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Gazelle (Zootopia)

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Gazelle (Zootopia)

2017-12-15T19:22:22Z

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Pornography

2016-08-16T21:37:00Z

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[[File:Peep Show Window.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Adult sex aids and vestments]]
'''Pornography''' (Ancient Greek, noun: '''πόρνηγράφεινία''' [pornēgrapheinia]; euphemisms: '''Adult/Mature work/media''', colloquialisms: '''Porno''' or '''Porn'''), also known as '''[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pron Pron/Pr0n]''' or '''[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=p0rn P0rn]''', is a term commonly used to describe [[sex]]ually explicit imagery in [[artwork]], [[photography]], [[film]], and [[writing]].

In its original Greek definition it meant to "write about [[W:prostitute|harlots]]" ('''πορνογράφος''', "pornographos" in the Greek [[author]] [[W:Athenaeus|Athenaeus]]'s ''[[W:Deipnosophists|Deipnosophists]]'' in the early third century [[W:Anno Domini|AD]]). The word was first used in the [[W:English language in England|British English language]] in [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pornography&allowed_in_frame=0 1843].

== Scope ==

Various groups within worldwide societies have considered depictions of any sexual nature "immoral", labeling thus "pornographic", and have attempted to have them suppressed under "obscenity" and other laws (e.g. the 1973 [[W:U.S. Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]]'s "[[W:Miller test|Miller test]]" and/or [[W:U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese|U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese]]'s 1986 "[[W:Meese Report|Meese Report]]") with varying degrees of success.

Such "pornographic" works have also often been subject to [[W:censorship|censorship]] and other legal restraints to publication, display or possession. Such grounds and even the definition of pornography have differed in various [[W:Pornography by region|historical, cultural, and national contexts]].<ref>[H. Mongomery Hyde (1964) A History of Pornography: 1–26.]</ref>

== Pornography and furry ==
[[File:Pr0nKitty.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Generic Adult (Porn) furry media Art by '''BMG''']]
Within the [[furry fandom]], most explicit artistic or written depictions of sexual acts are considered "furry pornography".{{who}}{{fact}} Images or descriptions of a single or groups of [[furry]]/[[anthropomorphic]] [[character]]s not explicitly engaging in sex acts but prominently displaying [[genitalia|sexual organ]]s (especially in a state of arousal) are also often considered porn.{{who}}{{fact}}

Pornography featuring furry characters may be called '''furry porn''', '''furry adult art''', and/or '''[[yiff]] art'''. Another common term is '''Furotica''', a [[W:portmanteau|portmanteau]] [[furspeech]] term of the words '''furry''' and [[W:erotica|erotica]].

A wide variety of free online furry art and writing archives offer the option to upload and display pornographic art and stories to the public, such as [[Fur Affinity]], [[Inkbunny]], [[SoFurry]], [[Weasyl]], [[VCL]]. Most furry [[W:Pay-site|pay-sites]] are exclusively catered to such media.

Some [[image board]], such as [[U-18Chan]], [[Fchan]] and [[PlayMouse]], are specifically intended for the showcasing of "furry porn."

=== Propagation ===

Often, members of the fandom and [[critic]]s alike speculate that adult content makes up the majority of the fandom.{{cn}} The opposite point of view, voiced particularly in the [[2 Sense]] shows, claims that this is caused by the [[W:cognitive bias|cognitive bias]]: since pornography is not [[W:taboo|tabooed]] in the [[furry community]], its relative percentage may be even smaller than in the [[mundane]] world, but the fact that it gets more exposure makes it appear to be a larger chunk.{{fact}}

No scientifically credible estimates of the exact ratio of pornographic content to family friendly content in the furry community exist to date. A rough estimate from [[convention]]s which allow adult content in such activities as [[art show]]s and [[charity auction]]s and auction sites such as [[FurBid-SF]] suggest a proportion of 25-40%, with a higher proportion of mature [[:Category:Publications|publications]] and 2D artwork than sculpture and other constructed art.{{fact}}

[[Fur Affinity]], arguably the largest furry art site, published monthly statistics up until 2009 ([http://community.livejournal.com FA LiveJournal]) which consistently showed clean artwork outnumbered pornographic artwork by orders of magnitude.{{cn}}

=== Legality ===

There are no mainstream laws<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/22/six_second_clip/ theregister.co.uk, "Man could face prison over six second 'extreme porn' clip"]</ref> which specifically reference pornography containing anthropomorphic characters at this time, be it characters of adult or [[Cub#Legal issues regarding cub media|minor (cub)]] age. Furry websites, [[forum]]s, groups and publications may enact them independently within the fandom.<ref>[http://help.furaffinity.net/article/AA-00203/8/Terms-of-Service-TOS.html Fur Affinity]'s Terms Of Service (TOS). Retrieved July 6, 2014.</ref>

== Sexuality and content ==
=== Orientation ===

Furry pornography is often [[stereotype]]d as [[homosexual]] in nature.{{fact}} This is not always the case, though the percentage of [[bisexual]] or homosexual furries appears to be higher than that in the general population.{{fact}} A detailed survey<ref>[http://www.tevildo.com/FAEStatistics.htm Tevildo's "fur.artwork.erotica" Statistics Page]</ref> by [[Tevildo]] of postings to the [[Furrynet|fur.artwork.erotica]] newsgroup between April and December 2001 revealed 45.6% of pictures to be "gay" themed and 48.9% to be "straight" ([[W:heterosexual|heterosexual]]) themed.

=== Species ===

Furry pornography commonly depicts [[species]] popular among the furry fandom, as many furry porn artists enjoy depicting their own personal [[fursona]]s in sexual activity,{{fact}} either with a fantasy mate or the fursona of a person to whom they are attracted in real life. Some pornographic artists draw generic characters as well, though these are usually species chosen for their sexual characteristics or stereotyped promiscuity, such as [[fox]]es, [[wolves]], and [[horse]]s.{{clarify}}{{fact}}

=== Subject ===

[[Fetish]] imagery catering to various [[:Category:Paraphilias|paraphilias]] seems to appear{{clarify}} with significant frequency in furry porn. [[BDSM]], [[Vorarephilia|vore]], [[pregfur|pregnancy fetish]], [[fursuit sex|costume play]], [[babyfur|infantilism]], [[inflatophilia|inflation]], [[W:rape fantasy|rape fantasy]], and other fetishes are often depicted in furry pornography, with most of the characters engaging in these fetishes are being invariably [[anthropomorphic]] animals.

[[Transformation]], in which humans turn into animals or furries transform into a different type of furry, is also popular in furry porn and regular furry art alike. Mental control or transformation permanence may be established through [[W:Orgasm|orgasm]].<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2580187/ The Island Guardians, Page 6] - [[Faithry]] (28 July 2009)</ref><ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6295509 Enduring Technologies: R.A.I.S. - 6 of 14] [NSFW] — [[Endium]] (11 August 2011)</ref><ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7025231/ Sketch by Classified-Crud: Competitive Vibes WITH STORY!] - [[Jaki-Kun]] (13 December 2011)</ref>

Most of these fetishes are not specific to the furry fandom, but merely furry expressions of them. While fetish porn is frequently attested to be unusually common in furry fandom — one of the complaints of the former [[critic]] [[Burned Furs]] was its perceived popularity{{Clarify}}{{fact}} — it is, again, impossible to obtain a precise percentage of fetish pornography compared to other forms of furry pornography.

== Mainstream views ==

Furry erotica is not thought well of by some outside the fandom itself. In [[The Geek Hierarchy]], Erotic Furries (sic) are ranked just below Furries as a whole, and just above "[[Star Trek]] [[fanfic]], written as furry erotica, with Kirk as an ocelot (or something), and the author being the star and his own personal furry as well."{{cn}}

== References ==
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== See also ==

* [[W:Pornography|Pornography]] on [[Wikipedia]]

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Anakuro

2016-07-10T22:41:15Z

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| title = Anakuro
| image = [[Image:AKchibiBanner.jpg]]
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| author = [[Ana]] and [[Kuro]]
| url = http://www.anakuro.com/
| status = Every other Thursday
| began = 7 July 2008
| ended = Hiatus? Not updated on the site in awhile.
| genre = Comedy, Drama, Real Life, Anthropomorphic
| rating = {{rating-14-button2}}
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'''''Anakuro''''' is a [[webcomic]] created by [[furry artist]] [[Ana]] and her husband [[Kuro]]. It is also the preferred moniker of [[Ana]], the artist of the strip. The [[Wikipedia:Slice of life story|slice-of-life]] comic follows the titular characters through events that sometimes parallel the lives of its creators, and takes place in a world populated by [[anthropomorphic]] animals whose species reflect their ethnicities.

Strips are presented in greyscale. Currently the comic seems to be on hiatus.

==Characters==

====Main characters====

[[Image:AnaThumb.jpg|left|150px|Ana]]'''Anastacia “Ana” Maria Hernández-Velázquez'''
*Ana is a 23-year-old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_lynx Iberian Lynx] who currently lives with Kuro in [[Wikipedia:Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]. Born in [[Wikipedia:Madrid|Madrid]], she is fluent in both Spanish and English. She works as a graphics designer and freelance artist, and loves cookie dough, caffeine, and half-Japanese wolf boys. She is engaged to Kuro.

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[[Image:KuroThumb.jpg|left|150px|Kuro]]'''Kuro Mori'''

*Kuro is a 25-year-old [[Wikipedia:Kai Ken|Kai Ken]]/[[gray wolf]] [[Wikipedia:hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] who works in Chicago as a jack-of-all-trades of sorts, repairing computers at Ana's design firm and doing other odd jobs. He was born to a Japanese father and American mother in [[Wikipedia:Osaka|Osaka, Japan]], where he was ridiculed and ostracized for being [[Wikipedia:multiracial|multiracial]]. He later moved to Spain where he eventually met Ana. He is best described as "mopey," though Ana has managed on several occasions to make him crack a smile.

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====Secondary characters====
[[Image:BeccaThumb.jpg|left|150px|Becca]]
;Becca Takamura
*Becca is a short, stocky Japanese [[Wikipedia:raccoon dog|raccoon dog]] and Ana's coworker and friend. She is 24 years old. As an American-born [[tanuki]] surrounded by raccoons, she is quite defensive of her species and will not tolerate being misidentified. Becca can be a bit boisterous and outspoken, but she has a kind heart and good intentions.

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;Shiroji Mori
*Shiroji is Kuro's younger brother. He is much more upbeat and happy than his dour older sibling, possibly because he was too young to be affected by his mother's presumed death.

==External links==
*[http://www.anakuro.com Anakuro.com homepage]
*[http://bandanamanstudios.com/forum/index.php The Anakuro Forum]
*[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/anakuro/ Ana] on [[Fur Affinity]]
*[https://inkbunny.net/Anakuro Ana] on [[Inkbunny]]
*[http://anacita.deviantart.com/ Ana] on [[deviantART]]
*[http://kuro-mori.deviantart.com/ Kuro] on [[deviantART]]
*[https://twitter.com/anakurocomic Anakuro] on [[Twitter]]
*[http://www.formspring.me/Anakuro Anakuro] on [[Wikipedia:Formspring|Formspring]]

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Razor (Finland)

2015-09-08T01:02:18Z

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[[File:Razor260.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Razor the Khajiit]]
[[File:RazorSuit2.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Razor in fursuit]]
'''Razor''' (real name '''Mikko'''; born April 4, 1989)<ref>[http://yammu.deviantart.com/ Razor's profile] on [[deviantART]]. Retrieved October 22, 2013.</ref> is [[fursuiter]] and [[writer]] who lives in [[wikipedia:Oulu|Oulu]], [[wikipedia:Finland|Finland]]. He is also known as '''Razor260''', and '''Yammu''' on [[deviantART]] and [[Fur Affinity]].

== Fursona ==
Razor's [[fursona]] is a [[Khajiit]], a sub[[human]] [[feline]] race from ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' game series. He is 185cm (6ft 1") tall and weighs 89kg (196.2 lbs). He is muscular and has dark fur, with lighter-coloured fur on his front and black spots around his body.

Razor has yellow [[cat]]-like eyes, and some kind of black tribal mark on his head. He has three golden earrings in each ear.

== Activities ==
Razor joined the [[furry fandom]] at the beginning of 2013. His hobbies include sports and Japanese martial arts.

