Furries! The latest fetish!

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I know an art teacher who teaches at a local college. He has no fewer than three trans-gender students. But his next statement threw me–he has a “furrie” in his class! I had no idea what that was, but I looked it up. Look it up and then look at “images.” Furries dress up in animal costumes. As with any fetish (I think that’s a fair term), there is a range of people who identify as “furrie.” Some are more extreme. Apparently the more extreme (30% by one estimate) only get turned on by someone dressed up in an animal costume.

I’m not incensed, I’m amused. When I realized what it was, I laughed out loud. What next?
 
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you’re late to the game. have you heard of otherkin and therians?
 
My adult son is a furrie. He goes to conventions with friends. He is also gay which I understand is one aspect of the draw. My thoughts are that this culture who identify as furries feel marginalized and for my son, he comes out of his introvert shell when in costume. He claims there is not the sexual activity at conventions like there used to be, but I can’t say for sure. He has a network of friends who have supported him the past three/four years (housing and food.) I was told by the LGBT area director that the furrie community is one of the safest of sub-cultures. Please pray for him - thank you.
 
I actually didn’t say that it is.

Adults can consent to lots of things that are wrong, btw. That’s a pretty empty view of sex.
 
It may be an empty view of sex, but ultimately it isn’t my business. Providing children and animals aren’t harmed, I could care less.
 
Not exactly new, been around since Sci Fi Conventions in the 80s.

15 years ago CSI did an episode about a murder at a Furries gathering.
 
People have been sexually abusing children for thousands of years, and sadly, as we see, sometimes those people get the protection of powerful institutions. Rather than trying to assert some sort of future blame on some weirdo fetishists who aren’t hurting anyone, maybe we should all spend more time worrying about the children that actually have been and will be abused, and in general, children are at the highest risk of sexual abuse from people they know; family members, family friends, and other people close to them and their families. Strange people dressing up in animal costumes to have sex with each other is so far down the risk to children scale that I don’t even see how you can even bring it up.
 
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Rather than trying to assert some sort of future blame on some weirdo fetishists who aren’t hurting anyone, maybe we should all spend more time worrying about the children that actually have been and will be abused
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That’s called a false dichotomy fallacy. We can do both. If you don’t see how “anything between consenting adults is permissible” is a dangerous gateway to “anything is permissible” that’s fine, but I do.

There are already groups who say as much.
 
According to my son, this episode was an overly sexed representation and not a true picture. The fur suits are actually quite expensive and custom made. I, sadly, didn’t even know he had it in the house. It was quite a shock to see.
 
No, I don’t see how it’s a dangerous gateway at all. This looks like an argumentum ad absurdum fallacy. The fact remains the single greatest threat to children comes from family and close friends. Worrying about whether some guy who gets his thrills with animal costumes turning in to a predator almost seems to be willfully ignoring actual measurable threats in favor of incoherent hypothetical threats.
 
The writers handling of a “Dwarfism Convention” was also super far off. My point was simply that this is not some “new” thing.
 
Furries aren’t new. They’ve been around for at least a couple decades. Probably longer, but a couple decades ago is about when I first heard of them, thanks to the Internet. Not sure how you’re just finding out about it now. I would also note that we have had a furry who posted here in the past, often mentioning that they were a furry or starting threads about furries.

Not everyone who’s a furry is into the sex fetish angle. Some of them are just generally into furry culture and identifying with being whatever animal they choose for their furry identity. A few years ago my husband had a lady in his office who had obtained permission from their supervisor to wear her fursuit to work because she felt more comfortable in that identity. This woman was coming into the office in a rabbit costume or similar.
 
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My thoughts are that this culture who identify as furries feel marginalized and for my son, he comes out of his introvert shell when in costume.
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This is also the impression I have gotten from the handful of people I’ve known who were involved. Many of them had some kind of social anxiety, and felt much better when they could adopt the persona of being a fox or a bear or a bunny or whatever. They weren’t necessarily all gay either.

With respect to furries being a danger to minors, I would not send a minor to a furry convention unchaperoned because there has traditionally been a percentage of people looking for sex (both gay and straight) at them, but as I said not all furries are looking for sex hookups and many of those that are looking want a consenting adult partner.
 
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