Two-Face, from Batman fame, is a furry.

[verix]

Hell yeah you get what I'm sayin'.

Anyway, what better way to put my current thoughts on furry shit than to an echo chamber?

Anyone who's seen that Boing-Boing interview thing will notice that, curiously, no one is talking about sex. Which is hilarious, because one of the people interviewed is the infamous Mark Merlino. And, simultaneously, the entire interview's credibility is totally ruined for me considering that I KNOW THOSE PEOPLE AND HAVE TALKED TO THEM.

SoCal furs are pretty cool dudes. They're laid back, chill, don't really care how perverted furry is and can get, and are over-all non-failures. And I love them for it. And yet for some reason they can't help but play themselves up when a camera is in their face.

I've caught myself doing this before, and I got upset with myself afterward, but I try my best to tell the truth about who we are-- human society with animalistic tendencies and an open mind to the point of it falling out of our heads.

This is what I find the most hilarious bit of all: we take ANYONE. If you're a balloon-skunk with a 12 inch dick who's just as old, cool, that's pretty rad, as long as you don't steal other furries' art. (MP3s are cool though. So is torrenting. As long as it's not the new AlphaFox video.) If you like to get your freak on in the freakiest of all possible freaks, crafting feats that a Ph.D of Engineering would scratch his head at, just to get your bone on, we'd probably want to buy it (if we had money because we are all unemployed).

But when a camera is in our face, apparently furry is a UTOPIAN SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND CUDDLES.

Apparently we haven't gotten over the puritan belief that any mention of sex is a horrible thing. Because whenever sex is brought up, it's either "no, furries aren't all about sex" or "yeah, furries have some sex, but..."

Has anyone ever stopped to think about normal people for just one fucking moment before covering up the dicks with hot-dog stickers in the Dealer's room?

Normal people love dick too! In fact there are entire classes at universities that argue that the majority of wars are mostly about DICK. Or women! Or sex, for fuck's sake! Take away someone's right to pleasure and they will fucking nail you to the cross. Why do you think human porn is such a vastly powerful industry? It is human nature to seek out euphoria!

Normal folks look at us with binoculars like "whoa, sex!" because we're open about it! And that's pretty much it. It's foreign to them. You can't talk about it in their circle of friends because... well... it's dirty. Sex is bad. It is bad for you. But we accept sex as an awesome thing-- which puts us miles ahead of regular folk-- and yet we're afraid of people finding out about this?

Is the beauty of sex the gold at the end of the rainbow? Are we some sort of group of leprechauns guarding our gold? This two-faced bullshit is so incredibly annoying. I wish people would either accept and admit that they're strange or just get the fuck away from the camera. It's really making me want to actually seek out journalist institutions and tell the real story, because I'm frankly sick of people going "NO WE DON'T HAVE SEX AT ALL WE ALL WEAR CHASTITY BELTS WITH FUR GLUED ON."

[ProvincialTwit]

I get what you're saying here, and I think that's one of the great hypocrisies of furries.  They're so big into flaunting their fetishes, and showing off their, if you'll excuse the cliche, shitting dick-nipple hermaphroditic gerbil-taurs, and just generally acting like huge sexual deviants.

...until someone actually asks about sex.  I love it.  Don't ask == FLAUNT IN YOUR FACE.  Ask == Sweetness and innocence and purity.

I propose then, that one of the reasons for this, and in fact one of the reasons so many furries are gay males (not counting the 'jailhouse gay' theory), is that furries are afraid of sex.  Specifically, normal, missionary-position, heterosexual intercourse.

Think about it.  Many, if not most, furries are socially inept, not terribly in-shape or attractive, etc.  They have a hard enough time interacting with normal people under normal circumstances; god forbid they ever try to interact with ZOMG A GIRL in a personal and intimate manner (especially a girl who isn't a furry).  So, starved for some sort of stimulation, they fall back on the lowest common denominator, ie, themselves.  Joe Average Furry knows what sorts of things make himself feel good sexually, so it's more comfortable for him to be intimate with another male who has the same 'plumbing' so to speak.  Essentially, he can get the other guy off, and he can be confident the other guy can get him off.  Everybody comes, everybody wins...but maybe there's a little shame, because he's not realy gay, he just wanted to get off, and the idea of sex with a woman presents so many foreign concepts (oh god tits and vags and rejection and what's going on!?) that he's too afraid to even pursue it.

Typefucking is easy and tidy and all in the imagination.  Drawing a hyperphallic fox thing shooting a gallon-sized load is all visual and no physical, and is, in effect, attractive to furries because it's pure fantasy (hence why humany porn is a no-no).  Two bodies bumpin' uglies is hot and sweaty and dirty and smelly and physical and tiring and real.  It's a lot harder to pretend you're some noble svelte wolf railing a busty ferret when you're both there in a hotel room panting from exhaustion and praying you'll orgasm before you run out of energy.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to discount normal homosexuality as some sort of fear of women.  I've known many gay men both in and out of furry who are well-adjusted individuals, function in normal society, and just happen to be attracted to the same sex.  That's great.  Gays are cool.  But the reasoning and psychology behind it is totally different.  I don't want to pull this completely off-topic, so I'll stop there.