An occasional writer, he posts his stories on his Fur Affinity account.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Contributor|Razor (Khajiit)}}
* [https://twitter.com/Khajiit_Razor Razor] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/yammu Yammu (Razor)] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://yammu.deviantart.com/ Yammu (Razor)] on [[deviantART]]

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Category:Mature terms

2015-08-04T23:17:34Z

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Moyomongoose

2015-08-04T22:48:36Z

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Zoophilia

2015-04-11T17:13:09Z

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'''Zoophilia''' is a technical term for the [[sexual]] attraction of [[humans]] to [[feral (term)|feral]] [[animal]]s.

It has been increasingly used in [[W:Mainstream|popular]] and [[furry culture]] as an alternative to the term [[bestiality]], because it stresses orientation over acts, and is usually regarded as less prejudicial. (For more information on the context and use of the techical term, see: [[Paraphilia]].)

It is common misconception that [[furries]] are lovers of animals, and (by extension) zoophiles. It is true that a significant proportion of [[Sexual|erotic]] [[furry artwork]] and stories involve beings with animal characteristics having sex with each other, or with humans, but it should be noted that the participants are usually [[anthropomorphic]] beings.

While some furries are zoophiles, the two terms are not synonymous. Most furries do not have any sexual interest in animals in real life, though some may roleplay otherwise in a fantasy scenario.

==Self-Identified Zoophiles versus bestiality==
[[File:Zetapin.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A Zeta pin, used in public by some zoophiles]]
Most people who identify themselves as zoophiles distinguish between zoophilia and bestiality. Though some zoophiles choose to engage in sexual contact with their animal companions, not all do. Zoophiles state that they are lovers of animals, and that sexual contact, when it is done, is an extension of a deeper emotional and perhaps spiritual relationship with the animal, similar in character to the sexual expression between human companions.

They sometimes refer to those who have sexual contact with animals without emotional bonds as "beasties," or, more often, "rapists." Zoophiles may draw attention to the distinction between bestiality (an act), and Zoophilia (a sexuality), and to the view that those who have sexual contact with animals without an emotional connection are not zoophiles.

Some self-identified zoophiles also use the term to refer to anyone with the kind of emotional bonds they stress as distinguishing them from bestialists, including those who have no sexual contact with or interest in animals.

An analysis of data from the [[Furry Survey|Furry Survey]] suggests that one in six furries self identify as zoophiles<ref>http://adjectivespecies.com/2012/02/06/zoophilia-in-the-furry-community/</ref>.

==ZooWiki==
[[File:ZooWiki.png|right|ZooWiki]]
'''ZooWiki''' was a [[Wikipedia:wiki|wiki]] for the German [[zoophile]] community. It was created on May 23, 2005, by [[Wolfie (Germany)|Wolfie]]. It had 89 articles as of October 2006, on topics such as literature, authors, philosophy, events, vendors, anatomy and general trivia. ZooWiki's policies specified that it should not contain explicit or illegal content. ZooWiki was at http://zoowiki.zetapin.de/ (defunct by July 2012)

== References ==
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==See also==

* [[W:Zoophilia|Zoophilia]] on Wikipedia
* [[Bestiality]]
* [[Zetacon]]

== External links ==

* [http://www.zeta-verein.de/en/ ZETA] official website
* ''[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex.bestiality/browse_frm/thread/b26e8acbd087f127 Zoophilia and Your Health]'' (posted on [[alt.sex.bestiality]])
* [http://www.zoophilia.net/ Zoophilia & Beastiality Information Articles]
* [http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/animal_cruelty/bestiality.php Pet Abuse]
* [http://adjectivespecies.com/2012/02/06/zoophilia-in-the-furry-community/ Zoophilia in the furry community (AdjectiveSpecies)]

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The Silver Circle

2014-09-11T20:03:44Z

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[[File:TheSilverCircleCover.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cover of ''The Silver Circle''.]]
'''''The Silver Circle''''' is a novel by [[Kyell Gold]]. It was published by [[FurPlanet]] in June, 2012.<ref name="SilverCircleFP">[http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=574 ''The Silver Circle''] on [[FurPlanet]]. Retrieved August 22, 2014.</ref>

''The Silver Circle'' is rated NC-17 for sexual situations. Its features cover [[art]] by [[Kamui]].<ref name="SilverCircleFP"/>

==Plot==
The synopsis of ''The Silver Circle'' reads:<ref name="SilverCircleFP"/>
{{q|Valerie is on vacation after a messy divorce leads to a breakdown at work, and despite the warnings of [[wolves]] around the upstate New York lake she's visiting, she's determined to relax. Her vacation turns more stressful than her life when she happens upon a man with his throat ripped out, and a young man stumbling away from the scene with an arrow in his side. The young man's handsome features and desperate need overcome her New York City don't-get-involved sense, and she soon finds herself caught between a hunter and his prey.

The hunter insists that the man he's hunting is not just a criminal, but a werewolf. Valerie thinks that's the craziest thing she's ever heard--until she realizes that he might be right.}}

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Winter Games

2014-09-11T20:01:03Z

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[[File:WinterGamesCover.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cover of ''Winter Games''.]]
'''''Winter Games''''' is a novella by [[Kyell Gold]]. It was published by [[FurPlanet]] in September, 2012.<ref name="WinterGamesFP">[http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=600 ''Winter Games''] on [[FurPlanet]]. Retrieved August 22, 2014.</ref>

''Winter Games'' is rated NC-17 for graphic sexual situations. Its cover [[art]] and interior illustrations are by [[Sabretoothed Ermine]].<ref name="WinterGamesFP"/>

==Plot==
The synopsis of ''Winter Games'' reads:<ref name="WinterGamesFP"/>
{{q|Sierra Snowpaw is just at the Lonnegan Ski Resort looking for a good time. You can trust him. If he doesn't talk a lot about his past, well, a lot of guys have done things they'd rather forget. A lot of guys have been through things they'd rather forget, too.

He's so nice that it isn’t that weird when he asks about some of the other guests. Not like a cop, though, or a Fed—well, okay. Maybe a little like that one guy from that movie. Maybe he's off-duty, settling a score on his own time.

Or maybe he's the guy on the run. Come to think of it, he looks around corners like someone's after him, too. But you know, some guys are chased by nothing more than the ghosts of their past...}}

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Encyclopaedia of Unusual Sex Practices

2014-09-11T19:10:19Z

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'''''The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices''''' is a reference book written by [[Brenda Love]], first published in 1992, and having since had various republications. The book describes a huge number of [[Human sexual behavior|human sexual practices]], many of which are either uncommon or regarded as taboo in many cultures. Many of the topics covered are related to [[paraphilia]] of various kinds. The book includes over 700 entries and 150 [[illustrations]].

''The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices'' is the only mainstream reference available on many of these topics. It has also been published in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[French language|French]].

The book contains an entry on "Anthropomorphic cartoons". The entry reads:

<blockquote>"Anthropomorphism (anthropos: human, morphosis: change of form) means attributing human characteristics to other entities, particularly animals. The sexual aspect of anthropomorphism involves cartoon characters that are part animal, object, etc., and part human. These are portrayed in print as engaging in sexual activity with each other. One reason for the popularity of these cartoons in the United States and Europe is that, although it is illegal to depict humans in photographs of zoophilia, sadism, homosexuality or other activities, it is legal for cartoon characters to be shown engaging in these activities. Another advantage of using cartoons is that one is able to draw scenes that would be physically impossible for humans to perform.

Two magazines featuring such cartoons are titled ''[[FurNography]]'' and ''[[FurVersion]]''"<ref>"Anthropomorphic cartoons", The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices'' by Brenda Love. Accessed April 13, 2008.</ref></blockquote>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.odd-sex.com/default.htm Online version]

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I like dressing up as a bear during sex

2014-09-11T19:09:41Z

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'''''I like dressing up as a bear during sex''''' is the title of a piece published in ''[[Wikipedia:The Times|The Times]]''' sex advice column ''Body & Soul'' on 8 December 2007.<ref>''[http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3016114.ece I like dressing up as a bear during sex]'' - [[Wikipedia:The Times|The Times]], ''Body & Soul'' (8 December 2007)</ref>

The piece consisted of the response of two people to the question of a self-professed "[[furry]]" recently arrived from America: should he reveal his interest in having sex in costume with his new girlfriend?

The quotation of the question was not entirely accurate - while it stated that the fan had come from [[Wikipedia:New York|New York]] and liked [[Wikipedia:Yogi Bear|Yogi Bear]], ''Times'' personnel later admitted that the individual's original location and chosen outfit had been changed to protect their identity.<ref name="LJ">''[http://community.livejournal.com/furrymedia/92315.html Two UK sex columnists give their advice to a US fur]'' - [[GreenReaper]], {{lj-comm|furrymedia}} (9 December 2007)</ref> No notice of this change was given in the piece.

== Opinions ==

The two responses were made by:
*[[Wikipedia:Thomas Stuttaford|Dr. Thomas Stuttaford]], a medical columnist for ''The Times'' and former [[Wikipedia:Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP who has written books on topics from general medical advice to the leather fetish, and "spent many years working in a [[Wikipedia:genitourinary|genitourinary]] clinic", and
*Suzi Godson, author of sexual advice manuals ''The Sex Book'' and ''The Body Bible''.

=== Dr. Stuttaford ===

Dr. Stuttaford's opinion was highly critical. He stated that it was "most unlikely" that the questioner's girlfriend would wish to "spend her Saturday nights sweltering in a [[bear (species)|bear]] suit" or "take part in the sex games enjoyed by your furry friends", referring to [[scritch]]ing and [[furpile]]s as examples of sexual behaviour. [[Yiff]]ing was brought up, and he asserted that "in the list of weird fetishes, furry behaviour is in the championship – if not the premier – league." According to him, the questioner should "not be surprised" if his girlfriend left after finding out about his fetish.

Dr. Stuttaford continued with an equally long section on the definition of fetishes, describing a laundry list of loosely related [[:Category:Paraphilias|paraphilias]]. He went on to describe an "anthropomorphic delusion" in which a senior executive had become "convinced he was a [[dog]]", and a situation where deranged men at a psychiatric unit barked at a butcher's truck upon its arrival, closing with statement that such delusions "can usually be treated", and that fetishes "may be moderated by psychotherapy combined with medication" if necessary.

Stuttaford has since mentioned furries a second time in [http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article4356233.ece an article] referring again to sexual activity whilst in fursuit.

=== Suzi Godson ===

Suzi also indicated that it would be "naive to unload your furry little secret and expect your girlfriend to react sympathetically." Her advice was to find a furry fan who had already developed similar interests instead.

Unlike Dr. Stuttaford, Suzi refrained from overly critical language regarding the furry fetish itself, focussing instead on its likely reception within British culture. She suggested that the British preferred more "restrained" fetishes (such as [[BDSM]]), unlike the "flamboyant joviality of dressing up as [[teddy bears]] and making out like rabbits," and noted that while costumed performers were popular, "an erotic interest" in [[Wikipedia:Children in Need|Children in Need]] spokestoy Pudsey Bear" was "not in our cultural script."

Suzi also took care to redefine furry as a fan activity as well as a fetish, noting the objection of some fans and [[fursuiter]]s to characterization of their interest as a fetish (though she did also mention the presence of [[fursuitsex.com]]). She made reference to several concrete elements of furry culture, including [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y5MHq5H59rA a video] by [[Zig Zag]] fursuit performer [[Kathris Hali]], the [[ukFur]] forums, and the regular [[LondonFur Meet]].

== Response ==

Furry fans blasted Dr. Stuttaford's commentary as "a useless essay on fetishism," with claims of [[stereotyping]] and suggestions that he had "seen [[CSI]] and that's all he [needed] to know to be an expert". In contrast, Suzi's answer was deemed both "full of sense", "useful", and "much more well-informed and honest." She was also praised for "actually [doing] research instead of copy-pasting from [[Vanity Fair]]." <ref name="LJ" /><ref>''[http://forum.ukfur.org/index.php?s=bd80316a173b8a7895d995a6411217fe&showtopic=7432 Times Online 'sex experts' advise US expatriate]'' - [[GreenReaper]] et. al., [[ukFur]] boards (9 December 2007)</ref>

[[Coyoty]] also suggested that the questioner was "having you on and not a real furry," as a real furry fans would be more likely to have a [[commission]]ed fursuit of their own character rather than one of Yogi Bear.

