to the fandom as if we all do this stuff. Too me that is the problem. This is why we try to suppress it because the rest of the world is not mature enough to understand their own sexuality much less ours.
good artical i see nothing flawed in anything thats being said
Ok, I won’t deny the sex. I honestly love the video, but I HATE the furs that are like, “We need to put it out there!!!” HELL NO. Its fine if you do it, but keep it in the bedroom. Not on TV. Sex isn’t supposed to be discussed over a cup of tea. The anime comparison? Yeah, they have hentai. But that doesn’t mean they go and show it all over the place!! Some random stranger comes up to you and asks about your sex life, you gunna go on and tell them about how you’re into giant dog cock or are you gunna call them weird for being so curious about something thats none of their business?
I have plenty of good friends that would discuss sex or their relationships over “tea.” If you don’t wana see it then don’t click on the link and watch the whole thing. I agree that it doesn’t need to be flaunted, but it’s also you choice to view the whole thing. Also, most furries are not into “giant dog cock” because most furries are into anthropomorphic characters not feral characters, and not even suit sex in the first place. In the event that they are, well, good for them, I can’t relate however.
^.^” trust me, I’m aware of this. It was more a sarcastic look at how some people view us. And I understand that some people have no problems with talking about it like it nothing, it honestly isn’t. But to most of the world people view sex as taboo. Imagine this, someone is curious about this “Furry fandom” thing so they look it up, whats one of the first things they see? Fur Affinity where every other picture uploaded is a well endowed husky/fox/tiger. Or is it Encyclopedia Dramatica? Urban Dictionary? face it, the internet already knows about yiff. We don’t really need to work any harder to convince anyone we’re freaks…
:3
Unlike my Host Paradox here, I agree with you and not with him. I don’t mind that it’s out there. I could care less if fursuiters are pounding behind closed doors. However I’d prefer that some ideas be left behind closed doors. Though I feel that we as a culture shouldn’t fear talking about sex, or censor ourselves for civility reasons but know when it is alright to sit down and discuss ideas of sexual nature and when to keep your mouth a bit diluted. Though this response really is deriving away from this video discussion and more on to the discussion of “We need to put it out there.”
Again, as I stated before. I find the video funny.
First off, let me state that I myself fall under the meh
category, however I still have the urge to voice my opinion on that
matter.
I actually find the video quite funny. And a few parts of the video kind
of creepy, example the staring Border collie that just stares deeply into your
soul. :shivers: But onto the more serious note of discussion. Yes,
sexuality exists in every fandom, we’re human and we are hardwired to love
sex. The problem I see most of the time though is furries expressing this
sexual desire, sometimes at the wrong moments. Like a badly timed
joke. You made the comment how anime has Tentacle/Guro/Loli and so on
however when someone says, “Oh you watch anime.” The first assumption is a clean one. People don’t normally jump to the conclusion
oh you’re a sick pervert.
Now what I worry more about is the social interaction that
takes place outside of conventions, which most fursuiters love more. Even more so speaking from partial
experience, I love. Though as time flies
security at many places get stricter.
There are many establishments where at a time it was alright to fursuit
in, now it’s against the law because of the identity crisis of who is inside
the mask. What I don’t want is more
restrictions outside of a con because uptight society views us more as a fetish
than a culture. I want to be able to
wear mine on the street, and not get confused looks if I have sex in it. I want to be able to go into a zoo and
interact with individuals, and more so interact with kids, teens and adults
without the fear of, “Is that a stain where I think it is.”
I guess I’m like most, I’d like to be able to say I’m furry,
just as easily as to say I’m into anime.
I’d love to see it develop more into a culture in the public’s eye then
that of a fetish. But the short of it,
this video isn’t that terrible, however I don’t want to see it pave the way of
more videos like it. “Oh Scribble Suits
had a sexy party, why can’t I in my home made rabbit suit dancing and humping
plushies. Oh this is going to make an
awesome YouTube video.” There is a time and
place for everything, though there are times where some things shouldn’t be
thrown into the public eye haphazardly, with the response of “Well that’s who
we are.”
