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Furry? - 2/10/2006 10:46:20 AM

Aileen68

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I see a lot of references in posts where people refer to the furry community.
I have no clue what this is. Is it related to BDSM in any way?
Could someone explain or point me in the right direction in terms of links.
For some reason I'm really brain dead today and can't seem to function in search mode.

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 10:58:57 AM

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There's actually a LOT of "kinks" that don't fall into "BDSM"

Furry is its own sub-culture in itself. I'm not a furry so I'm not going to try and give a precise definition, but one of my partners is and I know other people in the scene who are.

Furry Info Page

"1.1) What is a furry?

Furry is a word which has probably been asked to do a little
too much work. It has numerous meanings, and it's not particularly
easy to find two people who agree on the precise definition for any of
them. The original two definitions we supplied in the first version of
the FAQ are:

1. an anthropomorphic animal character. i.e. an animal with human
characteristics.

2. a human who relates strongly, in whatever way, to the idea of the
characters outlined in the previous definition. This may involve
anything from a person who simply enjoys viewing furry fanzines or
films, to someone who actually desires to be a 'real' furry, or
believe that they are literally a non-human trapped within a human
form.

But not all ALF regulars are interested in anthropomorphics.
Some are largely unaware of the 'furry fandom,' or are simply
uninterested in it for a variety of reasons. Most of us who created
ALF were 'fans' of one kind or another, and this coloured our view-
point perhaps more than we realised.
So, after much discussion, we'd like to add a third
definition, one that tries to include everyone who has made ALF a
home.

3. a person with an important emotional/spiritual connection with an
animal or animals, real, fictional or symbolic.

We would recommend reading the FAQ for alt.fan.furry, which
provides much more thorough descriptions of and information about
furries in general. This can be found, along with a great deal of
other furry-relayed stuff, at PeterCat's page at

http://www.tigerden.com/infopage/furry/"

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 11:31:19 AM

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

3. a person with an important emotional/spiritual connection with an
animal or animals, real, fictional or symbolic.

I guess then LA that practically all shamanic people and the Native American who still value the their totems are now classed as Furrys????

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 11:36:15 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: IronBear
I guess then LA that practically all shamanic people and the Native American who still value the their totems are now classed as Furrys????

Every Furry *I* know feels a spiritual bond with their animal that I would classify as the same as those people.

However I think it would be safe to say that "all furries practice that particular spiritual practice, but not everyone who practices those particular spiritual practices are furries."

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 11:51:21 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: IronBear
I guess then LA that practically all shamanic people and the Native American who still value the their totems are now classed as Furrys????

Thank goodness I didn't have a mouthfull of coffee there, that could have been messy!

I'll have to put that one to some of the Shamanic folks I know (Maybe a couple of the druids as well)

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 7:39:41 PM

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This link will explain it

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 7:56:06 PM

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CSI did an episode about them

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 8:08:01 PM

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i have major lust-itis for Mighty Mouse and the coca cola polar bear, but i think that's species confusion, LOL.

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 8:28:18 PM

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CSI did an episode about them

Good episode too...

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 8:49:25 PM

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quote:

CSI did an episode about them

Yes, I saw that episode. I was wondering if this was the same thing.

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 9:25:28 PM

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i saw the CSI episode too. How do Furries have sex?

BTW Grisom knows an awful lot about BDSM, donca think?

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 9:26:21 PM

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quote:

CSI did an episode about them

Seeing that episode was actually the first time I'd heard or seen anything about furries; it was kinda cool in that it's nice to see that there are some new things under the sun to me :-)

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 9:27:57 PM

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ORIGINAL: candystripper

i saw the CSI episode too. How do Furries have sex?

How do animals have sex?

And also, like humans do, there are all sorts of divisions and "types" of furries, one of the common being "plushies"

I think I have that right, I don't know if plushies consider themselves types of furries or a completely separate culture.

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BTW Grisom knows an awful lot about BDSM, donca think?

candystripper

He knows a lot about everything. While there's a lot of interesting details to know about any one sub-culture, most cultures and sub-cultures follow a very common and easily discernible pattern of behavior and personality types. Once you've gotten the observations down, it's pretty easy to apply them in other sectors.

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RE: Furry? - 2/10/2006 10:35:43 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: MsSonnetMarwood

quote:

CSI did an episode about them

Seeing that episode was actually the first time I'd heard or seen anything about furries; it was kinda cool in that it's nice to see that there are some new things under the sun to me :-)

I do like the delicate touch that show has with maginalized populations

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RE: Furry? - 2/11/2006 6:41:07 AM

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i saw the CSI episode too. How do Furries have sex?

BTW Grisom knows an awful lot about BDSM, donca think?

candystripper

The CSI episode was a 'rough mans guide to furries'....

Techinically it was an episode on 'plushies' - which is slightly different but close... although it did a reasonable job in trying to explain the difference for a fictional primetime program.

From a personal point of view... furries and plushies are one of my 'things'... I find them exceedingly exquisite...

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RE: Furry? - 3/8/2006 2:43:44 AM

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And no-one's mentioned YIFF yet

I've yet to see "Fur and Loathing", but I have heard mixed things from you furry friends on it.

Oh, and candystripper? http://www.ayame.furtopia.org/images/a/polarbear_pop.jpg

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RE: Furry? - 3/9/2006 9:49:07 AM

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Hmm...let me see if I can help you out on this one. Try going to this link
http://www.midnitecrowproductions.com/

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RE: Furry? - 3/10/2006 11:58:46 AM

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Maybe it has something to do with Leopold Masoch's novel "Venus in furs"... Good, but quite sad literature.

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RE: Furry? - 8/20/2006 8:40:34 PM

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CSI did an episode about them

For the record, that episode sucked ass. It was funny and all, and it would be nice if the public would take it for what it was: funny. But of course not, cant get past those stereotypes. They played on the major furry stereotypes and of course got the ENTIRE subculture branded with the sicko pervert brush, when the majority of furries are no different than comic book, manga and scifi fans. Taken as truth, every fur is now depicted as a lusty raving idiot who has no idea what cleanliness means, who must absolutely have sex in a fursuit, which may or may not be lined in latex, because they cant have sex any other way. (BTW: the latex thing is friggin impossible and fursuits are so hot that having a massive orgy in them would kill the wearer with heat exhaustion long before they got a chance to get off.) Most furs I know have little to no interest in fursuit or plushie sex.

Sex2k: same deal, they played on the plushie and fursuit stereotype. Without giving so much as a blink to the entire subculture.

Yes, yiff is furry lingo for sex. Whooptido. Yes there is a lot of "yiff" out there because sex sells. No, the majority of people who view or buy yiffy art may or may not be furries. Most are heterosexual males who will get off at anything with a nice pair of tits and ass.

However, at a Furry Convention, which pretty much, only attracts furs, the art that sells for the highest is at worst, PG-13 rated. There's irony for you.

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RE: Furry? - 8/20/2006 9:35:46 PM

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furries are hot.

*cleans her beak, wags her plati-tail*

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