When I first started dating my boyfriend, he told me he was a “furry.” I didn’t have any idea what he meant, so he explained to me that he really wanted a costume that was basically paws, a tail, and maybe some other catlike features, and he wanted to have sex while wearing this costume.
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Why are some people turned on by stuffed animals? While you can never know for sure why odd things turn some people on, I do have a theory. Furries emerged in the late 1990s, right when the first generation of children whose entire lives were dominated by Disney products and imagery came of age. After being exposed to images of cuddly, safe, saucer-eyed, anthropomorphized animals throughout their childhoods, these same kids had sex presented to them as something deadly and dangerous during puberty. The abstinence “educators” and AIDS “awareness” campaigns they were subjected to exaggerated the actual risks of HIV transmission, pregnancy, and death. Is it any wonder that a tiny percentage of this Disney/abstinence generation came to fetishize the safe and cuddly stuffed animals of their childhood?
OK, on to WFIC’s question. I wouldn’t recommend surprising your boyfriend with a fur suit. If he’s been fantasizing about this for a long time, then without a doubt he has a very specific suit in mind. It would be better to surprise him with the news that you want to make his fantasies come true rather than to surprise him with an expensive purchase that might be the wrong style, color, hair length, or breed.
I’m 19 years old, and for a while I was looking at disgusting stuff on-line to see if I blanched at it. Here’s the prob: Dad recently found a bestiality flick on my computer. I told him I was just testing myself, but he doesn’t seem to believe me. I was actually disgusted by the images. How can I convince my dad that I’m not some deviant?
–Wannabe Ho
–Frank in Dreamy Ottawa