I felt the same way about that scene with the eyes. No serious offense to the suiter, but those eyes looked soulless. And yea. I got a chuckle out of it and found it funny and creative.
I agree that the fandom isn’t squeaky clean, but neither is it all about sex–and it shouldn’t be.
As a dragon and a scalesuiter, I completely support this.
People keep talking about “reality” and that the public just can’t accept it. Here’s the solution. Stop giving a shit about what other people think of you. Isn’t that why we’re all here in the first place?
I think what people fail to realize is that Furry is a hobby not a lifestyle. Yes, you can like sex but it is NOT because of being furry that you like sex. You act like in order to be furry you must have a sexual side that GOES along with being a furry, that is not true. Anyhow, your article carries an unprofessional tone and it makes me feel like I was reading a 13 year old’s whining rant which doesn’t really help to further your point at all.
The fandom doest have a squeaky clean image to begin with (opinion). Its pretty much 50/50 (also opinion) of being thought of as a bunch of animal fucking freaks or being thought of as harmless. I understand some people do things like in this video, and youd like to state that it happens but i dont think releasing a video of a bunch of fursuiters dry humping is the best way to go about it. I dont understand how anyone could think furries have a perfectly harmless image, but you can thank the media for preventing that.
Oh my god, I’m tired of all the furs being butthurt about this. Its a hot video no matter who you are. Get over it people.
And as far as hiding the furry “fetish” I can see why some do it. The media portrays us as nothing but beastialists or people who only have sex in fursuits. One of the problems that this creates is that if we admit that it happens at all to anyone outside of the fandom, it define us. Now, I’m not saying that anyone should hide who they are or what makes them happy, I’m just saying that we should emphasize that its not everything the fandom is about.
I have to agree with that. Furry cons should NEVER deny media access. and they should ALWAYS have an escort. I can behave in front of cameras because I know I got to throw the general blanket down and say “having fun, making art, dancing, partying, hanging out with friends,” Let everyone else jump to their OWN assumptions and conclusions not my fault.
+1 for this author! ALthough one thing I think is personally silly is that people hear the word “furry” and instantly think of people having sex and such. When I was younger I asked my dad to go to a fur con and he instantly said no because all we would do is have sex in fur suits BLAH BLAH! It is rather anoying to be pictured by the public as only sex related stuff. I just wish the public would realize that there is so much more to being a furry then Yiffing.
My spelling sucks But I am sure people get the point, anyways I am much more open now that I am over 18 but before then I had to hide it due to my father thinking it was just a big orgy fandom. (even though sometimes that is true!)
My overall point is that publicly people need to get their head out of their butt and realize that EVERY fandom has a large population of sexual related things with it. Furries are just more noticed for that trait it seems.
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Meh here. It’s a shame that this could be used as ammo, but I don’t care. I don’t do the whole “butthurt” thing, for lack of a better term. The problem I see is that people who DO get defensive of the fandom WILL be upset by this… But if they take it that seriously and don’t accept there’s a sexual component? Yiff ‘em.
Although saying that, there are a lot more sides to this argument that just that… I don’t feel I need to state them, however – it’s not like my opinion’s gonna do much anyways. XD
Yep its all there even I knew what was really going on in the fandom. Furry, Anthro Furry, Furry Role Playing, Bed time Furries, & Sex type Furrys. Not every one does it. but they should accept the fact that they are there. I’m glade people are finding out. I see a fur-suit as another toy for bed actshion. Just like a dildo or a wip or even people that like geting locked to the bed. But every one ignores these things. I love being a furry.
Yeah people feel because they are not llike that no one else should be. And if they are they should hide it and be ashamed of it because “most people find it bad” like a parent scolding a child.
I am 12 and what is this?