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Heat (magazine)

2014-09-11T19:09:09Z

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'''''Heat''''' is a [[furry fiction]] magazine published annually by [[Sofawolf Press]]. An all-[[sexual orientation|orientations]] erotic anthology, ''Heat'' features “a mix of [[wikipedia:short story|short fiction]], [[comics]], [[wikipedia:poetry|poetry]], and assorted graphic arts pieces intended to evoke a sense of passion and romance.”<ref>[https://www.sofawolf.com/products/heat-1 Heat #1] in [[Sofawolf Press]] online shop. Retrieved 2013 May 22.</ref> While the vast majority of submissions published in ''Heat'' include [[pornography|explicit sexual themes]], the series aspires to present developed stories driven by characters and their relationships, “in which sexuality is an important part of the way the plot plays out, but sex is not the only reason for the story.”<ref>''[http://www.flayrah.com/2067/calling-submissions-sofawolf-press-magazine-heat Calling for submissions to Sofawolf Press' magazine, "Heat"]'' - [[Sofawolf Press]], Flayrah (19 March 2005)</ref>

The first issue of ''Heat'', edited by [[Jeff Eddy]], was published in 2004, and subsequent issues edited by [[Alopex (person)|Alopex]] have been published each year thereafter (excepting the second issue, also published in 2004, and a hiatus in 2006). ''Heat'' has maintained a high standard of quality throughout the years of its history, earning recognition as Best Anthropomorphic Magazine in the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 [[Ursa Major Awards]]. It also contained 2007's short fiction winner, ''[[Don't Blink]]'' by [[Kyell Gold]].

''Heat'' is published as a [[wikipedia:Bookbinding#Paperback_binding|perfect-bound]] volume with color covers on gloss-coated cardstock and grayscale interiors on matte paper. The first issue was printed at [[wikipedia:letter size|letter size]], while all subsequent volumes have been 8 in × 10.5 in. The content of a typical issue of ''Heat'' has increased over time, with issues since #6 reaching a plateau in the area of 90-100 pages imposed primarily by cost restraints of printing and shipping. Although there is usually some thematic overlap between the submissions published in a given volume, issues of ''Heat'' do not conform to a tight topical theme, aiming instead for diversity in style, sexual orientation, and erotic intensity. <ref name="interview">''[http://www.flayrah.com/4212/heat-9-interview-series-editor-alopex 'Heat 9' interview: Series editor Alopex]'' - [[Isiah Jacobs]], Flayrah (16 Aug 2012)</ref>
== Issues ==

[[File:Heat-1 cover.gif|left|125px]]
=== Issue #1 ===

* '''Release date''': January 2004
* '''Pages''': 38
* '''Cover art''': [[Derrick Dasenbrock]] (front) & [[Taurin Fox]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #1'', ed. Jeff Eddy, (Sofawolf Press, 2004)</ref>
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| ''Pearl'' || [[Lars Hellberg]] || [[Ayame Emaya]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Might I Suggest'' || [[Malin]] || [[Malin]] || Comic || 11
|-
| ''Government Issue'' || [[Renee Carter Hall]] || [[Aura Moser]] || Story || 12
|-
| ''The Quandary'' || [[Marrok Alexander Wolf]] || [[Cara Mitten]] || Poetry || 20
|-
| ''[[ClosetCoon]]'' || [[Leaf Dog]] (credited as Jeff Kun) || [[Leaf Dog]] (credited as Jeff Kun) || Comic || 22
|-
| ''The Prisoner's Release, Part One'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Taurin Fox]] || Story || 23
|}

[[File:Heat-2 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #2 ===

* '''Release date''': June 2004
* '''Pages''': 60
* '''Cover art''': [[Allison Reed]] (wraparound)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #2'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2004)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Author
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! scope="col" | Format
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|-
| ''Once I Start Upon Rolling Hills'' || [[Dekker Graden]] || [[Cara Mitten]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Flirt!'' || [[Leo Magna]] || [[Leo Magna]] || Comic || 12
|-
| ''Moonstruck'' || [[Sheela Ardrian]] || [[Allison Reed]] || Poetry || 26
|-
| ''The Fairy Ring'' || [[Kim Liu]] || [[Megan Giles]] || Story || 28
|-
| ''Stolen Moment'' || [[Black Teagan]] || [[Black Teagan]] || Comic || 36
|-
| ''The Prisoner's Release, Part Two'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Taurin Fox]] || Story || 42
|}

[[File:Heat-3 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #3 ===

* '''Release date''': July 2005
* '''Pages''': 66
* '''Cover art''': [[Adam Wan]] (front & back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #3'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2005)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
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! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''Our Family of Farm Products'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Jonas (Jonas Silver)|Jonas]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Shark'' || [[Leo Magna]] || [[Leo Magna]] || Comic || 12
|-
| ''Spiced Foxes'' || [[Sheela Ardrian]] || [[Lurid]] || Poetry || 18
|-
| ''Danang Heat'' || [[Patrick "Bahumat" Rochefort]] || [[AlumaSquirrel]] || Story || 20
|-
| ''[[wikipedia:Sonnet 18|Sonnet XVIII]]'' || [[wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]] || [[Leo Magna]] || Poetry || 33
|-
| ''Lapping the Competition'' || [[Adam Wan]] || [[Adam Wan]] || Comic || 34
|-
| ''Missing'' || [[Scout McIntyger]] || [[Eric "Bayson" Hunter]] || Story || 44
|}

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=== Issue #4 ===

* '''Release date''': July 2007
* '''Pages''': 76
* '''Cover art''': [[Fluke]] (front) & [[Blotch]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #4'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2007)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''Loudly, the Maid'' || [[Alex Vance]] || [[Sara Miles]] (credited as "Sara Palmer") || Story || 2
|-
| ''Chance: Happenstanced'' || [[Blotch]] || [[Blotch]] || Comic || 12
|-
| ''First Taste'' || [[Rechan]] || [[Fel]] || Story || 18
|-
| ''Nothing Else'' || [[AlumaSquirrel]] || [[AlumaSquirrel]] || Poetry || 26
|-
| ''The Last Coyote Story'' || [[Jonas (Jonas Silver)|Jonas]] || [[Jonas (Jonas Silver)|Jonas]] || Story || 28
|-
| ''Motion of the Ocean'' || [[Fluke]] || [[Fluke]] || Comic || 32
|-
| ''[[Don't Blink]]'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Cooner]] (credited as "John Nunnemacher") || Story || 52
|}

[[File:Heat-5 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #5 ===

* '''Release date''': June 2008
* '''Pages''': 81
* '''Cover art''': [[oCeLoT]] (front) & [[CandyJack]]/[[Bonez]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #5'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2008)</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''Two Rivers'' || [[Renee Carter Hall]] || [[Heather Bruton]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Wet Dog'' || [[Sheela Ardrian]] || [[TaniDaReal]] || Poetry || 20
|-
| ''Love's Dance'' || [[Moonstalker]] || [[Moonstalker]] || Comic || 22
|-
| ''Just Another Saturday'' || [[Rechan]] || [[Autumn Sunrise]] || Story || 28
|-
| ''salon de citron'' || N/A || [[Adam Wan]] || Illustration || 35
|-
| ''First Time for Everything'' || [[Blotch]] || [[Blotch]] || Comic || 36
|-
| ''Beastiality'' || [[Sheela Ardrian]] || [[SOLIDASP]] || Poetry || 50
|-
| ''Third Date'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Richard Foley]] || Story || 52
|-
| ''Bad Puppy Boxers'' || N/A || [[Blotch]] || Illustration || 67
|-
| ''Property'' || [[Arthur Husky]] || [[Arthur Husky]] || Comic|| 68
|-
| ''Candy and Music'' || [[K.M. Hirosaki]] || [[Black Teagan]] || Story || 72
|}

[[File:Heat-6 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #6 ===

* '''Release date''': July 2009
* '''Pages''': 93
* '''Cover art''': [[Heather Bruton]] (front) & [[Kamui]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #6'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2009)</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''Prehistoric'' || [[Tym]] || [[Foxfeather R. Zenkova]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Sated'' || [[Frost wolf]] || [[Blotch]] || Poetry || 12
|-
| ''At a Glance'' || [[Rechan]] || [[Heather Bruton]] || Story || 14
|-
| ''Panty-Grams'' || N/A || [[Tracy Reynolds]] || Illustration || 21
|-
| ''Double Reward'' || [[TaniDaReal]] || [[TaniDaReal]] || Comic || 22
|-
| ''Talk With Your Mouth Full'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Chibi-Marrow]] || Story || 28
|-
| ''X-Y'' || N/A || [[Keto]] || Illustration || 33
|-
| ''Sugar Sweet'' || [[Yuki]] || [[Yuki]] || Comic || 34
|-
| ''Song of the Spouse'' || [[Fluke]] || [[Fluke]] || Poetry || 48
|-
| ''Learning to Live'' || [[Khaz (writer)|Khaz]] || [[Corgi (person)|Corgi]] || Story || 50
|-
| ''Kisses'' || [[Angie Kae]] || [[Angie Kae]] || Comic || 64
|-
| ''Dick & Jane'' || [[foozzzball]] || [[Autumn Sunrise]] || Story || 76
|-
| ''Vigil'' || [[Ekulf]] || [[Kamui]] || Poetry || 96 (back cover)
|}

[[File:Heat-7 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #7 ===

* '''Release date''': June 2010
* '''Pages''': 109
* '''Cover art''': [[Talenshi]] (front) & [[Yuki]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #7'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2010)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
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| ''By a Nose'' || [[Tony Greyfox]] || [[Yuki]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''A Werewolf's Last Warning'' || [[Wu Wei]] || [[SOLIDASP]] || Poetry || 16
|-
| ''The Day I Met You'' || [[Corgi (person)|Corgi]] || [[Corgi (person)|Corgi]] || Comic || 18
|-
| ''One Night'' || [[Faora Meridian]] || [[Dark Natasha]] || Story || 32
|-
| ''Cowboy Briefs'' || N/A || [[Greenmonkey]] || Illustration || 50
|-
| ''The One That Got Away'' || [[Adam Wan]] || [[Adam Wan]] || Comic || 51
|-
| ''A Taste of the Wild'' || [[Kandrel]] || [[Negger]] || Story || 60
|-
| ''Odd Coupling'' || [[Rukis]] || [[Rukis]] || Comic || 74
|-
| ''Dickinsonian'' || [[Whyte Yoté]] || [[Dragondrawer]] || Poetry || 85
|-
| ''Code Drop'' || [[Tempe O'Kun]] || [[Jailbird]] || Story || 86
|-
| ''Zero G Vixens'' || N/A || [[Foxer421|Foxer]] || Illustration || 107
|}

[[File:Heat-8 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #8 ===

* '''Release date''': June 2011
* '''Pages''': 106
* '''Cover art''': [[Kamui]] (wraparound)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #8'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2011)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''A Hard Semester'' || [[Miqmah]] || [[Rarakie]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Heat Condom'' || N/A || [[Bimbinbop]] || Illustration || 16
|-
| ''Short Film'' || [[Tempe O'Kun]] || [[Keovi]] || Comic || 17
|-
| ''Bus Stop'' || [[Opaline S. Fox]] || [[ShinigamiGirl]] || Story || 22
|-
| ''A Storm to Remember'' || [[Cody Denton]] || [[Leucrotta]] || Poetry || 34
|-
| ''Jill's 49th'' || [[foozzzball]] || [[Tsaiwolf]] || Story || 36
|-
| ''At Spearpoint'' || [[Black Teagan]] || [[Black Teagan]] || Comic || 50
|-
| ''Mew-Thai Massage'' || N/A || [[TaniDaReal]] || Illustration || 63
|-
| ''Stagnated'' || [[K.M. Hirosaki]] || [[Arthur Husky]] || Story || 64
|-
| ''One Is Silver'' || [[Kashra]] || [[Keto]] || Comic || 77
|-
| ''The Wallet Story'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[AmonOmega]] || Story || 94
|-
| ''Mutts: A Warning'' || [[Spretz]] || [[Fluke]] || Poetry || 104
|}

[[File:Heat-9 cover.jpg|left|125px]]
=== Issue #9 ===

* '''Release date''': June 2012
* '''Pages''': 90
* '''Cover art''': [[Racoonwolf]] (front) & [[Scappo]] (back)
* '''Contents''':<ref>''Heat #9'', ed. Alopex, (Sofawolf Press, 2012)</ref>
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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Author
! scope="col" | Illlustrator
! scope="col" | Format
! scope="col" | Page
|-
| ''Better'' || [[Kandrel]] || [[Scappo]] || Story || 2
|-
| ''Love Learn'' || [[Camron Cuccu]] || [[Vantid]] || Poetry || 14
|-
| ''Two Minutes'' || [[Whyte Yoté]] || [[Alastair Wildfire]] || Story || 16
|-
| ''A Weapon'' || [[Kobal]] || [[Negger]] || Comic || 30
|-
| ''The Crimson Divine'' || N/A || [[Rukis]] || Illustration || 39
|-
| ''Bad Timing'' || [[Huskyteer]] || [[Cara Mitten]] || Story || 40
|-
| ''Rewind'' || [[Kyell Gold]] || [[Nimrais]] || Story || 50
|-
| ''Top-Speed Dating'' || N/A || [[Foxfeather R. Zenkova]] || Illustration || 60
|-
| ''Stupid'' || [[RayFkm]] || [[RayFkm]] || Comic || 61
|-
| ''The Prisoner'' || [[Tempe O'Kun]] (credited as Tempo)|| [[Blotch]] || Story || 67
|-
| ''True Color'' || [[Khaz (writer)|Khaz]] || [[Tush]] || Story || 76
|}

== References ==
<references/>

== External link ==
* [https://www.sofawolf.com/a/shop/heat Heat category] at [[Sofawolf Press]]

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Arkobear

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'''C-Bear''', also known as '''CoolBear''', is a [[furry]] [[plushophile]]. He maintains a site dedicated to [[teddy bear]] collection and plushophilia. Featured inside are articles on how to make [[SPH]]s inside your [[plush toy|plushies]], as well as numerous pictures of [[Plushophile#Plushophilia_and_sexuality|plushie sex]]. He can also be seen in furry guises or [[fursuits]].

