Then I ended up at a place that I realized was more about sex with things that look like actual animals than about anthropomorphic animals. It’s pretty weird that that was a choice if you think about it- why not a goblin or a horse or a china doll or something too? I had never heard of furries till I came here to SL, I thought it was a pretty cool avatar choice, but I had no idea about the subculture either. Even my furry friends get a little creeped out by the more “into it” furrs, which is why I was surprised BB was hooked up with some sort of anthro wolf.Ī furry avatar isn’t an option when you join SL anymore, so I was thinking that if nothing else comes of this research, I can report that based on the number of them seen at clubs this weekend, the furry herd seems healthy. Pixel sex is not an option for them because by the time they are done dressing they’re covered in dozens of carefully adjusted prims and taking them all off only to have to put them on again later is too much work for a simple romp on the poseballs. My friends are like furry-light they love the avatars and spend hours adjusting prims and getting their outfits on straight. I do think some furries can be pretty strange and are probably in need of some help, but I could also say the same thing about Republicans, Catholics, and fans of Eminem. I have a couple of furry friends, and a couple of friends who are usually human but who sometimes bust out furry avatars. This was not my first rodeo for going to furry clubs. I was keeping my eye out for humans and at the first several spots I hit there were none.
I went to a few clubs, all of which had a respectable number of avatars there. The furry population seems pretty healthy. I didn’t want to grill BB with her boyfriend right there, and they were stuck to each other like glue for the next several hours so I went out to a few furry hangouts to get a sense of what’s going on in the world of furries. I didn’t know what the story would be, but I knew “WTF? My Friend is Dating a Furry” would be good enough for Jerry Springer, so I figured it would be a start. I IM’d her “WTF?” and she laughed and this story was born. Now don’t get me wrong, I like furries, but I had never thought about actually dating one. She popped in and she was with a furry and we’re all like WTF?Įvery girl <3 horses - but furries? WTF?
So the other day my friend BB, and by the way I’ve changed everyone’s name in this whole story, IM'd me and said she wanted to drop by and she had her new boyfriend with her. Interspecies Intermingling on Upswing in Second Life