There absolutely are people who have a fursona or participate in the fandom in completely SFW ways. A fursona tells you exactly nothing about their sexual preferences. Honestly you sound exactly like homophobes insisting that two boys holding hands is obscene. Just because you equate a fursona with sex doesn't mean that every furry thinks the same way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Your point comparing furry haters to homophobes struck true to me. I don't know much about furries, but I live in the home of anthrocon and the annual furry parade is one of the most wholesome things this city has. Families and kids love to see all the costumes, and furries are some of the nicest folks I've met. I'm always a bit taken aback when people call them perverts - it seems like a harmless hobby to me.

[–] Cypher 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm always a bit taken aback when people call them perverts

I mean… you’ve probably seen what art they commission lol

[–] chaonaut 2 points 1 week ago

Perhaps, just perhaps, you should compare gay art as well. Or perhaps even "straight" art, if you're feeling adventurous! But, no, clearly, the only titillating or indeed sexually explicit artwork is that put out by the furry community.

[–] jj4211 1 points 1 week ago

See that American Gothic painting? Grant Wood must have had a thing for human incest, painting a father and daughter. Why would you ever paint/draw something you don't want to have sex with?

There's a lot of folks who find SFW "furry" content "neat", like this mascot art seems pretty innocuous. Only some of them are also interested in the kink.

[–] Atlas_ -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

From Wikipedia:

Another survey at a furry convention in 2013 found that 96.3% of male furry respondents reported viewing furry pornography, compared with 78.3% of females.

I don't have an issue with gay people. I don't have an issue with anybody existing or being who they are. I have an issue with repeatedly learning sexual things I didn't want to know about people, which has happened multiple times with furries specifically. Maybe I've been unlucky or something, but my experience has been that furries far more than other groups overshare and don't respect reasonable boundaries around this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

People who read a lot of books often enjoy the occasional smut. People who watch anime are probably more likely to watch hentai. It's not really surprising that people's passions and hobbies leak into their choice of pornography.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

What in the useless statistics Batman? So because a large percentage of people who identify as furries have viewed (not actively view, not prefer, quite simply ~have~ viewed) furry pornography, the entire furry community must be a sex thing? That misses more than a few possibilities. Fuck, I've seen gay porn, and I'm not gay. As far as "learning something sexual about someone", unless you're calling learning someone has a fursona learning something sexual about them, this whole thing is a non-sequiter based entirely on anecdotal experience.

[–] jj4211 4 points 1 week ago

There's some self selecting bias there, going to a 'furry convention' is a rather steeper level of engagement than just, say, looking at a webcomic featuring art like this mascot here.

Those more hard core sexual furries scare off casual furries as well as folks a bit timid about being associated with the most... Forthcoming portion of the fandom.

It's rough on some as they want to engage without sexual interest in the aesthetic, but as a result get grouped in with those with a sexual interest. They want to identify as something, and furry is closest, but they aren't into the sexual facet and struggle with that broad association.