Bunch of people having a good time while wearing costumes.
Why do any of you feel the need to “come out” about your sexual fetish? The “don’t hate me for what I do in the bedroom” line doesn’t apply when you take it out of the bedroom. You don’t see people talk about “foot fetish pride”. Why? Because it’s not a sexuality, it’s not an identity, it’s a fetish. There’s no need to tell people about it. Moral of the story, you can’t ask to not be judged for your “private business” when it ceases to be private. Outright promoting furrydom as a fetish won’t solve the problem.
This is why the internet laughs at us.
Yes, Anime conventions exist. Yes, that’s a group generally known for tentacle rape. Believe it or not, people generally don’t find that as bad as- I wish I could italicize this- the fandom that’s known for cubs and fucking diaperfurs.
Facepalm. That word cannot describe my reaction enough.
Look, we all know we’re not… ‘squeeky clean’, but that doesn’t mean this is what we have to define ourselves by, either. Face it- this fandom is a fetish. Not a lifestyle. A fetish. And people don’t define themselves by fetishes, they define themselves by lifestyle.
You want to know WHY people don’t hesitate to come out as Anime fans? Or why those conventions are generally acceptable? They might have their own sexual fanbase and active community, but, please pay attention to this next bit: They aren’t basing themselves off of that. (Save for, of course, hentai.)
Let’s put it like this: When you see your coworkers, you don’t know them as John Doe, anal assrape enthusiast- you just know them as John Doe. And chances are, if John Doe isn’t bat-shit insane and actually plans on entering society within the year without looking like a freak, he’s not going to label himself John Doe, anal assrape enthusiast. He just wants to be plain John Doe.
It’s not that hard, and yet, furries are the most stubborn when it comes to following this general rule-of-thumb: If it’s about the bedroom, keep it in the bedroom, because your right to go public about it also means others’ right and freedom to publicly bitch about it.
The overly copypasta quote at the bottom neglects one thing- just as we consider this a ‘right’ for us, other people consider it a right to bitch about things. And, since we apparently can’t keep our own activities private, but rather, want to throw it in everybody’s faces, THIS IS WHY THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BITCH ABOUT US.
I’m glad that, reading the comments, I’m not the only one absolutely mortified because of the pure -irony- I’m reading.
Just as DrSerbia stated, there is no reason you have to ‘come out’ with your fetish. Hell, thousands of other, happy, productive people make pretty damn sure to separate their fetish lives with their actual lives. Only furries that suffer from Unwarranted Self-Importance Syndrome feel the need to come out with their fetish- and when you’re at that point, you have to ask yourself whether you’re actually trying to ‘come out’ as a furry, or you’re just trying to call attention to yourself.
So, yeah. There’s an interesting side to this from a psychological perspective.
I can’t help but feel that it shows a level of neuroses in the fandom that there are people who seem to have the attitude that “I am X, therefore everything is X.” which I think is destructive.
I might actually dare say that that’s the problem.
We have a sort of war of philosophy going on internally in furry. Is it a lifestyle? Is it a fetish? Is it a hobby? Is it squeaky clean? Unfortunately there are people–even here–whom have the attitude that because they fall into one category, that all furries must therefore fall into that category.
The unfortunate part of this is that there are words that would describe those sorts of people, deeply unpleasant words, and if we’re really going to talk about rights then it needs to start at home.
I think that in general we all need to grow the hell up. Whatever will be, will be, que sera sera. See, I think that it’s all this infighting to define other people that actually draws attention to us and gives us a bad reputation. We furries claim open-mindedness and then we’re hypocritical because we can’t even be open-minded with our own.
Is furry a fetish for you? A lifestyle? A hobby? Which is it? Well, whichever. That’s awesome! Have fun with it! Live a good life and all that. Enjoy being whomever the heck you are.
