What are furrys?

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  A Furry Convention at a hotel in Perth ( Elizabeth Quay vicinity) a couple of years ago.

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  So you think SHELLS at nightime do these mascots and furrys bump the furrys or what at ovals, gyms , cricket grounds or after granny's bingo events! Apparently some of those suits get expensive, upwards from $2k to $3k and up Gives a whole new meaning to dogging. Lol

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Thanks Perth Socialites..Crappers this stuff is serious! That was the week I could not access my YOGI BEAR outfit out of my storage. I obviously missed out on the convention after party. No Furry costume no effing furry entry.

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  This reminds me of the movie 'The Sweetest Thing' when Jane does the bump and grind at work with her boyfriend who's wearing a furry suit. It was strangely hot to watch. But I digress........ I would think those costumes are really expensive and really hot inside so maybe having sex in them wouldn't be something they'd do very often. I find the idea of acting as an anthropomorphized animal character really interesting. And perhaps one of the less heard about fetishes. Great topic OP :-) - Posted from rhpmobile

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  On_Safari

  9 years ago

  In 2001, George Gurley wrote a provocative piece for Vanity Fair on the pursuit of life and love as a furry, explaining that “it’s sex; it’s religion; it’s a whole new way of life.” He provided a lexicon of furry terminology, including “scritching” (grooming another’s fur), “yiffing” (mating), and “fur pile” (orgy). These activities popped up on millions on television screens when “Fur and Loathing,” a 2003 episode of “CSI: Las Vegas” — then the most popular show on network television – focused on the murder of a man in a raccoon fursuit who was attending a fictionalized furry convention. Both Gurley and “Fur and Loathing” focused on the most titillating aspect of furry subculture: sex. Some furries fixate on the fur itself, others are attracted to stuffed animals, and still others embrace the kind of guiltless promiscuity they associate with animals. In an email to me, Jesse Bering, author of the immensely pleasurable book, “Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us,” writes: Clearly it’s a harmless form of sexual expression. It disturbs because it’s foreign to most of us. But if there’s a developmental context to this, as there appears to be with most fetishes or full-blown paraphilias, perhaps more of us have long-buried secrets about our childhood stuffed animals than we’d care to admit. For some, becoming a furry offers a safe and liberating way to explore sexual identities, especially for marginalized individuals who might be sexually confused, neuro-atypical, physically disabled, or simply uncomfortable in their own skin. As one academic researcher speculated, the “fursona” may be understood as a “unique and subversive response to western sexual repression,” or as a way to challenge social norms that determine acceptable configurations of sex, gender and bodies. Still, for the vast majority of people who attend FurFests, neither kinky nor subversive sex is anywhere on the program. Furries just strongly identify with animals, and seek refuge in the innocence represented by the emblems of childhood. Given all the animal avatars on the Internet, the popularity of role-playing games, the ubiquity of pet parents and the dominance of the cat meme, is it really so strange that growing numbers of humans think that their true form – their soul – is, say, a warrior cat, and their hominid form is the mask? Since the beginning of the 21st century, the furry kingdom has been growing rapidly. Though the full history of furry fandom has yet to be written, it is generally understood that FurFests carved off in the ’80s from the much larger cosplay (“costume play”) phenomenon and its mother ship, Comic-Con. For years, mainstream consumers have been basking in the goodness that is furry lite, a trend that includes onesies for adults, otherwise known as “cosplay PJs.” The most charming versions come by way of Japan. Called “kigurumi,” these pajamas turn the lucky wearers into magical creatures such as a red panda, a blue unicorn, Pikachu, or Totoro. (Seriously, what human wouldn’t want to wear winged owl footie jamjams around the house?) At its core, the impulse to adopt a “fursona” is utopic, for these nursery-rhyme versions of animal identities instantly erase race, class, age, weight and gender, and temporarily deprive painful social constructs such as whiteness and blackness of their power. Hence, when the CSI team tries to question “Sexy Kitty” because she is Blue (she’s wearing a blue kitty fursuit and a bikini to cover her cat lady bits), she complains, “This is racial profiling!” When the cat head comes off, “she” turns out to be Stanford, Carrie’s gay husband on “Sex and the City.” As a form of escapism, the furry way of life is already here. When the fractiousness of daily life seems too much to bear, we instantly summon Grumpy Cat or scroll down one of BuzzFeed’s many lists of anthropomorphic animals. By turning yourself into a furry, you can ditch Fluffy the Poop Machine and Ted the Foul-Mouthed Bear, and soothe yourself. It may just be the case that furries are proudly embracing what most of us are too chicken to admit — that we all imagine returning to a kind of animal state, a state that is neither degraded nor juvenile but innocent and full of possibilities. The difference is that furries know that the suit is an escape.

