Explain furries to me

Broadly speaking, it's a subculture that's interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. I think only a third of them are into the sexual aspect and most of those are homosexual. In that way, it's a harmless sexual kink - just a way to add a layer of play to sex, that's all.

But this is all role playing, so they're not the same as trans people. No one lives their life as a furry. I guess in a way it's just a pressure valve to destress from the drudgery of daily life.

I blame Japanese anime for this.

I thought they were all bears.

It’s a millennial thing, isn’t it r1?

1. It' fantasy. 2. It's for plain people, who feel more comfortable wearing a mask and hiding their fat. 3.I think it's also a safety thing. They can act out while wearing a protective shield. I dunno, I never met one but I 've never seen a hot one in any pic.

It seems like it might be fun to try once. It holds more interest to me than a fetish party. The costumes don't bother me, it's the meetings at the Marriott that I find most disturbing.

EXPLAIN FURRIES? Get a ticket to see CATS, it's still in theaters.

Are furries zoophiles? Or are they only attracted to people in anthropomorphic animal costumes?

This is a question for yourmillennialdouchebag

[quote]They can act out while wearing a protective shield.

But why does that "protective shield" have to be a cartoon animal?

Are they just normal lads who cuddled their stuffed toys and got all boned up? The girls too, they experienced a sexual response, and their fetish was born? This seems as if it has to have a strong fixation at childhood.

I always wondered how they get the sweat and cum stains out of the fur

R11

Grease fires?

R11, they use their sandpaper-like tongues to lick it off.

"But this is all role playing, so they're not the same as trans people. No one lives their life as a furry."

At least some of them actually identify as animals or "animal spirit", and I'd bet my 401K that they'd love to be able to "come out as an animal" the way transpeople come out as another sex, and live their whole lives in the animal costumes.

But yeah, for most I think it's just a form of play or cosplay, or escapism. When I was a little kid I wanted to live in the world of my favorite animal-centric cartoon, I guess some people kept that feeling into adulthood, and found friends who are willing to share the fantasy for a little while.

Is OP is posting from 2004? Pretty sure we’ve been over this 900 times already. I’m Gen X too; furries are nothing new. They’re fetishists, just like the leather scene.

When I was a little kid all I wanted in life was to be a Paratrooper. One afternoon when no one was watching, I jumped off the roof of the house holding four corners of a bedsheet. It was a hard landing; my arm was broken, and my dreams of parachute jumping were dashed.

Sometimes you have an idea. But reality prevails, and you get over it.

r15 is angry her fox costume isn't wash-n-wear.

[quote]When I was a little kid I wanted to live in the world of my favorite animal-centric cartoon,

Yes but, did you want to be one of the animals?

Aren't a lot of "furries" agoraphobic or extremely anti-social? The costumes give them security to get past their fears? It's an expensive lifestyle I know that. Those custom made costumes are pricey.

Don’t look at me!

They already have transanimals. They're called "otherkin." Different from furries. They're all weird in my book but to each his own.

I can’t explain it, by my child has a friend who “came out” as a “furry” in seventh grade. Two years later, this child is “trans”. His parents are quite liberal and loving and gay-friendly, and I am positive they’d accept him coming out as gay.

What I’ve noticed is that a lot of these quirky kids adopt these alternate identities because they know they’re different from the typical kids and it’s just what they do. They’re just little weirdos who are usually smart and funny.

They're closet cases, pedophiles, and/or men stuck in arrested development.

My brother is a furry and is all three.

So r23 are you saying they like to dress up like cartoon animals because children love cartoon animals, and it turns them on to think of themselves being loved by children?

That's unfathomably creepy.

So are they integrating into the world by working as costume characters at theme parks and sports team mascots?

If you look at trans Twitter, a lot of them have furry avatars or bios.

I wanted to be different in high school, so I wore black Leon Russell t-shirts, black army boots, and ripped Levi's 501's. My mother was certain I had plans to run off with the carney folk, my dad ignored me as usual. It was cool for a while until I needed a job. Back then they didn't hire kids who were "living their truth".

