OK, someone help me here. I have my fair share of kinks and pervs - hell, I probably have and indulge in more than my fair share - but this completely eludes me. What in hell is it to which furries are responding? The costumes themselves? The feel of the costumes? The bestiality? I'm looking for a bit more than knee-jerk furry bashing, although that's easy enough to do. Any speculation?

Furries.... I don't understand them.
But then, I don't understand gay guys who want a boyfriend that acts like a prissy bitch.

I may have forgotten some since I read the Kama Sutra, but I recall several passages saying to never perform oral sex, as it is filthy ...
So why is it that every illustrated version of the kama sutra has oral sex photos?

Taint wrote:

What in hell is it to which furries are responding?

Husband™ credits me with what he's described as a bizarre combination of empathy and a kind of clinical detachment.  That is his way of saying that I can put myself into a variety of weird shoes without getting any of the weird on me.

I do think I understand the impulses behind a lot of fetishistic behavior.  However, the thing that fascinates me most about furries is that I have never felt I understood them, not even a little--so the following, believe me, is purely speculation:  I think they're fixated on old Saturday morning cartoon characters.

If it were the animal angle, either they'd go for actual bestiality or at the very least the costumes would look more like real animals.  But the costumes never approximate real animals.  They look like Disney/Warner Bros/Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

If it were the feel of the costumes, they'd just be plushies.  They wouldn't be interested in having a person inside the furry costume; they'd just want the plush fur feel, and they'd all stay home and the rest of us wouldn't be subjected to their gatherings and the photos thereof.

They want to fuck/be fucked by Woody Woodpecker.

I really do think that's the bottom line.

phreddy wrote:

I'm still trying to understand why some grown men like to wear diapers.

I actually have a bead on that one:  Most "adult babies" are men who are convinced they must never lose control in any situation.  A lot of very powerful Type A's are into the diaper thing.  When a man thinks he must always be in control of every situation, every moment of his life, it seems very natural that he'd fetishize infancy--complete helplessness, having to rely on others for everything.

It's a kink I find particularly disgusting and disingenuous--tyranny behind the mask of helplessness.