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  I think I picked a wiener( a furry one at that). The world of fetish is massive and never ending. What animals would you be if you had to choose a furry outfit or costume? I can picture Will Ferrell in the movie Blades of Glory as a furry. He is sooo plastered that he barfs in his suit. GREAT scene!

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  aussian43

  9 years ago

  I know some furries and they get upset when associated with the hardcore bondage types. That type of thing is frowned upon at their meets. From what I have seen the come from all walks of life, many of them do it at least in part to make kids happy. Besides, those suits are very hot to wear, and you are limited in your movements. Some suits are just the head and limbs with normal clothes for the body which would be easier. Wouldn't be fun cleaning bodily fluids off a suit! - Posted from rhpmobile

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Thanks for posting that exert. That explains it much better for me 👍🏻 Quoting CucknShells If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise! For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain Because today's the day the Teddy Bears have their ............................... Brings new meaning to that song doesn't it? Omg my childhood was just shattered 😂😂😂 - Posted from rhpmobile

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  boobsandbusted

  9 years ago

  Referred to men and women with lots of un manicured pubes ,oops my bad ,please continue,lol Mr b - Posted from rhpmobile

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Bahaahahah we are on the same wave length What animal would you be?

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Lots of furs in Bris. Mainly kitties and puppies, the younger set are more inclined to pet play. One friend role plays as a cute wolf at events. Her animal heads, paws and feet are exceptional craftmanship. The reason she does it at events is that its the only scenario she is certain that she can go up to a total stranger at a fetish venue/event, and physically get into their personal space. It makes people act differently, having a "cat" at their feet. She gets belly rubs, ear scratches, lots of cuddles and pats. She enjoys the interaction she creates. Then you have the ponies...

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Now where do I meet this wolf friend of yours.. She sounds hot. Hope she does not try to mark me a squirt me as her territory , you dirty wolf!

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Was the band that sung nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the Discovery channel furrys?

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  Dryphuz

  9 years ago

  Quoting 'swingalingson' Was the band that sung nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the Discovery channel furrys? For parts of it they were dressed thusly. I was wondering if the availability of animal themed onsies hadn't been a boon to the less costume dependant furries. Interesting story... I was at an anime convention and there was a plethora of pokemon onsie sporting convetnion goers among the more standard bears, cats, dogs etc. A friend i was with asked me what all the people dressed up as animals was all about. So i had to stop and explain (because if you haven't realised from my forum posts by now, i love lecturing) about cosplayers, those comfortable in pyjamas in public and, of course, furries. When i started my spiel on furries i noticed the brownian motion of the surrounding crowd shifted so that there were suddenly more onsies in my vicinity than should have occurred by natural probabilities, all listening intently while trying not to appear to be doing so. I don't know if these people were there out of curiosity as to my thoughts or offended to be associated with furries and waiting for me to step over the line so they could get in some pre-emptive self defence. As is my want, regardless of audience, i kept it purely objective and the onsies slowly dispersed, but i'll never forget it as i have no idea if i was on the edge of being beaten up by people in pyjamas or fur piled against my will...

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