But to be honest, as someone who’s lived through the ’80s, a lot of what I’m seeing reminds me very much of the neuroticism gay people had back then. And I say this as a gay person. Everyone tried to hide gay because it wasn’t acceptable, and then you had people who were trying to define gay. You had fabulous gay pride people, and you had all sorts.
These days you have fabulous gays, you have ‘straight’ gays (gays that could pass as straight people), you have crossdressers, you’ve got bears and leather fetishists, and stuff like that. It all worked out for the best. And no one these days really distinguishes, or tries to define. Gay is lots of things.
It’s interesting.
Give it a decade and furry will likely just be lots of things too.
Be whomever you are. But always be curteous enough to extend that right to everyone else.
This is a wonderful manifesto, it’s the way I’ve been trying to begin conveying the culture myself. The future is looking very exciting!
This is a great manifesto, it’s really what I’ve been starting to try to get at in telling people about the fandom. The future is looking exciting!
No No. Why not just drop it then. poeple are going to talk no matter what others say. Humanity has lost its way. no matter what we do are anything there is always some to juge, or find ways to burn a hole in the furry fandom image. I say people just need to “GROW UP” come on just because people take it apone there selves to have sex in a fur-suit does not mean there sick indavigales, It makes me sick to see so many people freaking out over it. I see nothing wrong with it. Its just like picking on gays, bi’s, and any other that mess with the same sex.
I’m sorry but they wont to do it in a fur-suit by all means let them.
poeple acting out is just childish.
Love it or Hate it. I really dont care. The trueth will set you free.
all i can say about this vid is, is that it reminds me of so many scence in films were a buntch of girls are doing the Young boys or perverted old mans fantasy of a butch of youung girls in a dorm geting frindly …. so yeah this is just a clean fantasy image in my view … just needs more Lingerie ;3
I think the video is terrible. Not because it is showing that there is a sexual side to furry (isn’t that known? There is to everything. Rule 34) but because of the fact that these days we can’t have any songs or music videos without sexual references or acts anymore. Oh well, I’m afraid there is nothing I can do about that~
I don’t understand why you think furry is thought of “squeaky clean” in the first place. Most folks think of the sexual side of furry before the happy go furry side. The idea that it is “turning sexual” is preposterous because for many furs in the fandom from years past and many of the present are more aware of the sexual side then the young folks that are just getting into it now.
When did furry ever get “Clean” enough to even consider it a non-sexualized fandom?
Most furs that have been involved for years spend most of their time trying to recover their image. They’ve spent a long time trying to show people that it is not “only sexual” but a place to creative and supportive of other fans.
Google “Furry” and see what images come up. This video is nothing new to most folks that have had a run in with furry before. If anything, with current media attention, the fandom needs to straighten up and fly right. This does not mean hiding the sexual aspect of it. Instead it means making sure folks know that furry is a very broad category that includes sexuality but is not exclusive to, as was previously thought by the mainstream media.
If you wonder why i say it needs to keep forging forward to make sure it is understood properly, here’s why. Anime and all it’s might suffered major blows to its fandom when folks began to take a closer look. Some kids, despite not really being into the sexual aspect of it were forbidden by parents from doing so. I am sure in the long run this has had least some impact, not a positive one, on the fandom as a whole.
Furry is a self perpetuating celebration of North American art culture. It celebrates the likes of Disney, Nelvana and others. It grows every time an artist joins and shows the world what they have to offer. Whether it be porn or otherwise everyone deserves and chance and has the right to participate.
Do you want this limited by closing the minds of the public before they even get the chance to understand and enjoy what we have to offer?
well i think its humerous to post a sponsored articel on your page next to this with a t-shirt saying oh murrr and a suiter standing behind the fox wearing it.
but dont you think this is a bit over reacting? i know this is ruening our image, but seriously we know that the fandom is about the respect and the love we have for animals and the feeling of that animal in side of all of us.
i am a furry who wears tuxedo tops listens to opera music, clasic orchestras and 40′s music. i dont have anything in comen with the average furry other than what the original fandom is all about.
i normaly wouldnt react on an article like this, but seriously you are going to make us hate our own fandom, look at the posetive side of our fandom, do an article about how many furs got maried to eachother thx to the fandom.
i dont need some more self pitty about others ruining it for us, im sorry but thats what i think.
