Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Gargoyle · Coadjutor Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 91

BEHOLD an Internet time machine! Note usage of "teh" word "famdom" - furries of 1992 were as dumb as the furries of " teh future" :D

Furry Famdom--present and future

After reading teh wonderful post about Furry Famdom History, I just had to reply and give my observations of furry fandom now and in the future. (...)
What is happening, is the transformation of furry famdom into something never conceived years ago. (...)

http://groups.google.pl/groups?selm=7APR92.02184979%40umbc2.umbc.edu&output=gplain

m_estrugo · Venter Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 222

What is happening, is the transformation of furry famdom into something never conceived years ago. It is becoming a high-tech cutting-edge genre of comcis and fandom that will set precedents for years to come. Personally, I am glad I am here to see it.

Well, that -was- my illusion too. It's a real shame that...

What really happened was the transformation of furry fandom into something never conceived when that message was typed. It became a haven from sanity, a shelter for perverts who found a supporting community for their quirks, a showcase for adolescent angst and immatureness, and a source of mocking and laughter for years to come.
Personally, I am NOT glat things went that way.

weird_guy_in_the_corner · Rasophore Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 64

I couldn't even read the whole thing, it was so boring. Christ, the least he could've done was talk about how all this new technology was letting him textfuck his boyfriend, and then go into really explicit detail about it.

ZenZhu · Needs to get out more Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 897

NOW HE GAY FROM YIFF!

creature · Venter Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 221

What really happened was the transformation of furry fandom into something never conceived when that message was typed. It became a haven from sanity, a shelter for perverts who found a supporting community for their quirks, a showcase for adolescent angst and immatureness, and a source of mocking and laughter for years to come. Personally, I am NOT glat things went that way.

Sadly, I think the furry fandom has a major case of "I'll try anything once"... or in some cases ten or fifteen times. It's gotten to the point that the furry fandom is more about sexual adventurism then anything else.

Paul · Venter Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 297

Sadly, I think the furry fandom has a major case of "I'll try anything once"... or in some cases ten or fifteen times. It's gotten to the point that the furry fandom is more about sexual adventurism then anything else.

That would explain a lot. I mean, plenty of good, possible reasons for the decline of "furry" have been offered and discussed on CYD, but the simplest explanation is often the right one. And this fits. Furrydumb's tolerance of nigh-everything makes it the perfect environment for sexual adventurism, whether it comes down to drawing or asking for really weird porn or actually trying out weird stuff with other people, er, furries. To the point where this, like creature writes, has become the dominant aspect of the fandom - and merely appreciating anthro art is now a niche in it.

ZenZhu · Needs to get out more Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 897

I think the whole sexual adventurism angle is a pretty good summation. Furrydom, however, is further compounded by the fact that much of this is done in cyberspace. This adds to the freak factor because it means we're getting into the realm of the utterly impossible. We're not just talking about having your girlfriend bone you with a strap-on or wife-swapping or something..... we're talking about tentacle rape, transdimensional hyperherms, snuff scenes that you can survive and some 3ft. shetland pony dry-humping Godzilla's toes. So, not only is furrydom becoming largely a product of the "I'll try anything once" mentality, but a product of trying everything possible and everything not possible.

Not only can people with a fixation on having hyenas cut their balls off come into furrydom and be told their fetishes and fantasies are good, but can receive further validation by finding some desperate 17-year-old with a hardon and an aptitude for one-handed typing that is willing to give their fetish a try. Half of these people are so desperate for a wank after 2 hours if fishing around for something other than a conversation about Sonic the Hedgehog that they'll agree to just about anything they can beat off to. So, the freaks get their fix and start to get the idea that their fixations are okay, since other people are willing to partake of them.

Furries are so good at stripping away the mental barriers that nature gave us that they can convince themselves in a heartbeat that anything they can beat off to is somehow more sexually liberated than your typical "mundane" attitudes. One such thing that I can think of.. though not exclusively furry.. is this whole scat thing. There is a good reason most folks have a natural aversion to anything involving another person's shit.. or their own.... it's unhealthy. I'm not talking "product of a sick mind" unhealthy.. I'm talking fecal coliform and e. coli unhealthy. I mean "take me to the emergency room, I have severe abdominal cramps and blood in my stool" unhealthy. I'm talking "call the EPA, our water supply is contaminated with sewage" unhealthy. Scat.. rimjobs.. sucking someone's cock after it's been in your ass or someone else's...... there's a reason most people don't go there... cuz it can honestly make you ill. But furries are pretty good at detaching themselves from the concepts involved in RPing some fetish or something online. As long as it results in an orgasm, they're down with it. With such mental conditioning going on online, for many, it's just a slight push-off to sled down the hill into engaging in those behaviors for real.

On top of that, we're talking about a group of people that, by and large, use these fantasies to color their reality. Of course, the degree to which they do it varies from person to person... ranging from people that just imagine what a furry world would be like to people that try and keep the mental image of themselves as a furry at all times to those yahoos that honestly think they're some sort of misplaced animal spirit. So, if you're already used to looking out at the real world through a haze of your self-perpetuated fantasies, sexual attributes and behaviors that might not just be fantasy, but physically impossible start to become commonplace in your outlook on the world. Of course, the real world can't live up to their fantasies.... so it's small wonder they have to concoct some kind of behavior or apparatus to bridge the gap between the real world and a fuzzy dimension of hyper-endowed hermtaurs.

I think furries also begin to migrate from a comprehensive sexuality to one based on particular niches. For most sexually healthy people, their sexuality consists of a variety of things... their sexual interests, their sexual values, their preferences in partners, what kind of day they've had, what kind of environment they're in, etc. In human behavior, sex is really an ever-present factor. It consists of so many little things adding up to a greater whole... much of which we're not even cognizant of.

Furry sex, however, is a lot like furry characters. If you've ever looked at the majority of characters, they often have some kind of angle.... some thing that makes their characters stand out and upon which the entirety of their character is based. It could be a trademark hat the character wears.... the character's occupation.. the character's fur color.. the character's obsession with a particular food item. Most furry characters that people use as their avatars are pretty one-dimensional. They always have some feature like rainbow-colored fur or they're never seen without their Nikon camera or they can't go 5 minutes without a chocolate-covered bologna sandwich.

I think, in a way, furry sex has devolved into a state where the sexuality of the player via the character is not an all-encompassing thing, but relies on some kind of hook. This character is a 1" tall parasaurolophus that fucks people's toes (there actually is one guy out there that I know of like this... I had to change the desc of one of my characters when I was on FM to include armor that would specifically keep the little bastard from running between my toes and spooging them). This one likes tentacle creatures. That one has two dongs.

Many of the "hooks" are pretty non-unique. There's plenty of characters that have multiple phalluses... plenty of skunks and foxes whose sole purpose in life is to just be a complete slut for anyone that will slap a collar on them and ride them like one of those quarter-operated rocket ships next to the supermarket. But, despite this, whatever their hook is is basically the whole of their sexuality. So, not only have furry characters become largely one-dimensional, but their sexuality has as well.... a trademark fetish or feature that characterizes their quest for an orgasm in much the same fashion as "Where's the beef?" characterized Wendy's many years ago.

Variety is the spice of life, but it's not the entree. Total sexuality is like a well-prepared, well-balanced meal. You have your steak, nicely seasoned with some sea salt, cracked black pepper and other spices. You have some green veggies... some garlic potatoes.. and maybe a nice red wine to wash it all down.

Furry sexuality is like serving up a steaming bowl if paprika.

I think this could be interpreted further to their outlook on the real world and themselves, but I'll save that for another time.