Furry
“‘Furries’ are people who have a fascination with stuffed animals, animal costumes (i.e. mascots) and cartoon animals. Sometimes, this unusual excitement over the presence of fake fur is purely innocent. Some just enjoy the childlike appearance and soft feel of synthetic fur. If this were always the case, I wouldn’t be writing about this subculture. There are people within this happy family who have a pure sexual attachment to these pretend animals. ‘Plushies’ are people who have a deep attraction, often sexual, to stuffed animals. Now, this may seem twisted, but keep in mind this is a completely harmless kink. I am pretty sure the stuffed animals don’t mind. In some cases, ‘plushies’ rub a stuffed animal against their, um, genitalia until they get off. Others cut a hole in the stuffed animal so they can actually have sex with it — literally ’screwing the stuffing out of it.’ Apparently, fake fur and stuffing have a pretty erotic feel. Many of these people own more stuffed animals than any average 8-year-old girl. There are furry conventions, furry Web sites, and people who specialize in making costumes for furries.” — UWM Post (US)
A few different people have sent links over the last few months for web sites having something to do with furry. The links were to sites like fursuitsex.com and beastpaint.com — the first features gay men having sex in animal costumes, the second features gay men having sex while painted like animals. For the most part, though, furry hasn’t come up much in PervScan’s habitual research for the obvious reason that the usual methodology here is to begin with stories in the news, and furry just hasn’t been in the news much. It’s pretty innocent as fetishes go. The most controversy it seems to have stirred up is when a young boy was searching for the fanclub for his local baseball team’s mascot and ended up on a furry site instead.
After the terminological debate surrounding the Glamorous Kitten Killer and whether her squish fetish is really a form of bestiality, you hesitate to call furry a variant of the same perversion. And it’s true that, if you’re stretching the word bestiality to encompass such malignant and such innocent pleasures as squish and furry, you probably need some new, more precise terms. Zoosadism suits squish nicely. Furry is an awkward term for what it describes, insofar as it doesn’t capture it with the same precision as the traditional Latin monikers for various proclivities. But what could you possibly contrive to replace it? Pseudozoophilia, a love of fake animals?
At any rate, the writer of the article from the UWM Post interprets furry as a fetish for dweebs: “Many of the people interviewed for these sites were self-proclaimed ‘nerds,’ or very intimidated by social settings. One of the men said he could be in a room full of beautiful naked women and one school mascot, and he would be all about the mascot. To me, this shows more of a fear of human interaction that is broken up by the barrier of a large foam head between them than a kink.” Somehow this “fear of human interaction” shtick always seems like a cop-out explanation. This isn’t to say that there may not be some truth to it. The difficulty, rather, is that it presumes a sort of flawless communicativity to “normal” relationships, as though noise never interferes with the signal in a love match. This just doesn’t seem realistic. There’s plenty of noise in marriage, in long-term relationships, in brief but loving affairs. Why do the communication blockages in furry stand out any worse than those in a “normal” relationship? After all, if you had to choose between shyness in a fur suit and spats in a marriage, the fur suit sure sounds like more fun.
Fear of human interaction? The dude likes furs, so why would he choose women if there was a fur near him? It’s like calling a gay man afraid because he will go for the man in a room of women.
I know what you could call the furries…
Plushophile
Or, maybe Furvert?
The ‘furdom’ seems to contain just about every kink imaginable.
There are some that are into things that make my skin crawl, or would make my fur crawl be more appropriate?
Im not attracted to plush animals or anything. To over simplify, I guess you could say that I have the “soul” of a fox. I feel a certain kinship with my brethren.
Furry isnt anything new. If you are talking about the kink side of it then yes, it seems to have come out of the woodwork with the internet.
As for the more spiritual side of it (nowhere near as popular) it has been around for quite some time. Merlin, for example practiced something that was known as “Fox magic”. Some have beliefs that are not unlike the Native American’s beliefs.
I guess for some, its a modern turn on some very well established beliefs.
Please remember, we are not all the same. So next time you see a fur, judge as you wish to be judged, by your own merits, or lack thereof.
Howdy Treadlok. Fancy meeting a pervert like you here (from another pervert)
:)
*blushes*
Yea, I turn up in all sorts of odd places. :)
When I was a kid in Israel, there was a rabbi who was jailed for inviting children to place their penises in a milk bottle filled with liver that he inserted in the rear end of a stuffed monkey. I think he was a pioneer.
Sheesh. Some people just don’t get it. The Encyclopedia Dramatica article is a fake, and the UWM article is just full of cluelessness.
Sturgeon’s law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Revelation
Granfalloon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon
I’m 39, straight, and thin! Just broke three stereotypes!
Labels… hate em! “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Well, speaking as a fur, and a scoloar of psychology. it has nothing to do with beastiality or annything. More to do with Xenopehilia (atraction to the unknown)or toonophelia (love of cartooncharacters).
Offcourse even here there are subcatagories.
A lot of things are possible in the imagineation that are not in the real world. We don’t let oourselves be confined by it.
Many people like the idea of mating, with a being who is sort inhuman though still human in some respect. And a lot of people perfer the soft touch of fur to that of skin.
I guess we all like the casual escape from reality sometimes.
Some people such as plushophiles taketheir yiffy fantasies out on plushies (stuffed animals)
if you look at anny random selection of sextoyshops they acually sell plushies as sex toys,even rubber duckie vibrators. so it’s not tat unusual really we could be walking right next to you and you wouldn’t even know it.
toonophiles, now theres a funny thing. I remember when i was a kid there used to be an advert for cadbury’s caramels with a sexy cartoon bunny in it. I always felt a bit confused about my feelings to her..
but now i have seen who did her sexy voice, i’ve gone off the whole sexy rabbit thing :- http://www.monkeyheaven.com/dubbing_miriamm.html
“To me, this shows more of a fear of human interaction that is broken up by the barrier of a large foam head between them than a kink.”
I would agree with this. In my time in an online game called Second Life, there is a VERY large and thriving furry community. One thing i’ve noticed that is common in a vast majority of furry’s profiles (each avatar has a space to write a bit about themselves) is that they very often describe themselves as “shy” literally the word “shy”.
Ultimately however, it’s impossible to define the furry community as anything, since it’s spectrum is so wide. You could say they’re perverts, but there are such things as furries who don’t care about “yiff” as they put it. You could say they’re freaks, but some of them are quite normal and only think the furry look is kinda stylish and unique.
Furries do range to extremes, some as I stated, only like how the furry look is (not even dresses up in fursuits or anything), while others will go to cons in fursuits with strategically placed holes and will have fetishes that make you wonder how they even THOUGHT of something so strange, and then yet others will take it as some sort of religion like the anonymous fur above, and say that they have the soul of some animal, or were this animal in a past life, or ARE this animal and for some reason are stuck in this form.
I think the last one is completely ridiculous, but I also believe the christian religion is too, so they both deserve the same amount of credibility and allowance as long as they don’t force their beliefs on anyone.
Either way, i’ve been familiar with furries for quite a few years now, and they’ve still never ceased to amaze me in what ranges they can stretch too.
Just one correction. That “young boy searching for the fanclub for his local baseball team’s mascot and ended up on a furry site” never actually happened. That “newspaper cutting” was faked up as a joke by somebody. (The fact that it’s on Encylopedia Dramatica would be a clue if you knew what that site was about.)
no no no no no no No. If more people actually went to the Fandoms and read what the deffinition of a furry actually IS, this kinda stuff wouldn’t be popping up everywhere. While there’re many differnt forms of furriness, the most consistent is that of a person, who is physically attracted to the thought of a sentient animal, usually bipedal.
Demon,
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