/fur/ - Furry★

I dunno pal, I just blame Disney and every other animal-featuring cartoon for sexually imprinting me as a kid with stylized 2D renditions of animals.

Because cartoons! Looney Toons and Disney. Maybe they shouldn't have made so much kid content full of animal people.

>>50476 (OP)

It's the rule of cute. Everybody likes cute stuff, so they're introduced to furry stuff as just a cool piece of artwork or maybe a webcomic. But then they look at the artist's social media, and find more cute stuff. Oh hey look, there's a website for this!

Fur is soft and pleasant to touch. Add that to an idealized physical body of the sex you prefer. What's not to love?

>I mean why are they so prevalent?

They're really not. Fans of anthropomorphic animals are not the same thing as "furries". But as to the former group, anthropomorphic creatures have been a staple in human myth and literature for tens of thousands of years. Giving a non-human thing human qualities is how humans can form a connection with something that isn't human.

>>50476 (OP)

I just like fur and cute shit.

Somehow, I can't get over my disgust of naked human bodies and how much it was ruined to me with all I've learned about bodily functions.

Everything seems kinda unappealing, unhygienic and disgusting to me and I've not gotten the chance to get used to it.

That's also why I find it more erotic when at least some pieces of clothes are still on the body.

To me, a furry character is the imagination of something you can cuddle up with and an appealing look, all flaws hidden underneath the fur. I don't see the downsides to it because it doesn't exist. I don't get told about side-effects or whatever. Basically, it's something that's still innocent and hasn't been ruined to me.

It might be some deep psychological shit to me. Maybe connected to the reason I feel the safest and not naked as long as I wear my jacket, that's why I like to leave it on in public places. Or why my sex life was so utterly disappointing, because I wished to be somewhere else, had no real feeling for her and I was too embarrassed to look at her or even worse, me.

On the other hand, I'm massively obsessed with my own sexuality.

Kinda weird. Maybe I've become too self-centered due to everyone being such a disappointment for my own good.

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>>50562

It's about personification, really. Just at the core of telling a good story, the most important thing is to create something that is relatable to the audience. If the story goes through events with characters that the audience can't be empathetic towards, then there's little interest in the story at all. For example, in real life if you hear about random animals dying, most likely you don't give a huge shit on a personal level. Maybe you care on a political or a macro level - "something needs to be done about the animals going extinct!" for example - but you don't actively mourn for a random deer that gets eaten by the lion. However, if a close family pet were to die, it would mean a lot more. Part of this is that the family pet is slightly personified to you, which makes you feel empathy towards it. Just on basis of considering it part of your family, you are personifying it.

I find Homeward Bound to be a good example of this phenomenon. In the original versions, the animals didn't actually speak, but by following through their journey the reader was encouraged to see them as having, for example, human-like intelligence. That's what makes their journey so appealing, that they are seemingly ordinary pets but they make an extraordinary journey for the sake of their family.

A good example of a non-furry thing that this comes out in is the zodiac and associated horoscopes. A lot of people take that very seriously, and assign traits and beliefs to it even though it's nothing but relative positioning of stars. Even I kind of do - I don't seriously believe horoscopes, but I'm somewhat proud of being a Leo, in that it seems fitting for me. How? I dunno. Just does.

>>50577

I've been told to see a therapist several times.

I'm trying to avoid it, because I'm one of the few people around me who DIDN'T end up there yet.

My low self-esteem has been replaced by resignation and ignorance. I can't form relationships because they are meant to fail.

When I have a job, I keep waiting for the day I'm fired. Because those things keep happening.

Not only this, people chosen instead of me are utterly useless and terrible, which places me even below them.

I don't feel I can succeed at tasks unless I put them in front of myself, because I can decide if I'm satisfied or not, but I blame my lack of experience, so it's just logical.

And I'm not paranoid anymore because of the resignation.

I should probably go into therapy but I think talking about how crappy me and my life are doesn't change anything, because as long as I don't do shit to improve it, it will just stay the same.

This was a pretty good video explaining at least one furfags reasoning for it.

>>50476 (OP)

For me, it's xenophilia. I long to fuck some alien babe, and furry stuff gets close to that different jazz often enough.

Not always, though. TOo much is straight up just a human with a funny face.

But certain things, especially dragons, do get my goat right solid.

>>50580

Seeing a therapist isn't exactly necessary to resolving your shortcomings, but it definitely helps. Their job is mostly just to help guide you along the right tracks, because ultimately if you want to change it's going to have to come from you. It's about being aware of your flaws and working to improve them.

Also, don't consider seeing a therapist as a bad thing. It's actually decently normal for a functioning society, even in the past. Think of them as replacing wise elders - people you should seek for advice when you truly want to improve yourself. Not everyone is born with the kind of adept self-reflection that's needed to actually fix things on such an introspective level, and I don't know anyone that's just born without any issues at all.

Mind you, it also takes a lot of effort. There's no magical fix, but I can tell you if you go through the process of improving how you view yourself you'll be much happier overall. You might not be entirely aware of it now in your current mindstate, but that kind of resigned thinking leads to a lower quality of life.

>>50583

I'm having difficulty watching this, primarily because he just goes off with saying lingo almost immediately that is pretty clearly confusing. I think his point is fine but he really is having trouble speaking at the beginning.

>>50583

Stefan has this problem where he has to psychoanalyze everything. It's one problem I have with this video where he asserts an enormous amount of psychology and personal history on a group of people he hasn't really associated with and only knows tangentially from what other people have told him.

>>50589

It's not that hard to pick up on minor inflections when talking about things, taking that a step further and trying to crack open the mind is only one step further.

>>50590

The problem is that just making assumptions leads to confirmation bias

For instance Stefan tends to have a handful of buzzwords he goes to almost instantly without fail such as talking about single mothers, poor parenting, hitting kids, socialism, "gov'ment" and other stuff.

This sort of thing requires far more research to understand beyond some troll egging him on.

>>50589

This, along with his horribly slow way of speaking, is why I don't much watch his stuff any more.

Anything interesting in the lot is typically said by someone else in a third of the time, anyway.

>>50476 (OP)

I've thought of them as just being a kind of idealised, abstracted form of hyooman.

Inb4 the retarded "this is datamining reeeee" faggot.

>>50476 (OP)

Manchee is a good choice for OP's picture. Despite being able to hear the dog's thoughts, it wasn't very human-like but still lovable and like a dumb, curious animal.

>>50786

>trusting doctors that get free cruises from corporations for prescribing RX

>>50587

Yeah, I had a lot of nerves in the beginning, but it got better later

I find the human body disgusting, especially my own. People only like human porn because those involved are fantastical versions of the human body. They'd probably like it a lot less if the people in their porn more closely resembled themselves. Just as unhealthy looking and ungroomed.

So if I hate the human body, and want to fap to a fantasy, I might as well fap to a fantasy where the characters also look pretty unique and cool.

>>50476 (OP)

Obviously there is the Disney brainwashing kids thing but I find that anthros help circumvent peoples prejudices in a story. Like if there was a strong female lead who is also an anthro. Instead of getting a knee jerk reaction I'd just accept it because I don't have and real world experiences with anthro characters or because it was already outside of the realm of possibility by being an anthro character so i'd just accept it and enjoy the story.