C-Bear's alias is derived from the animation C-Bear and Jamal,<ref>[http://www.tv.com/c-bear-and-jamal/show/5332/summary.html?full_summary=1&tag=showspace_links;full_summary C-Bear and Jamal show] (retrieved June 6 2006)</ref> first aired on [[W:Fox Entertainment Group|FOX]] in 1996.

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Beak sheath

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A '''Beak sheath''' is a fictional, hypothetical device for anthropomorphic [[avian]]s. The device, as put forward by [[Nek0gami]], would allow avians and other beaked individuals the ability to perform, among other activities, oral sex on another partner while reducing the chance of injury on a sexual partner's [[genitalia]].
The sheath would do so by covering the sharp serrations on the [[wikipedia:tomia|tomia]] on both the top and bottom beak with form-fitting polymer 'lips'.
==External links==
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12514786/ Nek0gami's proposal for a "beak sheath"]

[[Category:Furgonomics]]
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Category:Fox species

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Pokémon

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'''Pokémon''' ('''Pocket Monsters''' in Japanese) is a Japanese franchise, started with a video game created by [[Wikipedia:Satoshi Tajiri|Satoshi Tajiri]] and his company [[Wikipedia:Game Freak|Game Freak]] in 1996. It has since been spun-off into numerous additional games, an [[animé]] series, trading card game and several [[manga]], and heavily merchandised.
[[File:Latias.jpg|right|thumb|[[pokemon:Latias|Latias]], one example of a Pokemon.]]
The setting for the game is a world not too different from our own, populated by not just [[human]]s but also many [[species]] of creatures called Pokémon. The species vary greatly from [[dragon]]s, to [[mammal]]s, even plant-like creatures to inanimate objects, and nearly all of them have some kind of supernatural abilities, such as breathing fire or telekinesis. Most Pokémon do not speak [[human]] languages, but can communicate amongst one another. These creatures are caught from the wild and trained by humans to compete in sporting fights using their various abilities.

Although there are diffences between interpretations of the original concept (the games, animé and manga are not canon to each other), the Pokémon are often shown to be semi-sentient creatures or occasionally intellectual equals with humans. Most species have simple linguistic skills, and are capable of independent thoughts and actions.

== See also ==
* {{intitle|Pokemon}}
* [[:Category:Pokémon multiplayer worlds|Pokémon multiplayer worlds]]
* [[Pok%C3%A9morph]]
* [[Wikipedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]] at Wikipedia

Pokémon species:
* [[Pikachu]] - Pokémon [[mascot]], yellow electric [[mouse]]
* [[Lucario]] - anthropomorphic blue and black [[jackal]]-like Pokémon

== External links ==
* [http://www.pokemon.com/ Official Website]
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/ Bulbapedia] - a community-driven ''Pokémon'' encyclopedia
* [[Pokemon:|The Pokémon Encyclopedia]]
* [http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ Official Japanese website]

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Pokémon

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'''Pokémon''' ('''Pocket Monsters''' in Japanese) is a Japanese franchise, started with a video game created by [[Wikipedia:Satoshi Tajiri|Satoshi Tajiri]] and his company [[Wikipedia:Game Freak|Game Freak]] in 1996. It has since been spun-off into numerous additional games, an [[animé]] series, trading card game and several [[manga]], and heavily merchandised.
[[File:Latias.jpg|right|thumb|[[pokemon:Latias|Latias]], one example of a Pokemon.]]
The setting for the game is a world not too different from our own, populated by not just [[human]]s but also many [[species]] of creatures called Pokémon. The species vary greatly from [[dragon]]s, to [[mammal]]s, even plant-like creatures to inanimate objects, and nearly all of them have some kind of supernatural abilities, such as breathing fire or telekinesis. Most Pokémon do not speak [[human]] languages, but can communicate amongst one another. These creatures are caught from the wild and trained by humans to compete in sporting fights using their various abilities.

Although there are diffences between interpretations of the original concept (the games, animé and manga are not canon to each other), the Pokémon are often shown to be semi-sentient creatures or occasionally intellectual equals with humans. Most species have simple linguistic skills, and are capable of independent thoughts and actions.

== See also ==
* {{intitle|Pokémon}}
* [[:Category:Pokémon multiplayer worlds|Pokémon multiplayer worlds]]
* [[Pok%C3%A9morph]]
* [[Wikipedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]] at Wikipedia

Pokémon species:
* [[Pikachu]] - Pokémon [[mascot]], yellow electric [[mouse]]
* [[Lucario]] - anthropomorphic blue and black [[jackal]]-like Pokémon

== External links ==
* [http://www.pokemon.com/ Official Website]
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/ Bulbapedia] - a community-driven ''Pokémon'' encyclopedia
* [[Pokemon:|The Pokémon Encyclopedia]]
* [http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ Official Japanese website]

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Therianthropy

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:''"Therian" redirects here. You may be looking for [[Therian (person)|the fursuiter]].''

[[File:TigerHologram.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hologram of a [[human]] combined with a picture of a [[tiger]] at the [[Wikipedia:MIT Museum|MIT Museum]]]]
'''Therianthropy,''' derived from the Greek '''''therion''''' (Θηριον, meaning "beast,") and '''''anthrōpos''''' (ανθρωπος, meaning "human,") refers to beings that are partly [[human]] and partly [[animal]], and in this sense is synonymous with the [[Furry_fandom|fandom's]] term [[furry]]. It has often been used to describe mythological creatures and deities, and has recently taken on a specialized meaning. Sometimes shortened to "therian," it is today used to describe members of a spiritually oriented subculture.
[[File:Indescribable.jpg|right|thumb]]

One way the term ''therianthropy'' has been used, as early as 1901, is in reference to transformation folklore of Asia and Europe.<ref name="De Groot 171">{{cite book| last= De Groot| first= J.J.M.| year=1901| title=The Religious System of China: Volume IV| location= Leiden| publisher= Brill| pages=171}}</ref>
''Therianthropy'' was also used to describe spiritual belief in animal transformation in 1915<Ref>{{cite book| url=http://books.google.com.au/books?vid=OCLC00413099&id=NnsEAAAAMAAJ&q=therianthropy&dq=therianthropy&pgis=1| title=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era| first=Frank| last= Brinkley| coauthors= Dairoku Kikuchi| year=1915| publisher=The Encyclopædia Britannica Co}}</ref> and one source<ref>{{cite book| url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/042520765X/ref=sib_books_pg/103-5908909-3814218?ie=UTF8&keywords=therianthropy&p=S010&checkSum=oNQ4%252FbLGkQ3Eaqp7CFUk6ddFZA94ebGplwwQipd17Zw%253D| title=The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation| first=Katherine| last=Ramsland| publisher= Berkley Hardcover| year= 2005| isbn= 042520765X}}</ref> raises the possibility the term may have been used in the 16th century in criminal trials of suspected werewolves.

==Scholarly use of the term==

In folklore, mythology and anthropology, therianthropy can be used to describe a character that shares some traits of humans and some of non-human animals.

One familiar form of therianthropy is [[lycanthropy]] (from the Greek words ''lykos'' ("[[Wolf (species)|wolf]]") and ''anthropos'' ("man")), the technical term for the transformation from man to animal form. Although the precise definition of lycanthropy specifically refers only to the change into wolf form (as with a [[werewolf]]), the term "lycanthropy" is often used incorrectly to refer to [[shapeshifting]] to any non-human animal form.

===Prehistory===

Ethnologist Ivar Lissner theorized that cave paintings of beings with human and nonhuman animal features were not physical representations of
mythical shapeshifters, but were instead attempts to depict [[wikipedia:Shamanism|shamans]] in the process of acquiring the mental and spiritual attributes of various beasts.<ref name="Steiger 1999">{{cite book| last=Steiger| first= B.| year=1999| title=The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings| location=Farmington Hills, MI| publisher=Visible Ink| id=ISBN 1-57859-078-7}}</ref> Religious historian Mircea Eliade has observed that beliefs regarding animal identity and transformation into animals are widespread.<ref name=Eliade>{{cite book | last=Eliade | first=Mircea | title=Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth | publisher=Harper & Row | year=1965}}</ref>

===Usage in art===

Therianthropy can also refer to characters that share man and animal traits at the same time, for example with the animal-headed human forms of gods in [[Egyptian mythology]] (such as Ra, Sobek and others) as well as creatures like [[centaur]]s and [[mermaid]]s.

===Self-identified therianthropy===
Therianthropy, besides its original use as a term to describe situations and creatures that occur in [[mythology]] and [[folklore]], is also used for people who identify as nonhuman animals. Therians believe that they have an intrinsic, personal, and integral connection to an animal (or animals). Most believe that mental and emotional shifts can occur as a result; a controversial minority extend this to the physical world.

Therianthropy is sometimes viewed as a spiritual counterpart to [[furry fandom]], which is concerned more with imagination than belief. Some [[furries]] view therianthropy as "taking it too far," while some therians view furries as frivolous and ignorant of the "true nature" of animals. However, relations are usually friendly, and therians can often be found at furry [[convention]]s and other social [[:Category:Events|events]]. In fact, there is considerable overlap between the two groups.<ref>"[http://www.flayrah.com/3841/mixed-venue-survey-delineates-furries-therians-otherkin Mixed-venue survey delineates furries, therians, otherkin]" -
''[[Flayrah]]'' article written by [[GreenReaper]], dated 23 Jan 2012.</ref>

The "new-age" notion of "spiritual therianthropy" developed among the [[Usenet]] group ''alt.horror.werewolves'' (ca. 1992).<ref>{{cite book | title = The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within | author = Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray | publisher = I. B. Tauris | year = 2006 | isbn = 1845111583 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjXpBpGt6VsC&pg=PA143&ots=MiNn6o_e_V&dq=therianthropy+culture&sig=1BLTDHRDAqjyDEKvLdS5wH9M7r8}}</ref> Some Usenet users began publicly asserting that they were part
animal. It turned out that some were only joking, but others were apparently serious about the assertions, which were subject to ongoing
discussion.<ref name="Cohen 104">{{cite book| last=Cohen| first= D.| year=1996| title=Werewolves| location=New York| publisher= Penguin| id= ISBN 0-525-65207-8| pages=104}}</ref> Such people initially called themselves "[[lycanthropy|lycanthropes]]", but since the word more accurately describes wolf-people, the word "therianthropes" became more popular.

When people believe they change into an animal form (''theriomorphosis''), or possess supernatural non-human animal traits, the term [[clinical lycanthropy]] is often used. This classification is a form of mental illness, though many anthropologists would point out that the belief has extensive religious precedent in [[shaman]]ic cultures. Likewise, people who call themselves [[shapeshifter|shapechangers]] as a form of social identification are generally not considered ill by mental health professionals unless their beliefs interfere with the normal functioning of their lives. This can be a controversial issue, as the line between what the Western mind passes off as a strange or alternative belief and what is considered a mental illness is indistinct.