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While I understand that sex is apart of the community, the reason people are upset at videos like this getting leaked is because we try hard to say that the furry fandom isn’t JUST about sex and when people go and search furry and they see things like this, that’s the only thing they’re going to think about. In reality, sex is apart of everyone’s lives, but forcing something to be sexual when it doesn’t have to be isn’t right. I’m in the furry fandom because the people in the fandom are good. I won’t deny that I do enjoy adult art, but it’s not the art that makes a fandom; it’s the people in the fandom. Those who aren’t in the fandom who see things like this will associate the people within the fandom with things like this. Whenever I tell someone I’m a furry, they always ask if I dress up in a fursuit and have sex. That’s demeaning and frustrating. But it’s to be expected when things like this are put out into the open. People shouldn’t have that kind of reaction when I say the word furry.
After years of hard work at getting good publicity, this one video has destroyed all that hard work. for years now, we’ve been starting to be put in a more positive light in the media, but all it takes is a video like this to destroy all that good publicity. It happened with CSI and it’s going to happen again with Tyra, and as long as we, as a community, continue to allow things like this to happen, then we will never been taken seriously as people and only seen as sexual deviants.
I don’t have a problem with the video.
Sure there is some grinding and such but I have seen far more sexual music videos then this.
I’d go as far as to say embracing it is a bit much. Acknowledging it exists and coming to terms that this is a strong part of furry is what I like to say. It does grind my gears when the sexualization is exaggerated and linked straight to pedophilia/bestiality/etc. Not to say there isn’t a small percentage that cross over, but don’t nail it to the community.
Sex exists in all facets of life yes. However you don’t need to throw it someone’s face! If someone is curious enough to ask then by all means let them know. What others do behind closed doors should be of no concern to others unless it is endangering someone/something.
OMG fusing over this. not a dame thing going on just looks like a group of people just having a party come on iv seen dirtier video’s then this. Ya know star track fans or any other convention has a few that do the same thing. ” ok then I confess we are the only humans in the world that have sex.” grow up people, the only resin people find stuff like this is because there looking for it just to find some dirt on use or just to get there on jally off if you ask me.
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Personally, I’m glad this was posted.
For the love of god, we have porn, and it’s damn sexy.
Sex. Happens.
And furry sex is hot. Literally~
Keep up the good work.
Also, that video was posted on my 17th birthday.
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Dear God, it can think for itself, we’re fucking doomed.
Awesome, I completely agree. It’s not like we’re going away and it need to stop being swept under the rug. It’s causing some people some serious depression and issues because of the view thats currently on us.
Obviously it will take a while and a few choice furries but hopefully we can ease into the category of just a fetish and yes that’s what it is. Yes yes I know some people are clean but thats not what this is about.
I think most of us need to develop that ‘yeah, so?’ attitude like when I dressed as a fox for Halloween and my friends asked “you don’t have sex in that do you?” I just said yeah, so what? It really isnt that big of a deal and WE need to stop making it such a big deal.
It just bothers me so much that we’re considered sick and wrong when theres rape/torture/pedophilia/necrophilia I mean WOW whats so offensive in just wearing something? If your walking around town in full suit with rather visible bits thats completely different but my point still stands.
The thing here is that most people who don’t like the furry fandom always get yiff mixed up with beastiality, and they are not the same thing. Beastiality is sex with an animal, and furries, well, are not animals. Furries are sentient, beings, like humans are. They are a race, not a species, so to call a furry an animal just because you aren’t a furry would be like be me calling an asian, or african, or hispanic, or east indian an animal just because I am not one of those. See how screwed up that logic is?
