Anthrogasm Magazine

2011-01-05T10:00:06Z

Bassinium:

2009-05-17T11:30:11Z

Bassinium: Created page with 'Anthrogasm Magazine is furry publication created for the furry community within Secondlife. It is furrotica SL-zine that features machima still images of furs in a virtua...'

Anthrogasm Magazine is furry publication created for the furry community within [[Secondlife]]. It is [[furrotica]] SL-zine that features machima still images of furs in a virtual environment. The original release features straight sexual situations but has since expanded into two sub releases called "editions" that with gay and lesbian content.

* '''Address''': http://www.anthrogasm.com
* '''Founder''': [[Basinium Dapto]] aka "Bass"
* '''Active''': December 2006 - Present

== History ==

=== Background and Inspiration ===
In summer of 2005, [[Basinium]] was inspired by his then girlfriend, Ziz Gritzi, to create a collection of nude photographs of her for their private consumption. Soon their activity began to include girls from Basinium's Brood that captured their [[impregnation]] play including the progression of the pregnancies within the specialized [[roleplay]] group. As photo taking became a more common part of roleplay within Basinium's Brood, the popularity of the pictures lead to a steady distribution. With acclaim from sources outside of the [[roleplay group]], demand for more pictures that featured more than impregnation play, giving Basinium the urge to do more than what was taking place within his Brood.

=== Early Influence ===
In late 2006 [[Basinium]] met [[Zuffy Fura]], the owner and founder of the [[PlayPony]], and spoke of his desire to create a publication that would feature photographic erotica paired with story content. He expressed that Anthrogasm was to be a unique publication that was to be more than simple pornography that was believed to be damaging to the furry community. Basinium believed this to be an opportunity to aid partner and sexual relationships though knowledge of sexual fetish. The story content was meant to separate Anthrogasm from the competition and allow the reader to experience a variety of sexual situations.

=== Inception ===
In the summer of 2006,[[Zuffy Frua]] gave [[Basinium]] the script that he wrote for [[PlayPony]] which allowed the compiling and viewing of photographs within SecondLife. With this aid, the First Issue of Anthrogasm Magazine was released soon after December 20th 2006.

== Goals ==

The creation of Anthrogasm was influenced by a desire to display erotic situations that showcased a particular fetish that allowed readers to expose themselves to something new. A major goal of Anthrogasm was to allow for an understanding of sexuality. With this knowledge furs could then find new enjoyments and learn that of their partners. The founder's belief that sexual understanding allows for couples, sexual partners and mated furs to maintain healthier relationships is an underlying theme that pervades much of Anthrogasm's featured content.

Those to be featured in a release are carefully chosen by their interests with a huge attempt to cast Players who enjoy the content of a scene. It is important to the founder that Players enjoy their place in a scene as he believes that those who understand and enjoy the scene they are apart of will provide feedback that will enrich the content of the release by firsthand knowledge.

In the tradition of furry SL-zines, Anthrogasm's goal was to serve the SL furry community and less about running a successful SL business.

== Content ==
Releases are divided up by type of content and referred to as "segments."

=== Themes ===
Each issue of the original Anthrogasm Magazine features a theme that each segment is connected to in some way. This theme does not necessarily have any relation to the fetish content featured in an action scene, but is a way to ground the near limitless storyline possiblities of each scene.

=== Founder's Note ===
In the first pages of each release the founder speaks on the goal of particular Issue or Edition to allow the reader to consider the content of the scenes. With one of the major goals of Anthrogasm being to allow understanding of fetishes, this note is meant to give the reader a more analytical mindset in which to experience content at a deeper level.

=== Interview ===
An interview appears in every Anthrogasm Issue and Edition to date and is central to the concept.
==== Nude Pictorial ====
The nude pictorial interview is considered to be the staple of Furrotica SL-zines and is featured in many of the early Issues.
==== Erotic Housing ====
The Erotic Housing shoot was meant to make a connection with the SL furry community and allow furs to show off their well groomed homes. Unique and original homes and owners are the focus of the Erotic Housing section.
==== Couples Shoot ====
Though it is considered improper to feature couples in a real relationship in pornographic work, Anthrogasm seeks to reach a depth in the reader's discovery of new sexual interests. The interviewing of couples allows readers to learn the sexuality of real furs though interview and in some cases sex.

=== Role-Play Action Scene ===
As a relatively new segment to the SL-zine, the Role-Play Action Scene features real intercourse and the role play text of furries in SL. The exposure of the reader to real sex can allow for understanding that a planned scene may not.

=== Action Scene ===
As the backbone of all releases, the Action Scene features sex that follows one or more fetishes. Most scenes are shot on a custom made set created by builders in SL, either freelance or Anthrogasm Staff Engineers. The scenes are orchestrated by a Director, almost always the founder, who oversees the production process of a scene to ensure that the content is meaningful and follows the respective release. Anthrogasm Players are directed to poses to be photographed. The resulting pictures are produced and placed alongside a story written by a member of the Anthrogasm Writing Department, though these stories are almost always written by the founder.

== Releases ==

=== Anthrogasm ===
The original Anthrogasm release that features strictly straight content referred to as "Anthrogasm." Releases of the original are referred to as issues. After two successful releases of the first version of the SL-zine, there was a surprise announcement of the two sub-Editions followed three days later by the release of Issue Three and the new First Editions.

There is controversy over the timing and influence of the sub-Editions. It is believed by some that the creation and surprise release of the sub-Editions was a plot to damage the leading furry erotica publication, Playfoxx, that was patronized by gay furs. The founder maintains that the release of the sub-Editions was to expand the reader base and allow the creation of Anthrogasm scenes for gay and lesbian furs with fetishes that are explicitly homosexual.

=== Single Release Series(SRS)===
The goal of Anthrogasm was to allow exploration of sexual situations and the fetishes that they supported. The dividing of the magazine releases by orientation was meant to prevent furs from purchasing content that they did not enjoy. There were some fetishes and situations that were too extreme for the pages of Anthrogasm and their following too specific. The Extreme Edition was the first remedy to this problem but was later scrapped for the Single Release Series concept.

Each Single Release Series features a fetish that may not support a wide audience or does not meet well with themes. It is meant to allow the quick release of one or two scenes and an interview in lieu of feature within a full issue of Anthrogasm.

=== Gay Edition ===
Male homosexual content is featured in the Gay Edition of Anthrogasm Magazine.

=== Lezzie Edition ===
Female homosexual content is featured in the Lezzie Edition of Anthrogasm Magazine. It is being considered that the title of the Lezzie Edition be changed to the "Lesbian Edition" due to controversy over the use of what many consider an epithet. The founder maintains that the title was chosen to exclude the use of the word "lesbian" which he believed may be offensive to the lesbian community as the Edition is not a community publication, opting for the slang version as a way of lightening the word.