==Varieties==
Terms referring to specific varieties of therianthropy are based on [[Greek mythology|Greek]] words for specific animals combined with ''anthropos''. A nearly endless number of types of therianthropy could thus be referred to by their own individual terms, though most of these would be neologisms. Rare alternate derivations based on Latin are considered nonstandard at best, incorrect at worst, because they both break precedent and mix a Latin prefix with a Greek suffix. Other than lycanthropy, cynanthropy and ailuranthropy are the best known varieties <ref name="Greene 229">{{cite book| last=Greene| first= R.| year=2000| title=The Magic of Shapeshifting| location=York Beach, ME| publisher=Weiser| id= ISBN 1-57863-171-8| pages=229}}</ref> Cynanthropy existed by at least 1901, when the term was applied to myths from [[China]] about humans turning into [[dog]]s, dogs becoming people, and [[zoophilia|sexual relations between humans and canines]] <ref name="De Groot 184">{{cite book| last= De Groot| first= J.J.M.| year=1901| title=The Religious System of China: Volume IV| location= Leiden| publisher= Brill| pages=184}}</ref>. Ailuranthropy is the same, but with [[cat]]s.

===Lycanthropy===

The most commonly known form of therianthropy is [[lycanthropy]], from the Greek word ''lykos'' ("[[wolf]]"), the technical term for man-wolf ([[werewolf]]) transformations (Rose, 230). Although the precise definition of lycanthropy specifically refers only to werewolves, the term is often used to refer to the process of [[shapeshift]]ing to any non-human animal form.

===Cynanthropy===

The [[Greek mythology|Greeks]] also spoke of cynanthropy (''Kynior,'' [[dog]]). Cynanthropy, sometimes spelled kynanthropy, is applied to shapeshifters who alternate between [[dog]] form and human form, or to beings that do not shapeshift but possess combined dog and human anatomical features (Hamel, 76). It is also used for real persons suffering from the delusion that they are dogs (Ashley, 37). The term existed by at least 1901, when it was applied to myths from [[China]] about humans turning into dogs, dogs becoming people, and sexual relations between humans and canines (De Groot, 184). After lycanthropy, cynanthropy is the best known term for a specific variety of therianthropy.

Anthropologist David Gordon White called Central Asia the "vortex of cynanthropy" because races of dog-men were habitually placed there by ancient writers. Hindu mythology puts races of "Dog Cookers" to the far north of India, the Chinese placed the "Dog Jung" and other human/canine barbarians to the extreme west, and European legends frequently put the dog men called Cynocephali in unmapped regions to the east. Some of these races were described as humans with dog heads, others as canine shapeshifters (White, 114-15).

The weredog or cynanthrope is also known in Timor. It is described as a human/canine shapeshifter who is also capable of transforming other people into animals against their wills. These transformations are usually into prey animals such as goats, so that the cynanthrope can devour them without discovery of the crime (Rose, 390).

===Ailuranthropy===

Ailuranthropy refers to human/feline transformations (also known as [[werecat]]s), or to other beings that combine feline and human characteristics (Greene, 229). Its root word is also used in ailurophobia, the most common term for a phobia of cats. Ailuros is also a Greek name for [[Bast]].

===Musoanthropy===

Musoanthropy refers to human/[[mouse]] transformations, or to other beings that combine mice and human characteristics. Its root word in Greek is also used in musophobia, or phobia of mice. Musomania describes a fondness or interest in mice. <ref>http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1347</ref>

===Regional varieties===

Therianthropy or various terms relating to subtypes can refer to any sort of werebeast or to transformation into any animal. In India & the Asian islands the [[tiger]] is the most common form, in North Europe the [[bear (species)|bear]] (see [[berserker]]), in Japan the [[fox]], in Africa the [[leopard]] or [[hyena]], sometimes also the [[lion]], in South America the [[jaguar]]; but though there is a tendency for the most important carnivorous animal of the area to take the first place in stories and beliefs as to transformation, the less important beasts of prey and even harmless animals like the [[deer]] also figure among the were-animals. Another unusual case is the were-[[shark]] of Polynesia.

== Modern subcultural use of the term ==

=== Beliefs and origins ===

In recent times, a [[Wikipedia:Subculture|subculture]] has developed that has adopted the word ''therianthropy'' to describe a sense of intense [[furry spirituality|spiritual]] or psychological identification with a non-human animal. Members of this subculture typically refer to themselves as ''therianthropes'' or ''therians''. The word ''[[were]]'' was also common at one point, in reference to shapeshifting creatures of legend such as [[Werewolf|werewolves]], [[were]][[tiger]]s and the like, but is less common these days. One reason for the waning use of the term "were" is its growing use in the furry community to mean a more "bestial" style furry. This can be the cause of quite a few more misunderstandings between the therian and furry communities.

The [[Usenet]] group [[alt.horror.werewolves]] was founded in 1992, and in its earliest days the members discussed fictional [[shapeshifting|shapeshifters]]. Some posters began to publicly claim that they considered themselves to be partially non-human animal. A number of these people were only joking, but enough people were serious about it that it became a trend. Others who professed the same beliefs soon joined the group. The earliest therians called themselves ''lycanthropes'', but as that word more accurately describes wolf-people, ''therianthropes'' was chosen as a more inclusive term.

Those within this subculture who identify with a spiritual understanding of this phenomenon may believe that they have the spirit or soul, in whole or in part, of a non-human animal, and their beliefs often overlap to some extent with aspects of [[Wikipedia:Shamanism|shamanism]] or [[animal totem|totemism]]. Some also draw inspiration from stories of shapeshifting in [[Wikipedia:Celtic mythology|Celtic]], [[Wikipedia:Norse mythology|Norse]] and [[Wikipedia:Native American mythology|Native American]] myths, among others. The term ''spiritual therianthropy'' is often used to differentiate this definition of therianthropy from others. However, shamanism and totemism are not an intrinsic part of therianthropy. Some spiritual therianthropes may express a belief that they were an animal in a [[wikipedia:Past life|past life]] that was [[wikipedia:Reincarnation|reincarnated]] as a [[human]].

Those who prefer a psychological explanation may simply describe it as having a non-human animal side to their personality or nature, with some believing that it may be due to some sort of unusual [[wikipedia:Neurophysiology|neurophysiology]], as is thought to be the case with syndromes like attention deficit disorder and autism. Others believe that their genes are partially non-human, but this explanation is unproven, scientifically implausible, and not favored by many. Most of those who support the explanation of atypical neuropsychology, however, do not appear to regard it as innately dysfunctional.

In either case, the identification with the non-human animal may be partial, as in those who regard themselves as having both human and non-human attributes, or complete, as in those who regard themselves as essentially non-human animals in human bodies. The terms ''species dysphoria'' and ''transspeciesism'' have occasionally been used to refer to the latter phenomenon, in parallel with the concepts of gender dysphoria and [[Transsexual|transsexuality]].

Most therians identify with a single type of non-human animal, but there are some who identify with more than one — sometimes related animals, as in several different species of [[feline]] or [[canine]], for example, but sometimes completely dissimilar animals. Those who identify with all members of one family — for instance, someone who claims to have characteristics of all felines — is called a ''cladotherianthrope''. The species of non-human animal with which a particular therian identifies is sometimes referred to as that person's ''theriotype'' or ''[[phenotype]]''. The term phenotype was originally more common but has fallen into disuse because it also refers to physical appearance.

The majority of therianthropes identify as [[feline]] or [[canine]], often big cats and wolves<ref>[http://archive.werelist.com/modules.php?name=Demographics&op=show_statistics&showpage=pheno1 Species survey by the Werelist]</ref>, but there are also [[reptile]]s, [[bird|avians]], other [[mammal]]s, and [[insects]]. Some skeptics argue that, because of the preponderance of large [[carnivore]]s, most therians are only faking and are purposefully choosing impressive animals for ego-based purposes. There are also some individuals who identify with mythical species (e.g. [[dragon]]s, [[Wikipedia:Elf|elves]], [[gryphon]]s, [[centaur]]s and so forth), but they are usually categorized in the broader [[otherkin]] community rather than as therians.

Therianthropes may describe their nature as manifesting in terms of their cognitive processes, their outlook on life, their inner reactions and [[Wikipedia:Instinct|instinct]]s, their senses, or through their physical body, though claims of actual physical variations from the norm tend to be regarded with skepticism both within and outside the subculture. The human and non-human aspects of the self may cooperate or conflict, leading to happiness or unhappy dysfunction, and may take much self-discovery to begin to understand or accept. Because this is a personal perception of self, the ways in which a person describes his or her self-identification as a therianthrope vary considerably.

A controversial aspect of therianthropy is the subject of ''shifting'' (a shortened word for shapeshifting), which generally refers to any manner by which a therianthrope's nature may become evidenced internally (to themselves) or externally to others. Few people within the subculture doubt that shifts of mental and emotional perception may occur; some therianthropes also claim to experience a physical change to their appearance, an event known as ''physical shifting'' (or ''P-shifting''). Many in the therianthrope subculture doubt that physical changes actually occur; the overwhelming majority of those outside of the culture completely deny that any real physical shifting can occur.

Some of the rationally minded, skeptical therianthropes suggest that their therianthropy may be a mental or psychological condition, possibly with a spiritual or religious component. Advocates of this viewpoint can be found on the forums at Werelist.com (see below).

=== Subculture ===

Therianthropy as a subculture does not have any central dogma or tenets, nor any recognized authority. Those who have been around for a long time are generally listened to, though less out of any perceived spiritual authority than simple acknowledgment of experience.{{fact}} The word [[greymuzzle]] is often used tongue-in-cheek to describe these people.

While there is no official offline social organization, there exists a [[:Category:Community|community]] of therians with many diverse outlooks on the concept, including [[Christian]]s, [[Wikipedia:Pagan|Pagan]]s, and [[Wikipedia:Atheism|atheist]]s. As could be expected, disagreements are frequent, and the many online [[forum]]s and [[:Category:Chat rooms|chat rooms]] of the community each have their own "atmosphere," ranging from total acceptance to scornful cynicism.{{fact}} There have been intermittent "real-world" gatherings, referred to as ''[[howls]]'', but their purpose is primarily social.

==== Therianthropy and species dysphoria ====

Therianthropy is closely related to [[wikipedia:Species dysphoria|species dysphoria]], a condition similar to [[Wikipedia:Gender_Dysphoria|gender dysphoria]] in which the person has the body of a human, but the identity of an animal. Many therians admit to having at least mild species dysphoria, and today, many therians believe that species dysphoria is simply another "symptom" of therianthropy.

==== Therianthropy vs. clinical lycanthropy ====

Spiritual therianthropy is not automatically the same as clinical lycanthropy, a mental illness in which an individual believes he or she belongs to or can change to another [[species]]. While some therianthropes believe they can take on the mindset of their "other side" in what is referred to as a ''mental shift'', they believe that they retain control during these transformations and are no greater danger to themselves or others. The term ''contherianthropes'' is sometimes used for those who do not claim to mentally shift but believe they have human and non-human sides which are mixed up into a single unchanging whole.

==== Therianthropy and furry ====

Therianthropy should not be confused with the [[furry fandom]], and mistaking them for one another can cause offense to many therians and furries alike, though some intermixing of the groups does occur. Therianthropes tend to be more focused on the sense of an animal within, an animal side to their nature, or spiritual concepts; by contrast, [[furry|furries]] are more commonly focused on furry [[art]] and/or [[role-playing]] related to [[anthropomorphic]] non-humans. There is some overlap with those who identify themselves with each group or view the other positively, as well as those in each group who view the other negatively. For instance, some furries view therianthropy as "taking it too far," or may think of therians as being just plain weird. At the same time, many therians dislike furries because of their perceived lack of understanding of therianthropy itself, which can lead to confusion, or because they perceive the fandom as being primarily sexual.

==== Therians and shamanism ====

Therianthropy and shamanism have a great deal in common at the basic level. Many therians believe in Shamanic and mystic ideas. Many who practice shamanism hold an interest in therianthropy. Many therianthropes claim to have spirit guides, or [[totem]]s. However, a therian's totem is not necessarily the same animal as their theriotype, and having or invoking a totem animal alone does not make a person a therian.

