dinding555
Tourist
Curious of what brings you all to the zoo world. Why love animals, very interested and curious. Humanize this world for me. 
Yuri1944
Citizen of Zooville
Because animals actually love you. While humans are more likely not gonna do that unless they can get something out of you
That means?Humanize this world for me.
wood_thrush
Tourist
For me I am extremely curious about sex with animals, for a few reasons. Partly, I find the idea of having cross-species sex thrilling and affirming in a few ways. I also am one to push to redraw boundaries for what's considered normal or acceptable if I think that what is normal of acceptable is needlessly limiting, or (what really gets me frustrated) hypocritical. I personally think there are many intersecting double standards on the way our culture treats our fellow nonhuman planetary citizens.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'humanize' however I'll interpret that with my own lens (which may be what you are going for?). From my observation, and I'm certainly not speaking for everyone, it seems that many interactions on here and Zoocadia center around how disillusioned people are with human-human relationships. I can understand this disillusionment - the world can be a starkly unforgiving place to begin with towards men and women, in different ways and some overlapping. This is even before adding such an emotionally charged topic like zoosex into the mix.
In my own experience, growing up assigned male at birth in our communicatively dysfunctional culture, and in an extremely emotionally dysfunctional family, I never learned the skills to pursue intimacy in healthy ways in childhood. I simply withdrew from attempting to, almost completely. I had to learn how to do that in therapy in my 20's, and I'm still learning how to pursue and navigate intimate relationships skillfully. I see symptoms of similar issues with men here and elsewhere with not knowing skills, being overwhelmed with disappointment, fear, anger, and anxiety, not knowing how to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty and then choosing not to engage with humans on intimate or even friendship levels anymore. Let me be the first to say though that I am extrapolating from and universalizing my own experience here. I don't claim to speak for anyone or all men, these are simply connections I am making and I could be off base.
From this though hopefully one can see how *in part* why the idea of love and intimacy with nonhuman animals is so appealing. It was and still is for me. However in my own experience it has shifted from something that had a vice-like grip on me towards something that I'm open to experiencing within a mutually compassionate relationship with an animal. I have decided that I am not going to be intimately involved with any human who refuses to allow me that experience. That's my own boundary I've decided to draw. Yes, it probably limits my pool of human partners, however this is the with the price of being true to myself. I simply want to experience love and sexual intimacy with a nonhuman for the sake of it's own pleasures and differences, and not to avoid intimacy with humans, as I would still like that too.
I did not expect to write so much! The one last thing I will write is that it seems like @Yuri1944 is questioning the capacity for unconditional love from other humans. I think that with a topic like this in the mix, it is harder to find unconditional intimate love from another human being who isn't open to it, and most aren't. But this does not make it impossible. The culture we currently live in seems to idolize and reward self-serving behaviors at others expense. I believe that it is possible to change this too, however, if we are willing to try.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'humanize' however I'll interpret that with my own lens (which may be what you are going for?). From my observation, and I'm certainly not speaking for everyone, it seems that many interactions on here and Zoocadia center around how disillusioned people are with human-human relationships. I can understand this disillusionment - the world can be a starkly unforgiving place to begin with towards men and women, in different ways and some overlapping. This is even before adding such an emotionally charged topic like zoosex into the mix.
In my own experience, growing up assigned male at birth in our communicatively dysfunctional culture, and in an extremely emotionally dysfunctional family, I never learned the skills to pursue intimacy in healthy ways in childhood. I simply withdrew from attempting to, almost completely. I had to learn how to do that in therapy in my 20's, and I'm still learning how to pursue and navigate intimate relationships skillfully. I see symptoms of similar issues with men here and elsewhere with not knowing skills, being overwhelmed with disappointment, fear, anger, and anxiety, not knowing how to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty and then choosing not to engage with humans on intimate or even friendship levels anymore. Let me be the first to say though that I am extrapolating from and universalizing my own experience here. I don't claim to speak for anyone or all men, these are simply connections I am making and I could be off base.
From this though hopefully one can see how *in part* why the idea of love and intimacy with nonhuman animals is so appealing. It was and still is for me. However in my own experience it has shifted from something that had a vice-like grip on me towards something that I'm open to experiencing within a mutually compassionate relationship with an animal. I have decided that I am not going to be intimately involved with any human who refuses to allow me that experience. That's my own boundary I've decided to draw. Yes, it probably limits my pool of human partners, however this is the with the price of being true to myself. I simply want to experience love and sexual intimacy with a nonhuman for the sake of it's own pleasures and differences, and not to avoid intimacy with humans, as I would still like that too.
I did not expect to write so much! The one last thing I will write is that it seems like @Yuri1944 is questioning the capacity for unconditional love from other humans. I think that with a topic like this in the mix, it is harder to find unconditional intimate love from another human being who isn't open to it, and most aren't. But this does not make it impossible. The culture we currently live in seems to idolize and reward self-serving behaviors at others expense. I believe that it is possible to change this too, however, if we are willing to try.
MarlinCatch3
Zooville Settler
I feel like it must be a deep insecurity towards people. I’m not zoo but speaking for my interest in seeing a woman choose a dog as a mate I think it comes from an insecurity towards women.