R11, they don't get them out.

What's there to explain? They're freaks and I've never seen a hot one.

I don’t think many people are hiring people in full body Fox costumes these days either, r27.

Explain furries? People who like to fuck in character costumes. What else do you need to know, dummy? If you want to try it, try it. If not? Fuck off, it's not your gig. I worked at a place called Hanna-Barbera Land back in the 80's and I could barely breathe in the fucking Scooby outfit much less fuck in it and I can't even imagine trying to get protein stains out of all that fur. Furries are idiots.

[quote] Is OP is posting from 2004?

OP is Bootsy-Dumbdrop, who rarely if ever has anything intelligent to contribute.

I disagree, Anonymous at R31. I quite enjoy Bootsy's thoughtful posts, and consider him to be a delightful chap.

What do you bring to the conversation?

R31 is still stinging from some bitch slapping I gave her previously, no doubt. Probably a Trumpkin, Meghan troll, sneery brit, or zionist.

Or some other lower form of life.

[quote] I worked at a place called Hanna-Barbera Land back in the 80's and I could barely breathe in the fucking Scooby outfit much less fuck in it and I can't even imagine trying to get protein stains out of all that fur.

lol, r30!

OP, there was a good story explaining furrydom in Vanity Fair in the early aughts. Look for that.

I had a friend who said he was turned on by Donald Duck-like talk. Does that qualify? Inconceivable, I know.

I follow a guy on Twitter who spent years working as a prison psychologist, studying the psychological makeup of child molesters and rapists. He's adamant that furries are the biggest red flag for likely pedophiles. They love hiding their age and identity behind these furry cartoon avatars (also anime avatars) that seem fun and harmless and appeal to kids. It's a great mask to hide behind if you want to groom and sexualize children. R23 knows of what s/he speaks.

Is Zira a furry? She's a doctor.

r33

The only thing you've ever been able to "bitch slap" is your shriveled-up ballsac, you racist old retard.

R27--Leon Russell had t-shirts? Rockin!

r40 Oh yeah.

R24 I honestly have no idea. I know my brother is a pedophile because I caught him looking at pictures/videos of clearly underage boys multiple times. I know he's a furry because he owns, or at least owned a fursuit, and I caught him looking at furry porn, usually depicting child characters. He had a thing about porn with Scar raping Simba from The Lion King. He flunked out of college, worked menial jobs for a few years. The last time I saw him, he had been unemployed and living with our mother, who treats him like a child, for 8 years.

I've been estranged from my family (except my sister who is also estranged from the rest of them) for years. They are all sick, horrible people that I have no desire to see or speak to ever again.

R37 Who is this person?

[quote]He's adamant that furries are the biggest red flag for likely pedophiles.

That makes sense. But ew, there are so many of them! And hiding in plain sight.

YIKES.

Well not exactly in plain sight.

OP, how fucking old are you?

In the legitimate theatre, it's called "mask work" and it's useful as a workshop exercise to develop a character through improvisation.

Furries creep me out. My husband and I are Scalies. What a reptile does in the privacy of his own home is his business. Going to the Marriott is just plain vulgar.

I haven’t a clue about this particular predilection, but I ❤️ wearing onesies in the winter.

I have bunny rabbit onesies, llama onesies, a cow onesie, and a tiger onesie.

I wear them to the grocery store, good over my head, the whole nine yards. IDGAF about looking “odd”. The onesies make me happy. Granted, I don’t actually believe I’m a bunny rabbit, nor do I attempt to pass as one. It’s just fun, and strangely comforting.

Perhaps that’s what’s at play here? Or maybe it’s a group of incels who found one another.

r47 sez: gah, you have to be like … a million … not to understand why some people like to dress up in cartoon animal costumes and gad about.

I don’t know why I clicked on the “Fursuit Friday” hashtag but I deeply regret it.

I had sex with a guy who was wearing a Winnie the Pooh costume one Halloween.

Under the outfit, he was actually really cute.