== Therian ==

'''Therians''' are people who believe that they are, in whole or in part, a non-human animal. That is to say that part of their core being is a non-human animal, be it spiritually, mentally, et cetera. Unlike [[furry lifestyle]]rs, therians do not necessarily try to outwardly project their animalistic nature, nor do they choose their animal side. They consider themselves to be an animal within.

== Shifts ==

There are three categorized types of ''shifts'' acknowledged by the therian community:
* '''Mental (M-Shift)''' - A change in psychological state, where a person thinks and behaves more like their theriotype animal.
* '''Spiritual (S-Shift)''' - A change in spiritual state, often broken down by type (astral shifting, auric shifting, etc). The spiritual self, astral body, or aura change to resemble the theriotype animal.
* '''Physical (P-Shift)''' - A change in physical state, physically changing to become more like, or entirely like, their theriotype animal. Controversial, and largely thought to be impossible by the therian community.

Other types of shifts have been categorized from these terms and can be found in the links as listed below.

Shifting, in general, means times when animalistic aspects become, dominant over human aspects of the person's personality or spiritual form. This may include, but not be limited to, feelings of "phantom limbs" or fur, keener senses, desires to bite or hunt, feelings of instincts not usual to humans, etc. This is distinct from invocation of a totem entity, or from any state induced by drugs or guided trances, as it is natural to the individual in question and can generally be easily called upon through simple concentration or will. Occasionally it is involuntary, but generally not to extremes (making it distinct, in the case of m-shifting, from psychological lycanthropy). M-shifting may be minor (animalistic aspects come to the forefront, but only in small ways, and the human persona remains dominant) or major (the therian can no longer speak, may have trouble walking upright, and can no longer behave in a human fashion).

==== P-shifting ====

P-shifting is the most controversial. As a general rule, it's more used as a term to discuss fictional [[transformation]]s rather than literal ones; people claiming to p-shift in any way are usually met with aggressive skepticism and are often accused of being [[roleplay]]ers. No concrete evidence has been offered of physical shapeshifting.

Some Therian groups view the "physical shift" as NOT being an actual change into an animal, but an intense physiological change, which may include heightened senses, increased strength, etc, depending on the animal in question.

== Therian and furry lifestylers ==

Therians differ from the [[Furry lifestyle|furry lifestyle]] in that they do not feel a need to costume themselves or pretend to be their animal--they feel they already are their animal, inside, and must cope with this rather than promoting it to the world. Furry lifestylers wish to become and behave like their animal, while therians believe they already are their animal. This is not to say someone cannot be both! There are a number of therians in the furry community (and of course, vice versa). Being therian is not a lifestyle choice, but being furry is--a therian can make that choice as well.

Therians also do not, in any way, choose their animal side. Most believe they are born with it. It may take a lot of introspection and soul-searching for some therians to come to terms with their animal nature. The therian nature is not based on stereotypes (such as a wolf howling at the moon, or a lion's courage), but instead reflects the living animal's behavior more closely.

Therian nature is distinct from aspects of shamanism or working with totem spirits. Therians do not acquire their animal traits from outside of themselves, via invocation of a spirit.

Usually, therians have one animal aspect, or [[theriotype]] (formerly referred to as the [[phenotype]]), but some have two or more. Generally, these people are referred to as ''Polyweres'' [alternate term: Pan-Therian], and can be a source of controversy, as single-aspect therians often cannot relate to how a multiple-animal therian could exist, especially in the context of having an animal soul. Many are therian-[[otherkin]] mixes, such as wolf/dragons or cat/vampires. In cases where a therian has two theriotypes (such as wolf and cougar) they do not manifest a hybrid or mixture of traits, but may shift to one or the other at various times--not simultaneously. A therian who manifests a hybrid theriotype (such as a wolf-cat hybrid, for example) is often considered to be more properly otherkin, rather than specifically therian.

== See also ==

* [[Lifestylers]]
* [[Otherkin]]
* [[Wikipedia:Therianthropy|Therianthropy]] on Wikipedia

==References==
<references />
*''This article incorporates text from the [[wikipedia:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]], a publication now in the [[wikipedia:public domain|public domain]].''
* OED (1933) Vol XI p 288
* Encyclopaedia Britannica (1886) Vol XX p 367 (C.P.Teile)
* Cohen, D. (1996) ''Werewolves.'' New York: Penguin. ISBN 0525652078
* De Groot, J.J.M. (1901) ''The Religious System of China: Volume IV'' Leiden: Brill.
* Greene, R. (2000) ''The Magic of Shapeshifting.'' York Beach, ME: Weiser. ISBN 1578631718
* Steiger, B. (1999) ''The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings.'' Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink. ISBN 1578590787

==External links==
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* [http://www.werelist.com The Werelist]
* [http://www.werelibrary.org The WereLibrary]
* [[:wikia:c:therian|Therian.Wikia]]
* [http://anotherwiki.org AnOtherWiki]
* [http://www.swampfox.demon.co.uk/utlah/ Wereweb]
* [http://www.project-shift.org Project Shift]
* [http://www.oocities.org/rainforest/canopy/1927/greenspiral/resource.html The Therianthropy Resource]
* [http://yaiolani.tripod.com/humfaq.htm Shifter FAQ]
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[[File:TigerHologram.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hologram of a [[human]] combined with a picture of a [[tiger]] at the [[Wikipedia:MIT Museum|MIT Museum]]]]
'''Therianthropy,''' derived from the Greek '''''therion''''' (Θηριον, meaning "beast,") and '''''anthrōpos''''' (ανθρωπος, meaning "human,") refers to beings that are partly [[human]] and partly [[animal]], and in this sense is synonymous with the [[Furry_fandom|fandom's]] term [[furry]]. It has often been used to describe mythological creatures and deities, and has recently taken on a specialized meaning. Sometimes shortened to "therian," it is today used to describe members of a spiritually oriented subculture.
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One way the term ''therianthropy'' has been used, as early as 1901, is in reference to transformation folklore of Asia and Europe.<ref name="De Groot 171">{{cite book| last= De Groot| first= J.J.M.| year=1901| title=The Religious System of China: Volume IV| location= Leiden| publisher= Brill| pages=171}}</ref>
''Therianthropy'' was also used to describe spiritual belief in animal transformation in 1915<Ref>{{cite book| url=http://books.google.com.au/books?vid=OCLC00413099&id=NnsEAAAAMAAJ&q=therianthropy&dq=therianthropy&pgis=1| title=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era| first=Frank| last= Brinkley| coauthors= Dairoku Kikuchi| year=1915| publisher=The Encyclopædia Britannica Co}}</ref> and one source<ref>{{cite book| url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/042520765X/ref=sib_books_pg/103-5908909-3814218?ie=UTF8&keywords=therianthropy&p=S010&checkSum=oNQ4%252FbLGkQ3Eaqp7CFUk6ddFZA94ebGplwwQipd17Zw%253D| title=The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation| first=Katherine| last=Ramsland| publisher= Berkley Hardcover| year= 2005| isbn= 042520765X}}</ref> raises the possibility the term may have been used in the 16th century in criminal trials of suspected werewolves.

==Scholarly use of the term==

In folklore, mythology and anthropology, therianthropy can be used to describe a character that shares some traits of humans and some of non-human animals.

One familiar form of therianthropy is [[lycanthropy]] (from the Greek words ''lykos'' ("[[Wolf (species)|wolf]]") and ''anthropos'' ("man")), the technical term for the transformation from man to animal form. Although the precise definition of lycanthropy specifically refers only to the change into wolf form (as with a [[werewolf]]), the term "lycanthropy" is often used incorrectly to refer to [[shapeshifting]] to any non-human animal form.

===Prehistory===

Ethnologist Ivar Lissner theorized that cave paintings of beings with human and nonhuman animal features were not physical representations of
mythical shapeshifters, but were instead attempts to depict [[wikipedia:Shamanism|shamans]] in the process of acquiring the mental and spiritual attributes of various beasts.<ref name="Steiger 1999">{{cite book| last=Steiger| first= B.| year=1999| title=The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings| location=Farmington Hills, MI| publisher=Visible Ink| id=ISBN 1-57859-078-7}}</ref> Religious historian Mircea Eliade has observed that beliefs regarding animal identity and transformation into animals are widespread.<ref name=Eliade>{{cite book | last=Eliade | first=Mircea | title=Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth | publisher=Harper & Row | year=1965}}</ref>

===Usage in art===

Therianthropy can also refer to characters that share man and animal traits at the same time, for example with the animal-headed human forms of gods in [[Egyptian mythology]] (such as Ra, Sobek and others) as well as creatures like [[centaur]]s and [[mermaid]]s.

===Self-identified therianthropy===
Therianthropy, besides its original use as a term to describe situations and creatures that occur in [[mythology]] and [[folklore]], is also used for people who identify as nonhuman animals. Therians believe that they have an intrinsic, personal, and integral connection to an animal (or animals). Most believe that mental and emotional shifts can occur as a result; a controversial minority extend this to the physical world.

Therianthropy is sometimes viewed as a spiritual counterpart to [[furry fandom]], which is concerned more with imagination than belief. Some [[furries]] view therianthropy as "taking it too far," while some therians view furries as frivolous and ignorant of the "true nature" of animals. However, relations are usually friendly, and therians can often be found at furry [[convention]]s and other social [[:Category:Events|events]]. In fact, there is considerable overlap between the two groups.<ref>"[http://www.flayrah.com/3841/mixed-venue-survey-delineates-furries-therians-otherkin Mixed-venue survey delineates furries, therians, otherkin]" -
''[[Flayrah]]'' article written by [[GreenReaper]], dated 23 Jan 2012.</ref>

The "new-age" notion of "spiritual therianthropy" developed among the [[Usenet]] group ''alt.horror.werewolves'' (ca. 1992).<ref>{{cite book | title = The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within | author = Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray | publisher = I. B. Tauris | year = 2006 | isbn = 1845111583 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjXpBpGt6VsC&pg=PA143&ots=MiNn6o_e_V&dq=therianthropy+culture&sig=1BLTDHRDAqjyDEKvLdS5wH9M7r8}}</ref> Some Usenet users began publicly asserting that they were part
animal. It turned out that some were only joking, but others were apparently serious about the assertions, which were subject to ongoing
discussion.<ref name="Cohen 104">{{cite book| last=Cohen| first= D.| year=1996| title=Werewolves| location=New York| publisher= Penguin| id= ISBN 0-525-65207-8| pages=104}}</ref> Such people initially called themselves "[[lycanthropy|lycanthropes]]", but since the word more accurately describes wolf-people, the word "therianthropes" became more popular.

When people believe they change into an animal form (''theriomorphosis''), or possess supernatural non-human animal traits, the term [[clinical lycanthropy]] is often used. This classification is a form of mental illness, though many anthropologists would point out that the belief has extensive religious precedent in [[shaman]]ic cultures. Likewise, people who call themselves [[shapeshifter|shapechangers]] as a form of social identification are generally not considered ill by mental health professionals unless their beliefs interfere with the normal functioning of their lives. This can be a controversial issue, as the line between what the Western mind passes off as a strange or alternative belief and what is considered a mental illness is indistinct.

==Varieties==
Terms referring to specific varieties of therianthropy are based on [[Greek mythology|Greek]] words for specific animals combined with ''anthropos''. A nearly endless number of types of therianthropy could thus be referred to by their own individual terms, though most of these would be neologisms. Rare alternate derivations based on Latin are considered nonstandard at best, incorrect at worst, because they both break precedent and mix a Latin prefix with a Greek suffix. Other than lycanthropy, cynanthropy and ailuranthropy are the best known varieties <ref name="Greene 229">{{cite book| last=Greene| first= R.| year=2000| title=The Magic of Shapeshifting| location=York Beach, ME| publisher=Weiser| id= ISBN 1-57863-171-8| pages=229}}</ref> Cynanthropy existed by at least 1901, when the term was applied to myths from [[China]] about humans turning into [[dog]]s, dogs becoming people, and [[zoophilia|sexual relations between humans and canines]] <ref name="De Groot 184">{{cite book| last= De Groot| first= J.J.M.| year=1901| title=The Religious System of China: Volume IV| location= Leiden| publisher= Brill| pages=184}}</ref>. Ailuranthropy is the same, but with [[cat]]s.

