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Slipstreme -> RE: What are furries? (8/21/2006 1:31:52 PM)
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Do you honestly feel that you are part animal? Not in the id sense, but in the "I'm half human, half wabbit" sense?
In my case, physically, no, but in the spiritual sense yes. No one can escape the fact they are genetically Homo sapiens sapiens. We are all human. Our spiritual beings are separate from our bodies. I know in that case, the metaphysical tends to frighten people because it is not normal. Think about aspects of your spirituality. Would all of them be accepted?
Therians are more prone to believing they are part animal than furries, either physically, spiritually or mentally. This is likened to many native shamanistic beliefs. Furry and therian are not the same thing, although many furs are therians and vice versa. Theriantrophy is about as accepted as the vampire community. Basically, not accepted in society, but also little known about. However with therians, their identity spiritual self is rarely an anthromorph, but rather a four legged animal. Many times also, this particular animal will respond differently around them than other people. In my case, cougars tend to respond to me as if I am another cougar, not lunch, or human. One at the Palm Beach Zoo acitvely courted me for about four months.
If anyone could question that there isn't at least some part of me that is feline, they should watch me scene. At the play parties I've noticed, specifically the sadists in the room really liked hearing growls, hisses and yelps illicited from me and I gurantee you, that is not a part of my psyche I can control. It is not simply me "acting" a part.
Many furs have absolutely no spiritual connection to their character at all. They just like to play their character and maybe a part of them wishes they could be that character if only temporarily.
Admittedly you will get that fur that goes around insisting that he is a fox trapped in a human body. (Yeah, you are walking upright and talking coherently too, therefore human.) And he will have it no other way.
I never said that the furry lifestyle isn't accepted because of different reasons, however for the most part it is because people think it is wierd to want to dress up like an animal, and they believe that having sex in a suit means you are also into beastiality. And of course, if you see two furries screwing in a suit, you believe all of them do it, and so on down the line. Most of the complaints about furs I have seen or heard is because of the kink part, and the whole walking around acting like an animal thing, not the spiritual thing, because for the most part, therians are secretive about their beliefs.
Admittedly I have all strokes against me, and I'm literally the definition of an alternative lifestyle, noticing my spirituality eeking itself into everything, including my sadomasochism, which is why I see myself getting into body rituals and enlightenment through pain. So I've almost got everything in me that society can blast back at me for doing. Kinky, hell, no I've gone way past kinky into insane. [;)]
A good documentary on theriantrophy. It does touch on furry, but it is not its main focus: National Geographic's Animal Impersonators. It also chronicles people who have used body modification to become the animal they feel they are in some way connected to, such as Cat and a lady who is slowly turning herself into a leopard.
Funny thing is, that lady, and the guy who is responsible for most of Cat's major modifications, I have found are part of an Arizona hook suspension group :P
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This is a link that I found seems to be a similar phenonmenon as theriantrophy, but in the S&M sense: http://www.collarchat.com/m_214517/mpage_1/key_beast/tm.htm#215121
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