# I now cringe at stuff because I am sure furry fetishists will like it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566 "2012-10-03T09:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/21 "2012-10-07T11:35:56Z")
How would you even be aware of the furry pr0n if you didn’t go searching it out? It’s not like it is mainstream, presumably you have to go looking for it to be outraged. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/22 "2012-10-07T12:55:12Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > How would you even be aware of the furry pr0n if you didn’t go searching it out? It’s not like it is mainstream, presumably you have to go looking for it to be outraged. I hate to have to tell you, but I found a lot of surprising stuff when I would click on a web exchange icon that used to be big years ago. It went to random homepages of people that were in the group. Unfortunately homepages contain lots of non related topics. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/23 "2012-10-07T14:54:26Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > How would you even be aware of the furry pr0n if you didn’t go searching it out? It’s not like it is mainstream, presumably you have to go looking for it to be outraged. Pornography and everything evil on the Internet does not need a search engine. It’s everywhere, I tell you. It pops up like weeds in a garden. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/24 "2012-10-07T15:01:43Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > Pornography and everything evil on the Internet does not need a search engine. It’s everywhere, I tell you. It pops up like weeds in a garden. If it does, then you most likely have a malware problem. I see porn or anything else only when I specifically look for it. And I just don’t understand why it’s anyone’s business what other people get aroused by. I don’t get why it bothers you, any more than I understand why a homophobe is bothered by the existence of gay people. Oh, and I’ve seen absolutely no link between bestiality and furridom. The entire point is that they are anthropomorphic. It’s like being worried about pedophilia because guys like women who don’t have wrinkles. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/25 "2012-10-07T15:08:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If it does, then you most likely have a malware problem. I see porn or anything else only when I specifically look for it. > > And I just don’t understand why it’s anyone’s business what other people get aroused by. I don’t get why it bothers you, any more than I understand why a homophobe is bothered by the existence of gay people. > > Oh, and I’ve seen absolutely no link between bestiality and furridom. The entire point is that they are anthropomorphic. It’s like being worried about pedophilia because guys like women who don’t have wrinkles. High five! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/26 "2012-10-07T17:16:03Z")
**BigT** , I suspected that \*\*grude \*\* was being disappointed in the quality of porn, or that he was searching using the wrong keywords, when he complained up-thread: > [@grude](#): > > [. . .] > > I’m bugged by the prevalence of human breast design on furry art, especially on originally quadruped animals. It just makes no sense. That said to me that he wants his anthropomorphic fantasy objects to be \*less \*humanoid and more bestial. Whatever floats your boat. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/27 "2012-10-07T21:41:40Z")
> [@Mihai\_Yu\_Ri](#): > > Soon enough we will see cosmetic surgeries that will allow people to grow fur, have bushy tails and snouts… Then we will have a great national debate on the topic of “are fursexuals granted the same rights as the rest of us?” Followed by the collective decision that it’s better not to pick fights with people who have surgically implanted claws and fangs. 😃 > [@BigT](#): > > If it does, then you most likely have a malware problem. I see porn or anything else only when I specifically look for it. I’ve often seen plenty of porn, as long as I have Safe Search\* turned off. All it can take is a slight difference in search terms and you go from kittens to sexy women (the horrors). \*Which I typically do have turned off; partly because I don’t mind porn, and partly because the term “_Safe_ Search” annoys me. What, am I supposed to think the porn is going to crawl out of my monitor and devour me? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/28 "2012-10-08T00:18:26Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > What, am I supposed to think the porn is going to crawl out of my monitor and devour me? There’s porn of that. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/29 "2012-10-08T12:28:26Z")
> [@Mihai\_Yu\_Ri](#): > > …A slippery slope we are on.. Yes indeed. There are lots of peopole on the internet who find Slippery Slopes unbelievably sexy. Especially when nude or scantily-clad women are on them. ( I am not making this up. ) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/30 "2012-10-08T12:38:11Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There’s porn of that. Yes. Yes, there is… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/31 "2012-10-08T13:38:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **grude** : > > I’m bugged by the prevalence of human breast design on furry art, especially on originally quadruped animals. It just makes no sense. This is somewhat ironic, given that this thread was inspired by a cartoon mammoth. Y’see, female elephants are one of a very few animals besides humans who _do_ have boobies. That is to say, they have a pair of large mammary protrusions, side by side, between their forelimbs. And yet, I’ll bet that Peaches the Mammoth does _not_ have such mammaries, even though they’d be accurate, precisely because they’d look too much like a human secondary sexual trait. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/32 "2012-10-08T18:01:04Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > By all that’s holy, do NOT let **grude** open a copy of Omaha the Cat Dancer. He won’t let us have cats, dogs and ducks for pets anymore. Or Fritz the Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/33 "2012-10-08T20:57:43Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I’ve never understood why, of all the weird porn out there, furry porn inspires such negativity. For me at least, it’s because some of the furries out there are sewing orifices into stuffed animals and screwing them. I am thankfully unaware of similar practices for other fetishes. If I did know about them, I’d probably be as or almost as grossed out by them. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/34 "2012-10-08T21:01:05Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why](#): > > For me at least, it’s because some of the furries out there are sewing orifices into stuffed animals and screwing them. I am thankfully unaware of similar practices for other fetishes. If I did know about them, I’d probably be as or almost as grossed out by them. Why is that particularly bad? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/35 "2012-10-08T21:03:06Z")
Porn with actual animals doesn’t creep me out as much as the various flavors of furry stuff does. Explain that! ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/36 "2012-10-08T21:07:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > This is somewhat ironic, given that this thread was inspired by a cartoon mammoth. Y’see, female elephants are one of a very few animals besides humans who _do_ have boobies. That is to say, they have a pair of large mammary protrusions, side by side, between their forelimbs. And yet, I’ll bet that Peaches the Mammoth does _not_ have such mammaries, even though they’d be accurate, precisely because they’d look too much like a human secondary sexual trait. Wow you are correct that female elephants have two breasts between their forelimbs. Interesting! ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/37 "2012-10-08T22:22:19Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Or Fritz the Cat. Ohhhhhh! Fritz the Cat had slipped my mind! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/38 "2012-10-08T23:43:13Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > **BigT** , I suspected that \*\*grude \*\* was being disappointed in the quality of porn **grude** seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about fur fetishists, and what they might be doing or thinking. Perhaps he has a fur fetishist fetish? That would be a bit niche, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/39 "2012-10-09T00:20:59Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > **grude** seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about fur fetishists, and what they might be doing or thinking. Perhaps he has a fur fetishist fetish? Fetish nitpick; a fur fetish is entirely different than a furry fetish. The former is about furs; someone wearing them (and often nothing else), having sex on them, etc. The second is about anthropomorphized or sentient animals. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566/40 "2012-10-09T00:22:14Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > **grude** seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about fur fetishists, and what they might be doing or thinking. Perhaps he has a fur fetishist fetish? That would be a bit niche, I would think. Rule 34 (b) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-cringe-at-stuff-because-i-am-sure-furry-fetishists-will-like-it/636566.md?page=3)