[soatok]

> I always laugh when I see that "furry" is a category too choose server from on the official page.

> Too bad there is no "hentai" that would be the cherry on the cake.

It sounds like you think "furry" and "hentai" are congruent categories.

My understanding is that hentai is pornographic. Furry, conversely, is not. More information: https://soatok.blog/2021/04/02/the-furry-sexuality-blog-post

[presbyterian]

Not all furry content is, but all furry communities (or at least, enough that it rounds up to 100%) contain it.

[edgyquant]

It’s still a weird sex community regardless of if it’s adherents swear it’s not.

[flangola7]

But it literally isn't. You're making a factually incorrect statement.

[bamfly]

You're right that it's "not". But also it actually is.

Source: I've been on the Internet a while.

[indrora]

I’ve been on the Internet longer than most of my contemporary peers have been alive.

Furries are about as sexual as any other fandom. You don’t want to know the piles of Picard slash that has been written, then serial-filed to absolutely make it into a publishable novella.

No, what you’re really saying but you might not realize you are is that you don’t like the queer/lgbt & sex-positive spaces that form in fandoms and which are less interested,conversely, in your judgement of them.

Now, my UUCP job is nearly done. The latest installment of “The elves of Borimir” is out and my phone line is getting tied up watching you bozos hate on furries.

[bamfly]

> Now, my UUCP job is nearly done. The latest installment of “The elves of Borimir” is out and my phone line is getting tied up watching you bozos hate on furries.

Hey, furries are awesome. They're tough bastards and I (and I am not being sarcastic) love how they post cartoons of bunnies with come-hither looks or dog-men in leather fetish gear in every forum that allows posting images, no matter how irrelevant to the topic. It's refreshing to see an entire community that's simultaneously very dependent on the Internet, and not taking the whole thing too seriously.

[Kye]

There's a possibly made up story about Gene Roddenberry's introduction to gay Star Trek fanfic. His only issue was all the zipping and unzipping. There are no zippers in the future.

>> "No, what you’re really saying but you might not realize you are is that you don’t like the queer/lgbt & sex-positive spaces that form in fandoms and which are less interested,conversely, in your judgement of them."

I don't know if you've seen The Fandom, but it covers the furry split out of the anime fandom over the queer stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY

We're probably better off for having been given a reason to grow bigger than we could have inside another fandom, but the reasons were still clear, and not much has changed about outsider response except their voices have gotten smaller relative to growing acceptance.

[edgyquant]

Nope, they are way more sexualized than most communities. The existence of Zelda porn doesn’t mean I find it on basically any forum that discusses the topic nor does it show that people get into Zelda just to do weird sex stuff. Neither of these statements apply to the furry fandom because it is a sexual fetish that has tried to become mainstream whole most fandoms evolve sexual communities in the opposite direction.

[edgyquant]

Like I said, it’s adherents can pretend it’s not but no one’s buying it and it definitely is.