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Mainstream press accounts tend to portray furries as sexual fetishists united by a common interest in sex in animal costumes. But survey evidence suggests a lot of these stereotypes are wrong very few furries think sex in animal costumes is a good idea, for instance. Fur-suiters on parade at Anthrocon Note that most of the people on the convention floor aren't suited. Douglas Muth. Fur-suiting and the furry community tend to be conflated in the popular press, but research by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project, which studies the furry fandom, suggests fur-suiters are a minority of that community.
A survey found that only A survey found that tails are the most commonly owned fur-suit component , with Only 13 percent reported owning a full suit, while No, though, like with any other fan interest video games, comics, etc. Furries are typically subject to media portrayals that overemphasize the sexual aspect of the fandom, such as this bit from 30 Rock:. For one thing, only a small minority of furries own full fur suits. A survey at Furry Fiesta found that But they also reported that most of their involvement in the fandom was non-sexual.
Men reported spending 34 percent of their online roleplaying time on sexual content, and women reported spending only Nearly half of male furries, and a large majority of women, reported that sexual content played little or no role in their introduction to the fandom:. International Anthropomorphic Research Project. In the broadest sense, a furry is someone with an interest in anthropomorphized animals β that is, animals who have been given human characteristics, like an ability to talk or walk on their hind legs.
A fursona inspired by The Lion King Nala Sharon Roberts, Dr. Stephen Reysen, and Dr. Kathy Gerbasi. Crafting a fursona involves picking an animal β real or mythical β to represent yourself as, or, less commonly, designing a new mythical animal for yourself.
