yea i'm a furry. friggin deal with it.
let me clear something up. i am not sexually attracted to animals i do not fursuit and i don't watch furry porn. thats not what a furry is! get your facts straight before you hate me.
Ayeaka Wrote:
What is a Furry to you?
This can be, and generally is a very broad question, as everyone has their own definition. I see it as someone with a love for animals, and perhaps a greater understanding of them than the average person, fursonas aside. Someone who can generaly understand what their pet is thinking better than they can, perhaps, another person. On the subject of 'therians', I have a theory branching off of the more common one. Rather than a person possessing an animal's full 'soul', I believe it's more a..fragment. A final 'urging', if you will, to fulfill the animal's needs, and give the being of their choice insight into their world. As I am a Christian, I believe that perhaps this process is guided by God himself--but I do not wish to force my views on anyone.
Why do you consider yourself a Furry?
While I enjoy a great many things, I've always had a softspot for animals, and I've always felt that tug to donate to animal-oriented charities. I don't believe that I am anything other than human--although I have my own theories as to why I feel such a drive. I also enjoy drawing, and viewing furry art, as well as reading and writing stories geared toward a more... furry audiance.
Are there different kinds of Furries? If so, what are they? Which one are you?
Again, this can be a very broad question, as everyone has their own definitions. There are 'fans', 'fetishists', 'conservationists', and 'therians', from my own point of view--but this is only my opinion, of course, and a person may belong to more than one group, with lots of grey area inbetween them. Fans are, of course, as they sound. They enjoy furry-related things, and perhaps produce them themselves. But they don't neccesarily see any more than that. Fetishists are, perhaps, a simply more deviant version of the 'fan'. They are..sexually arroused by various fetishes, and share them throughout the furry fandom, as the furry community has a tendency to be more understanding, and thus, open to them. (Such as inflation fetishes, and vore, which are often shunned outside of the furry community.) Conservationists are, perhaps, where I stand. Conservationist was the only name I could come up with for one who might be a fan, but with more of a drive to help protect animals, and ensure a better existence for them. Then, finally, we have therians, an area where I have some crossover. Therians take a more spiritual view on their being a 'furry', and some refuse to use the terms furry, and furre, due to the bad reputation behind them. This deserves a topic of its own, perhaps, and as my furre side has little hold over my religion, (save for me believing that the two mesh, as it is, rather well,) I can't really discuss it myself.
