So is it a fetish or an orientation? You can't just make things up for your sake to make you look better. A zoophile is someone who takes part in zoophilia and zoophilia is an abnormal fondness for animals to put it lightly.
@SpacePanther Is it a fetish or an orientation you ask? After looking into it a bit I would say that zoophilia is a fetish if we are using the strictest definition of both "fetish" and "sexual orientation". Sexual orientation differs from a fetish in that it is a bit of a subfolder. Sexual orientation deals with the gender to which an individual is attracted. Thus homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual are valid sexual orientations, while "zoo-sexual" would not be.
If it seems as though this goes against some of my previous views, it does. Your question prompted me to do some further research to find a distinction between two terms that I had never considered separating. Thank you. I appreciate that.
We could however take this in an interesting direction... Is a heterosexual male, just a male with a fetish for human females? While we have invalidated my previous claim that zoophilia could be a sexual orientation, I would be interested to see if anyone could find evidence to prove that sexual orientations themselves are not based in fetishes.
Hey @Trybal, genuinely curious on your opinion of the Tumblr beastiality thread.
@Sophiya though I have a tumblr account that I created a few years ago, I am not a Tumblr user. As far as social media platforms go, I feel it is very difficult to find one with a more poorly designed format.
To answer your question, I was not aware of a bestiality thread existing on Tumblr, and I don't really care to look into it.
Do you preface by saying you like the idea of fucking dogs?
@Alan Pardew, were you to read through the pages of this thread and read my replies to the previous questions that have been posed, I think you could assume that no, I do not preface anything with that. But, since it seems you have failed to look into the content of this thread before posting such a question: No. I do not fuck dogs, therefore I would have no reason to preface with that.
I'm mildly surprised about how
@Familiar Lupine is handling all of the attention that he's receiving from the forum. It reminds me a lot of the incident we had with that one person who thought he was a menstruation pad or something.
If you don't mind me asking, why are you so open with your sexuality? You seem to have a great degree of self-awareness (to a point) and you're certainly more mature than the average Internet denizen, but at the same time you've put that you're a zoophile and stuff like that on the same social media account that you've put selfies and your current location on. You openly call yourself Trybal without any irony in real life. It seems a bit baffling that you're very well-aware of how insane this all is and yet you go along with it anyway. I mean, even disregarding the whole furry shit, there's a lot of issues regarding openly posting your location and stuff on social media regarding privacy and whatnot.
Other than that, you seem like a pretty chill guy. Honestly, all this attention will probably die down because the Farms gets bored when our lolcows don't chimp out.
@Sanae Kochiya You are right in saying that I am open about my sexuality, but it doesn't come close to stopping there. I am open about everything in my life.
You see, being raised the way I was, I had two options: conform and be brainwashed by the toxic religious crowd I was surrounded in, or internalize everything, hide everything that was dear to me, in an attempt to keep from losing myself. If it is not yet apparent, I took the latter route.
When I was finally outed and expelled from the community and family in which I was raised, I vowed to never hide again. In hiding and internalizing it seemed I had only hurt both myself and those I loved, (and had at that point lost). From the moment I left home, I was an open book. Everything was on the table.
I understand the horror many would feel at being open to the degree that I am, but to be honest, I have no reason not to be.
I do nothing illegal, and nothing outside of the morals and ethics of the majority. I may have attractions and interests that lie on the fringe, but when it comes to how I actually live my life, I have nothing to hide. I am open, not out of ignorance, but because it is through my openness that others can see who I really am. You said that I seem like a pretty chill guy. I am. I don't bite, and I don't fuck dogs.
It is said that sex sells, that is perhaps one of the truest statements ever made. I was unsure coming here whether or not it was worth it, whether my opening up and showing you all who I really am would in any way change the way you guys view me. Sex sells, and the true me, the me that wasn't presented in the first two and a half pages of this thread, really isn't quite as taboo or exciting as you may have initially believed.
I think you are right. This will all die down soon, and in time I will just be another regular on this forum, the only memory of this being the 100 or so negative ratings on my profile.
I hope this clarifies things a bit. I am always up to answering any addition questions you have.
'Digital therian'? So you like, believe your real body is stuck in Second Life, right?
@somethingfowl Yeah no, allow me to explain that bit...
Therians and otherkin are in interesting bunch. For the vast majority the belief that they are not 100% human seems to stem from some sort of mental disorder. Although, if 31.5% of the worlds population are Christian and believe that there is some being up in the sky that will send most of the world to hell "because he loves them so much", then perhaps believing that you are part platypus isn't so odd after all.
I consider myself a digital therian. Here is why:
Before this technological age, there were a few distinct parts of a person. There was the physical self, the mental, and some would add a spiritual self or soul. The physical is the self that the world sees, the mental makes of the personality and other associated qualities of the individual, and the spiritual or soul, that needs no explaining. After the digital age began, a third (or fourth, if you count a spiritual self) self appeared. This was the digital self.
Your digital self is your footprint in the internet, your mark left on the digital world. It is every word you have typed on a forum, and every photo or drawing you have ever identified by. It is who the digital world knows you to be. To me the digital self is just as valid as the physical or any other part of me, if not more. The digital should outlive any trace of my physical self. Thus I view it as the most important aspect of my being and equally valid to every other part.
If I believed that my physical self was an animal, I would consider myself a therian. Same with the mental or spiritual parts. For me, my digital self is completely animal. Since my digital self, (a piece of me that I value just as much as any other part) is an animal, I consider myself a digital therian. Once I die and all memory of me is gone, the digital will be all that remains, the animal, the part of me that I loved the most.
Need I say that I am a transhumanist?