===Lycanthropy===

The most commonly known form of therianthropy is [[lycanthropy]], from the Greek word ''lykos'' ("[[wolf]]"), the technical term for man-wolf ([[werewolf]]) transformations (Rose, 230). Although the precise definition of lycanthropy specifically refers only to werewolves, the term is often used to refer to the process of [[shapeshift]]ing to any non-human animal form.

===Cynanthropy===

The [[Greek mythology|Greeks]] also spoke of cynanthropy (''Kynior,'' [[dog]]). Cynanthropy, sometimes spelled kynanthropy, is applied to shapeshifters who alternate between [[dog]] form and human form, or to beings that do not shapeshift but possess combined dog and human anatomical features (Hamel, 76). It is also used for real persons suffering from the delusion that they are dogs (Ashley, 37). The term existed by at least 1901, when it was applied to myths from [[China]] about humans turning into dogs, dogs becoming people, and sexual relations between humans and canines (De Groot, 184). After lycanthropy, cynanthropy is the best known term for a specific variety of therianthropy.

Anthropologist David Gordon White called Central Asia the "vortex of cynanthropy" because races of dog-men were habitually placed there by ancient writers. Hindu mythology puts races of "Dog Cookers" to the far north of India, the Chinese placed the "Dog Jung" and other human/canine barbarians to the extreme west, and European legends frequently put the dog men called Cynocephali in unmapped regions to the east. Some of these races were described as humans with dog heads, others as canine shapeshifters (White, 114-15).

The weredog or cynanthrope is also known in Timor. It is described as a human/canine shapeshifter who is also capable of transforming other people into animals against their wills. These transformations are usually into prey animals such as goats, so that the cynanthrope can devour them without discovery of the crime (Rose, 390).

===Ailuranthropy===

Ailuranthropy refers to human/feline transformations (also known as [[werecat]]s), or to other beings that combine feline and human characteristics (Greene, 229). Its root word is also used in ailurophobia, the most common term for a phobia of cats. Ailuros is also a Greek name for [[Bast]].

===Musoanthropy===

Musoanthropy refers to human/mouse transformations, or to other beings that combine mice and human characteristics. Its root word in Greek is also used in musophobia, or phobia of mice. Musomania describes a fondness or interest in mice. <ref>http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1347</ref>

===Regional varieties===

Therianthropy or various terms relating to subtypes can refer to any sort of werebeast or to transformation into any animal. In India & the Asian islands the [[tiger]] is the most common form, in North Europe the [[bear (species)|bear]] (see [[berserker]]), in Japan the [[fox]], in Africa the [[leopard]] or [[hyena]], sometimes also the [[lion]], in South America the [[jaguar]]; but though there is a tendency for the most important carnivorous animal of the area to take the first place in stories and beliefs as to transformation, the less important beasts of prey and even harmless animals like the [[deer]] also figure among the were-animals. Another unusual case is the were-[[shark]] of Polynesia.

== Modern subcultural use of the term ==

=== Beliefs and origins ===

In recent times, a [[Wikipedia:Subculture|subculture]] has developed that has adopted the word ''therianthropy'' to describe a sense of intense [[furry spirituality|spiritual]] or psychological identification with a non-human animal. Members of this subculture typically refer to themselves as ''therianthropes'' or ''therians''. The word ''[[were]]'' was also common at one point, in reference to shapeshifting creatures of legend such as [[Werewolf|werewolves]], [[were]][[tiger]]s and the like, but is less common these days. One reason for the waning use of the term "were" is its growing use in the furry community to mean a more "bestial" style furry. This can be the cause of quite a few more misunderstandings between the therian and furry communities.

The [[Usenet]] group [[alt.horror.werewolves]] was founded in 1992, and in its earliest days the members discussed fictional [[shapeshifting|shapeshifters]]. Some posters began to publicly claim that they considered themselves to be partially non-human animal. A number of these people were only joking, but enough people were serious about it that it became a trend. Others who professed the same beliefs soon joined the group. The earliest therians called themselves ''lycanthropes'', but as that word more accurately describes wolf-people, ''therianthropes'' was chosen as a more inclusive term.

Those within this subculture who identify with a spiritual understanding of this phenomenon may believe that they have the spirit or soul, in whole or in part, of a non-human animal, and their beliefs often overlap to some extent with aspects of [[Wikipedia:Shamanism|shamanism]] or [[animal totem|totemism]]. Some also draw inspiration from stories of shapeshifting in [[Wikipedia:Celtic mythology|Celtic]], [[Wikipedia:Norse mythology|Norse]] and [[Wikipedia:Native American mythology|Native American]] myths, among others. The term ''spiritual therianthropy'' is often used to differentiate this definition of therianthropy from others. However, shamanism and totemism are not an intrinsic part of therianthropy. Some spiritual therianthropes may express a belief that they were an animal in a [[wikipedia:Past life|past life]] that was [[wikipedia:Reincarnation|reincarnated]] as a [[human]].

Those who prefer a psychological explanation may simply describe it as having a non-human animal side to their personality or nature, with some believing that it may be due to some sort of unusual [[wikipedia:Neurophysiology|neurophysiology]], as is thought to be the case with syndromes like attention deficit disorder and autism. Others believe that their genes are partially non-human, but this explanation is unproven, scientifically implausible, and not favored by many. Most of those who support the explanation of atypical neuropsychology, however, do not appear to regard it as innately dysfunctional.

In either case, the identification with the non-human animal may be partial, as in those who regard themselves as having both human and non-human attributes, or complete, as in those who regard themselves as essentially non-human animals in human bodies. The terms ''species dysphoria'' and ''transspeciesism'' have occasionally been used to refer to the latter phenomenon, in parallel with the concepts of gender dysphoria and [[Transsexual|transsexuality]].

Most therians identify with a single type of non-human animal, but there are some who identify with more than one — sometimes related animals, as in several different species of [[feline]] or [[canine]], for example, but sometimes completely dissimilar animals. Those who identify with all members of one family — for instance, someone who claims to have characteristics of all felines — is called a ''cladotherianthrope''. The species of non-human animal with which a particular therian identifies is sometimes referred to as that person's ''theriotype'' or ''[[phenotype]]''. The term phenotype was originally more common but has fallen into disuse because it also refers to physical appearance.

The majority of therianthropes identify as [[feline]] or [[canine]], often big cats and wolves<ref>[http://archive.werelist.com/modules.php?name=Demographics&op=show_statistics&showpage=pheno1 Species survey by the Werelist]</ref>, but there are also [[reptile]]s, [[bird|avians]], other [[mammal]]s, and [[insects]]. Some skeptics argue that, because of the preponderance of large [[carnivore]]s, most therians are only faking and are purposefully choosing impressive animals for ego-based purposes. There are also some individuals who identify with mythical species (e.g. [[dragon]]s, [[Wikipedia:Elf|elves]], [[gryphon]]s, [[centaur]]s and so forth), but they are usually categorized in the broader [[otherkin]] community rather than as therians.

Therianthropes may describe their nature as manifesting in terms of their cognitive processes, their outlook on life, their inner reactions and [[Wikipedia:Instinct|instinct]]s, their senses, or through their physical body, though claims of actual physical variations from the norm tend to be regarded with skepticism both within and outside the subculture. The human and non-human aspects of the self may cooperate or conflict, leading to happiness or unhappy dysfunction, and may take much self-discovery to begin to understand or accept. Because this is a personal perception of self, the ways in which a person describes his or her self-identification as a therianthrope vary considerably.

A controversial aspect of therianthropy is the subject of ''shifting'' (a shortened word for shapeshifting), which generally refers to any manner by which a therianthrope's nature may become evidenced internally (to themselves) or externally to others. Few people within the subculture doubt that shifts of mental and emotional perception may occur; some therianthropes also claim to experience a physical change to their appearance, an event known as ''physical shifting'' (or ''P-shifting''). Many in the therianthrope subculture doubt that physical changes actually occur; the overwhelming majority of those outside of the culture completely deny that any real physical shifting can occur.

Some of the rationally minded, skeptical therianthropes suggest that their therianthropy may be a mental or psychological condition, possibly with a spiritual or religious component. Advocates of this viewpoint can be found on the forums at Werelist.com (see below).

=== Subculture ===

Therianthropy as a subculture does not have any central dogma or tenets, nor any recognized authority. Those who have been around for a long time are generally listened to, though less out of any perceived spiritual authority than simple acknowledgment of experience.{{fact}} The word [[greymuzzle]] is often used tongue-in-cheek to describe these people.

While there is no official offline social organization, there exists a [[:Category:Community|community]] of therians with many diverse outlooks on the concept, including [[Christian]]s, [[Wikipedia:Pagan|Pagan]]s, and [[Wikipedia:Atheism|atheist]]s. As could be expected, disagreements are frequent, and the many online [[forum]]s and [[:Category:Chat rooms|chat rooms]] of the community each have their own "atmosphere," ranging from total acceptance to scornful cynicism.{{fact}} There have been intermittent "real-world" gatherings, referred to as ''[[howls]]'', but their purpose is primarily social.

==== Therianthropy and species dysphoria ====

Therianthropy is closely related to [[wikipedia:Species dysphoria|species dysphoria]], a condition similar to [[Wikipedia:Gender_Dysphoria|gender dysphoria]] in which the person has the body of a human, but the identity of an animal. Many therians admit to having at least mild species dysphoria, and today, many therians believe that species dysphoria is simply another "symptom" of therianthropy.

==== Therianthropy vs. clinical lycanthropy ====

Spiritual therianthropy is not automatically the same as clinical lycanthropy, a mental illness in which an individual believes he or she belongs to or can change to another [[species]]. While some therianthropes believe they can take on the mindset of their "other side" in what is referred to as a ''mental shift'', they believe that they retain control during these transformations and are no greater danger to themselves or others. The term ''contherianthropes'' is sometimes used for those who do not claim to mentally shift but believe they have human and non-human sides which are mixed up into a single unchanging whole.

==== Therianthropy and furry ====

Therianthropy should not be confused with the [[furry fandom]], and mistaking them for one another can cause offense to many therians and furries alike, though some intermixing of the groups does occur. Therianthropes tend to be more focused on the sense of an animal within, an animal side to their nature, or spiritual concepts; by contrast, [[furry|furries]] are more commonly focused on furry [[art]] and/or [[role-playing]] related to [[anthropomorphic]] non-humans. There is some overlap with those who identify themselves with each group or view the other positively, as well as those in each group who view the other negatively. For instance, some furries view therianthropy as "taking it too far," or may think of therians as being just plain weird. At the same time, many therians dislike furries because of their perceived lack of understanding of therianthropy itself, which can lead to confusion, or because they perceive the fandom as being primarily sexual.

==== Therians and shamanism ====

Therianthropy and shamanism have a great deal in common at the basic level. Many therians believe in Shamanic and mystic ideas. Many who practice shamanism hold an interest in therianthropy. Many therianthropes claim to have spirit guides, or [[totem]]s. However, a therian's totem is not necessarily the same animal as their theriotype, and having or invoking a totem animal alone does not make a person a therian.

== Therian ==

'''Therians''' are people who believe that they are, in whole or in part, a non-human animal. That is to say that part of their core being is a non-human animal, be it spiritually, mentally, et cetera. Unlike [[furry lifestyle]]rs, therians do not necessarily try to outwardly project their animalistic nature, nor do they choose their animal side. They consider themselves to be an animal within.

== Shifts ==

There are three categorized types of ''shifts'' acknowledged by the therian community:
* '''Mental (M-Shift)''' - A change in psychological state, where a person thinks and behaves more like their theriotype animal.
* '''Spiritual (S-Shift)''' - A change in spiritual state, often broken down by type (astral shifting, auric shifting, etc). The spiritual self, astral body, or aura change to resemble the theriotype animal.
* '''Physical (P-Shift)''' - A change in physical state, physically changing to become more like, or entirely like, their theriotype animal. Controversial, and largely thought to be impossible by the therian community.

Other types of shifts have been categorized from these terms and can be found in the links as listed below.

Shifting, in general, means times when animalistic aspects become, dominant over human aspects of the person's personality or spiritual form. This may include, but not be limited to, feelings of "phantom limbs" or fur, keener senses, desires to bite or hunt, feelings of instincts not usual to humans, etc. This is distinct from invocation of a totem entity, or from any state induced by drugs or guided trances, as it is natural to the individual in question and can generally be easily called upon through simple concentration or will. Occasionally it is involuntary, but generally not to extremes (making it distinct, in the case of m-shifting, from psychological lycanthropy). M-shifting may be minor (animalistic aspects come to the forefront, but only in small ways, and the human persona remains dominant) or major (the therian can no longer speak, may have trouble walking upright, and can no longer behave in a human fashion).