Now, as to what a furry is. Furries aren’t real (unless they are a life form on some distant planet we know nothing about ), and calling yourself a furry doesn’t make you one. I like tropical fish, but that doesn’t make me a goldfish. You might like furries, but that doesn’t make you a two legged dog or cat either. You are a human who likes furries, but your are not a furry, and it’s as simple as that.
Go figure that, as furries, they listen to a song made by a monkey
As a furry and as a suiter, I’m fucking disgusted by your article. Don’t tell me to EMBRACE this shit, okay? I’m not interested at all in getting kinky in a fursuit and I don’t want anyone who does so much as touching me. Have sex with your partner in a normal way like a normal fucking person. If you can’t get off without fur being involved, then something is seriously wrong with you. How about YOU grow the fuck up and not force things down people’s throats? (ignore the damn unintentional pun, please).
I mean, just…..good GOD. I like yiff, I like hot furries. I’ll admit that. But I don’t feel the need to tell other people about that. It’s a fucking fetish. If you had a masochistic fetish, would you go out and advertise that shit? I don’t think so. I really, really don’t, unless you’re one fucked up individual. You can have your furry sex, just keep it behind closed doors.
This is why we can’t and will never be able to have nice things. >:V
Just to point out the masochistic fetish and how people don’t advertise it… Clearly you’ve never seen/heard of/been to IML, Folsum Street Fest, MIR, Shibaricon, just to name a few.
As he said: Don’t want to be a kink in suit? Don’t be a kink in suit. I (QUITE) personally know plenty of suiters who do, and they don’t “need fur to get off.” If they did, that would indeed be sad.
He’s not saying that the fandom is all about sex. He’s not saying we need to ADVERTISE this sex, he’s just saying that we don’t need to hide ourselves (ALL of ourselves) just to make the public happy.
He’s not saying we need to display fursuit sex on the news, or have our facebook pictures containing us in suit with a Bad Dragon toy hanging out the sheath.
We just need to lighten up. That’s the entire point of this post.
We don’t want to force you into something that you’re not. That’s NOT what this fandom is about. This fandom is about expressing yourself and living your life as you want to. If you are SINCERELY against this idea of freedom to do what you want, who you want, how you want; I suggest you look elsewhere than THIS fandom.
So please, Anon. Remember that “you are the 1 percent”
I personally don’t have that big of a problem with furs and sex and what not, and I don’t envision myself as one of those “squeaky clean” furs who want to cleanse the fandom of all yiff art and what not. Me, as a fur, just wonders what makes these people tick. Why are they so obsessed with yiff? Why is it, that when I browse someone’s gallery on FA, that it’s mostly clean, except for a few yiffy commission pieces?
I know that there’s people who do it because hey, it’s sex, it’s natural, and it happens. And I have no problem with that. But as I read these comments and hear about other stories in various other places I have to agree when they say we DON’T need to be throwing it in other peoples’ faces, the whole sexual thing. I can sympathize with the Squeaky Cleans over the idea of straightening out the image of the fandom because, to be honest, I am sick of telling people that I am a “Clean” or “Good” furry because of this fetish/over sexualized image that they have. I mean, just go on fur affinity and, if you have the adult lock off, look at how much adult art pops up (EXCLUDING art where someone is simply nude — I mean actual yiff art). I wouldn’t be surprised if someone walked by and saw that and went “Oh, THAT’S what furries are!” It’s like when I tell people I’m Christian; I have to tell them that I’m the “Good Kind” that won’t try to convert them or bash their beliefs or remind them every 10 minutes in a conversation that if you’re not saved you’re going to hell.
I mean, if you want to draw and act yiffy, good for you. Just make sure you are doing it for you, because that’s what you want. I remember reading a fur named Accelo’s journal on FA a few weeks ago about how he only started doing yiff because of the positive reactions he got from it, but in the end what became of that was too much for him and he ended up “shelving” one of his characters because of the image that character now had.