[Kindrift]

With recent furry media outings, the furries have tried to play down the sex.  Vanity Fair CSI Sex2k digital gar gar gar, which is why we haven't seen anyone's modified plushie collection or living room plastered with erotic art in quite a while.  Raging cartoon pedophile Nicol of Cubcentral even tried his best in his Eating Media Lunch interview.  To generalize, furry behavior toward the media is an overreaction after the very much negative press of the past.  But that's only a generalization, and the media still catches a few furries who leap at a reporter and explain just how many furries they think would fuck their pets if it were legal and accepted -- SFR caught a couple furries like that among the family-safe ones in Fluff Piece.  Even then if a reporter asks about sex they're likely to deny it.  If they ask about sex, they're obviously out to denigrate the culture, aren't they?  If they don't ask about sex, they're probably honest and objective.

To be fair, part of it's a deserved reaction.  Furries worry that their personal lives will be affected when everyone they know also knows about the bad side of furry and no one knows the good side.  And Lord, does the media enjoy the bad side.  The bad side's gotten a lot of attention, so the onus on the individual furry is to push the good side.  So, you get the people who tell half-truths about the culture, the people who outright lie, the people who get those incredulous looks from the interviewer as the camera zooms in on the fursuit in leather gear or the stuffed animal in the bondage collar.  The furries do try to get away with being perverts in public, which is fine by me, but usually get caught in a camera anyway and just make life harder on the furries who want to push a positive impression.

Yes, we're a bit of an echo chamber.  Unless we can catch some new posters from FurryNews with new opinions.  I know there's a middle ground here, and some responsible adult needs to push the fact that furries are sexual creatures just like the rest of the planet.   Maybe more open-minded and free to act than the average social conservative, but still acting on the same desires.  The common furry would do well to avoid the cameras, as certain media outlets will be happy to twist words around, ask misleading questions, and take advantage of the average antisocial nerd.

I'd prefer the dicks in the dealer's room to be covered by Hamtaro stickers, personally, but that's another story.  It's hard enough to avoid breaking out laughing at Schwartz.

[Fantastigasm]

SoCal furs are pretty cool dudes. They're laid back, chill, don't really care how perverted furry is and can get, and are over-all non-failures. And I love them for it. And yet for some reason they can't help but play themselves up when a camera is in their face.

People in southern California love to be on camera? That is a shocker, indeed.

[verix]

Vanity Fair CSI Sex2k digital gar gar gar, which is why we haven't seen anyone's modified plushie collection or living room plastered with erotic art in quite a while. 

hahahah up until this BoingBoing thing though

Mark Merlino and his mate there, they're sitting in front of what is probably like four-foot pile of plushies. One time at that house-- which hosts the main furry party of Southern California-- a dude named GORE came across those plushies one time. He decided, for some stupid reason, to look under the tail. Sure enough, there's a huge-ass semen stain along the underside of it.

Someone who was with him at the time was like "oh god put that back." But, considering the hilarious asshole he can be sometimes, he was having none of that. So he goes out into the living room, where the pseudo-social furries are sitting and watching anime or some other thing, and just screams out: "EVERYBODY! LOOOOOOOOOOOK!"

How I wish I could have been there for that.

[ziggy_wolf]

  I gess in society in general sex is regarded as taboo, take the us as awhole. in general youære not suposed to have sex before marrage and all ovies and things are cencored. Well who is the bggest producer of porn in the world the us and asia.
I just find it so Ironic. or me sex before marrage is like a must, you gotta try before you buy.
If it doesn't work, well then you've got a problem, I think this is a major cause of devorces, not all, but a great contributor.
I'm a furry who's open abot it, I accept it for what it is. It's good, its fun, but to much focus can ruin it in my opinion.
When people se my yiff art they are first embarresed then, they tell me they wish they could draw like that.
when people ask if I've done this or that, or are curious about somthing I answer in a serious maner.
Yeah I've done the whhole bdsm thing, it's quite fun mate.
Just ask your mate if he/she wants to try it, you might be surprized.
Sex is everywhere in society, take anime for instance, all the hentai out there. same thing.
It's just so ironic when people say it's bad, but they want it just as much as everybody else.
Love and peace!

[ProvincialTwit]

That guy is seriously the worst poster ever.

[verix]

youære

that's the most amazing typo in the entire world

[Striker]

blarg

WE REALLY DON'T NEED TO MAKE THIS SORT OF POSTING A BANNABLE OFFENSE BUT IF WE HAVE TO