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Is being a furry just cosplay or is it an identity?

For some it is cosplay, for some it is literally a part of their soul for some it is just the yiff.
 
For me is mostly like cosplaying, but it goes a little deeper. Being also a zoo it just makes me a little happy to be inside a fursuit, but i don't actually see it as a sexual thing (absolutely no lewd talk or sex while fursuiting!).
I have known people who uses it as a safe space to interact with other people with the anonimity being in fursuit provides, wich is a great way of showing yourself openly to the world and fully interacting with it if you are usually an introvert person (i kind of relate to this group since i'm usually shy). Other guys are homosexual, and maybe (just my oppinion) they use fursuit to both being openly homo and still keep it as a secret at the same time, if you know what i mean. Other people just have their own alter ego embedded on the fursuit and become a totally different person when they are dressed up... Every person has its own reasons to be a part of it, but mostly... It is usually lots of fun!!
 
It's a hobby, everyone has their own reasons and opinions about it. Compare Fursuiting to Woodworking. You can be into woodworking for making BDSM gear and sex toys, but that isn't the norm. You don't even need to DO woodworking to be INTO it. You don't need a fursuit or even a fursona to be a furry. You like drawings of animals? Furry.

For Furries with suits, it could be considered Cosplaying for fun, entertainment or even escapism. Some people are furries just for the very open LGBTQ+ community. The porn is a bonus, but there is porn of everything, not just furries.
 
Yep, I agree with all. For some its just fascination and sexual arousal, for some its an escape, for some its part of their identity, and for some real life is the masquerade.
 
Suiting is a pretty minor part of being furry even among furries I know who have suits, which isn’t many. I see it as a subculture that’s very tied into pansexuality, polyamory, kink, and a focus on consent over sexual norms. It’s also a bit like a social club with no corporate control or centralized hierarchy. I feel like we came into it for the cute animals and accidentally built a global community.
 
I don't understand it. Everytime I try to understand it all i can think of it's a care bear fetish. I understand if someone doesn't get my love of horses. But furry is a whole different level.
 
MareMan1 said:
I don't understand it. Everytime I try to understand it all i can think of it's a care bear fetish. I understand if someone doesn't get my love of horses. But furry is a whole different level.
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Furry is so varied that understanding it as a singular thing isn’t that useful, if not impossible. You’ll have better luck talking directly to furries and learning what they get out of it.
 
It can definitely be either, depending on the person. My identity as a furry is a lot about developing my idealized self, my connection dogs and to nature. But at the same time, I know people who just made up a random fursona, called it theirs, and now they're furries. Both are perfectly fine and valid. We all end up in the fandom in different ways.
 
Yeah furry on it's own is a very general term. Some people see furry as merely someone who is excessively hairy, or happens to like animals period. But depending on who you ask, different people will have different ideas of the identity. You also have those types who deny being furry as they don't like the "culture" but love anthro art and drawings cause they like how the characters look. It's an interesting study really, but ultimately it's what you make of it.

I personally prefer to see myself as the character in my avatar, my own Kao Nocturatzu. It kind of feels more like I can truly be myself and my IRL human form is just a mask I wear while living on earth. I usually keep those thoughts to myself as they're personal to me, but it does help a lot with making me feel better about life and not feeling restricted or afraid of social norms. Hehe most of my coworkers at my jobs and my parents kept thinking I was trying to be a pokemon. XD but they all just like seeing me happy.
 
I don't have any expert opinion but I think it depends.
It can be an identity for some and it can also just be a hobby for some.

For me it ended up being an identity. I was a lonely, shy anxious kiddo way back when confused about my zoophilia (still confused please help haha) and when I realized that society really frowned on bestiality I unconsciously turned to furry porn and pokemon because it seemed purely fantasy.

I also really liked roleplaying as a Shinx because it felt nice to cuddle with people, be sexual, be given nice attention for being cute haha.

I realize now that I attached way too much of my personality to the whole Shinx thing and it started to affect how I behaved in day to day life.

I'm happy to say I have an identity totally separate from the furry stuff to where it's just a kink to me now. But now I'm back here reconciling with the reality that for like.. more than a decade or so, I was hiding my zoophilic instincts from myself by using furry porn as a "morally acceptable" substitute.

Lots to unpack here but thanks for making a thread to share in <3
 
For myself it's just a hobby. Although I have a fursuit of my own, I don't wear it often and mostly just wanted one for photoshoots or to cuddle my friends, haha.

I'm not super active in the fandom and to be honest I'm not very open about being in the fandom. I really like the art and I joined it because I thought of having an anthropomorphic animal that looks like you to be an interesting concept.

On the other hand, I know people in the fandom who see it as a lifestyle. All their clothing is furry themed, they have furry art all over their room/house/car, they only date/associate with other furries, and the fandom is one of the only things they talk about.

That being said, overall it is a pretty good community and I like it for what it is. People for the most part really care about each other and I have witnessed members of it go above and beyond to help each other. I have met some great people through the fandom, but the only issue I have is that there is no accountability and a lot of people in the fandom don't really take care of themselves. (In terms of their appearance.)
 
It's a fandom so it encompasses stuff like cosplay, fanart, and various genres of porn, but like other people said a fandom or a hobby can be/become an identity or a part of an identity to varying degrees. it also happens with any other kind of media: cartoons, gaming, your favorite music genre. All of that is part of the whole of who you are, and how much it is is up to you like anything else.
 
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