==== P-shifting ====

P-shifting is the most controversial. As a general rule, it's more used as a term to discuss fictional [[transformation]]s rather than literal ones; people claiming to p-shift in any way are usually met with aggressive skepticism and are often accused of being [[roleplay]]ers. No concrete evidence has been offered of physical shapeshifting.

Some Therian groups view the "physical shift" as NOT being an actual change into an animal, but an intense physiological change, which may include heightened senses, increased strength, etc, depending on the animal in question.

== Therian and furry lifestylers ==

Therians differ from the [[Furry lifestyle|furry lifestyle]] in that they do not feel a need to costume themselves or pretend to be their animal--they feel they already are their animal, inside, and must cope with this rather than promoting it to the world. Furry lifestylers wish to become and behave like their animal, while therians believe they already are their animal. This is not to say someone cannot be both! There are a number of therians in the furry community (and of course, vice versa). Being therian is not a lifestyle choice, but being furry is--a therian can make that choice as well.

Therians also do not, in any way, choose their animal side. Most believe they are born with it. It may take a lot of introspection and soul-searching for some therians to come to terms with their animal nature. The therian nature is not based on stereotypes (such as a wolf howling at the moon, or a lion's courage), but instead reflects the living animal's behavior more closely.

Therian nature is distinct from aspects of shamanism or working with totem spirits. Therians do not acquire their animal traits from outside of themselves, via invocation of a spirit.

Usually, therians have one animal aspect, or [[theriotype]] (formerly referred to as the [[phenotype]]), but some have two or more. Generally, these people are referred to as ''Polyweres'' [alternate term: Pan-Therian], and can be a source of controversy, as single-aspect therians often cannot relate to how a multiple-animal therian could exist, especially in the context of having an animal soul. Many are therian-[[otherkin]] mixes, such as wolf/dragons or cat/vampires. In cases where a therian has two theriotypes (such as wolf and cougar) they do not manifest a hybrid or mixture of traits, but may shift to one or the other at various times--not simultaneously. A therian who manifests a hybrid theriotype (such as a wolf-cat hybrid, for example) is often considered to be more properly otherkin, rather than specifically therian.

== See also ==

* [[Lifestylers]]
* [[Otherkin]]
* [[Wikipedia:Therianthropy|Therianthropy]] on Wikipedia

==References==
<references />
*''This article incorporates text from the [[wikipedia:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]], a publication now in the [[wikipedia:public domain|public domain]].''
* OED (1933) Vol XI p 288
* Encyclopaedia Britannica (1886) Vol XX p 367 (C.P.Teile)
* Cohen, D. (1996) ''Werewolves.'' New York: Penguin. ISBN 0525652078
* De Groot, J.J.M. (1901) ''The Religious System of China: Volume IV'' Leiden: Brill.
* Greene, R. (2000) ''The Magic of Shapeshifting.'' York Beach, ME: Weiser. ISBN 1578631718
* Steiger, B. (1999) ''The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings.'' Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink. ISBN 1578590787

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* [http://www.werelibrary.org The WereLibrary]
* [[:wikia:c:therian|Therian.Wikia]]
* [http://anotherwiki.org AnOtherWiki]
* [http://www.swampfox.demon.co.uk/utlah/ Wereweb]
* [http://www.project-shift.org Project Shift]
* [http://www.oocities.org/rainforest/canopy/1927/greenspiral/resource.html The Therianthropy Resource]
* [http://yaiolani.tripod.com/humfaq.htm Shifter FAQ]
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Lysozyme

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'''Lysozyme''' (real name '''Juan Crespo'''), is a [[furry artist]] living in [[W:Florida|Florida]], USA.

== Art ==

His art style is [[cartoon]]y, with often a heavy dose of humor. He also programs video games, previously with the [[Blitz3D]] programming language, but now with [[W:Adobe Flash|Adobe Flash]]. He is known for humorous art series such as [http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Lysozyme/Folios/Awful%20Ads/index01.html Awful Ads] and [http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Lysozyme/Folios/Wacky%20Labels/index01.html Wacky Labels].

== Fursona ==

Lysozyme's [[fursona]] is a brownish [[bipedal]] [[dinosaur]]-like creature (an [[alien]], actually) with large triangular ears, although he has other [[character]]s as well. One of his characters is a blue [[kangaroo]] called '''Blue Roo'''.

==External links==

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020602201618/http://www.ld5.hn.org/members/lysozyme/ Lysozyme's Pad] - Lysozyme's official homepage (retrieved via the Internet Wayback Machine)
* [http://lysozyme.deviantart.com Lysozyme] on [[deviantART]] (no longer updated)
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lysozyme Lysozyme] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Lysozyme/ Lysozyme] on [[VCL]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/LysozymePad Lysozyme] on [[YouTube]]

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List of characters in Badly Drawn Kitties

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The following is a '''list of characters in the webcomic ''[[Badly Drawn Kitties]]'''''.

==Characters==

[[Image:BDK-Lucy-Jezzebel.png|250px|thumb|left|Lucy (left) and Jezzebel (right) - December 29, 2004]]

===Lucy===
A black cat with white hair, '''Lucy Koneko''' is the main character of the strip, with many of the stories dealing with her sexual romps and relationships. She is [[bisexual]], but is mostly [[lesbian]]. So far she has been in relationships with her one-time boss [[Zig Zag]]; an incestuous relationship with her brother Fisk; and is currently dating a co-worker, Jezzebel. She has routinely tried to get her roommate Lydia to have sex with her, but she refuses; Lucy has since stopped trying due to Lydia's relationship with Dirk, and her own with Jezzebel.

She has lived in New Talia for the last few years after moving from Atlanta, Georgia; and currently works as an editor for Sonica, a music magazine. She originally worked there as their harshest, most vicious music critic; Lucy also composed music for some of Zig Zag's movies, wrote songs and produced an album for a band, and even appeared as a professional wrestler's on-air [[mate|girlfriend]].

[[Image:BDK-Lydia-Dirk.png|250px|thumb|right|Lydia (left) and Dirk (right) - October 18, 2004]]

===Lydia===

A white cat with black hair, and Lucy's childhood friend, she works at the ''White Cat'' tattoo, fur dying and body piercing parlor. Lydia is originally from Atlanta, and followed Lucy to New Talia where they share an apartment. Lydia is totally straight—although she once thought she might have been bisexual—and resists Lucy's come-ons. It's at work that she met her boyfriend, Dirk who was in getting a body piercing. On October 18, 2004, Dirk asked her to marry him, and on August 31, 2005, they were married.

===Dirk===

Dirk is a [[male]] cat who came into Lydia's parlor for some body piercing, specifically his [[genitalia|scrotum]]; when Lydia saw his "equipment", she was immediately enamored by him. He currently runs his own music store. During the ''New Talian Idol'' incident, Lydia and Dirk got in a fight when Lucy tried to use him to get some of her co-workers off her back, but things got a little too comfy, and Lydia got a little too jealous. After a while, they got back together. They married on August 31, 2005. Jay Naylor came up with the name ''Dirk Savagewood'', because it sounded like a good name for a porn actor.

===Fisk===

Fisk is Lucy's twin brother, and they have been in an incestuous relationship since before they came to New Talia. At first Fisk worked as a security guard for Zig Zag, but after a while, moved back to the U.S. and joined the army, following in his father's footsteps. Sadly, Fisk also followed his father's footsteps right into his grave; his father died in the Vietnam War, and Fisk was killed in Iraq.

Fisk was created by Jay Naylor, and was friends with Mat for a time; so Fisk was included in BDK, while Lucy appears in Jay's comic, ''[[Better Days]]''. The two had a falling out, which would explain Fisk's lack of presence in the comic, and his death. Lucy still appears in ''Better Days''.

===Jezzebel===

A [[bat]] with one eye; she is Fisk's former girlfriend, and now Lucy's girlfriend. Lucy first meets Jezzebel when they are buying birthday presents for Fisk; at said party, they are formally introduced. When Fisk gets drunk, Lucy offers Jezzebel a ride home, one thing led to another, and Lucy woke up in Jezzebel's bed. Shortly after Lucy returned to Sonica, Jezzebel and Lucy started dating. She works in Sonica's mail room.

===Zig Zag===

A skunk with a distinctive tiger-stripe pattern, [[Zig Zag]] is the owner and star of [[Double Z Studios]], an adult film studio, and is the creation of [[Max Black Rabbit]]. For a while she and Lucy dated. With both of them being almost totally promiscuous, it seemed like a perfect match; even though Lucy still made out with Fisk, and Zig Zag still made out with almost anybody with a pulse. When Lucy lost her job at Sonica over the ''New Talian Idol'' incident, Zig Zag offered her a job composing music for her movies. After Lucy was rehired at Sonica, the two have drifted apart. They are still friends but are no longer dating; Lucy says it's because of Zig Zag's eye for Double Z's [[Sabrina|web mistress]].

==Other characters==

===Desi===

A black cat who was once Lucy's boss at Sonica. She was the one who pegged Lucy for the host position on ''New Talian Idol'', and she received a hairspray enema for her trouble. When Lucy was rehired at Sonica, Desi was demoted for causing the whole mess, and Lucy was now her boss. It was too much for Desi, and later on she quit. Desi now hosts ''New Talian Idol''.

===Dirk's parents===

Dirk's parents show up just in time for his and Lydia's wedding. They are divorced, and it seems they are not from North America—or at least his father isn't—as there is a reference to "football" being the same as "soccer". Dirk's father's name is Kirk, and his mother's name is Carol.

===Linda===

Dirk's sister, who has been in England for the last five years. When Lucy tried to get Dirk and Lydia back together, she found him with another woman, not knowing that it was his sister. Unlike Lucy and Fisk, there is nothing more to their relationship.

[[Image:BDK-Lola.png|frame|left|Lola the Comedy Kitten - September 26, 2002]]

===Lola the Comedy Kitten===

A cat who appears every now and then when Mat can't come up with a good way to end a comic, usually by making some random comment on the current goings on, or doing something completely irrelevant; as such, she often talks to the audience directly, breaking the [[Wikipedia:fourth wall|fourth wall]]. Unlike the other characters, Lola takes the shape of a normal cat.

One time when Mat was feeling down, Amber, creator of [[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]] kidnapped Lola and threatened to change her into a succubus if Mat didn't pay her a ransom of jellybeans, but no licorice ones. Lucy's answer was to kidnap all of DMFA's mows, which proved disastrous, and Amber turned Lola into a succubus. She is now promising much revenge on Mat.

:Succubus Lola makes an appearance in DMFA in the background of [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_512.php comic #512].

[[Image:BDK-LydiasParents.png|250px|thumb|right|Lydia's parents - December 13, 2002]]

===Lydia's parents===

Lydia takes very much after her mother, right down to their inability to drink alcohol—both get drunk whenever the slightest bit touches their lips. Ironically, Lydia's father looks like an older version of Dirk, although this could be the result of Mat's simplistic art style leaving little room for character variation. Lydia's mother's name is Delia, while her father's name was recently retconned to "Charles"; it was originally given as "Albert".

===Mat===

The author of the comic. Mat inserts himself occasionally when there is need to talk about the direction the comic is going. In real life, Mat works at a Pizza Hut, loves music, and was a professional wrestling fan, though horribly disappointed by it now. Mat isn't really a part of the comic continuity, and like Lola, often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the audience directly.

===Nikashi===

A friend of Dirk's who works at his record store. He's also Sally's boyfriend.

===Sally===

A heavily tattooed woman who works with Lydia. In a Halloween strip, it is revealed she is actually a carnivorous [[demon]] from the depths of Hell. It's unknown if her boyfriend Nikashi knows.

===Sheila===

Lucy and Fisk's mother, she has appeared frequently through the comic. Even though she often asks Lucy if she's got a boyfriend, she suspects that her daughter is gay; she accepts her daughter is bisexual, but Sheila hopes that Lucy will at least get a boyfriend and mother a child at some point.

===Snow===

A pet [[ferret]] that Lucy bought Lydia during her break-up with Dirk. Lydia named her ''Snow'' (short for ''Snowball'') because her fur is completely white, a la Snow White.

===Vincent Rann===

The president of Ranntech, he is a billionaire who bought Sonica magazine. Shortly after, he tried to sue Lucy for $1.5 million for damages related to the ''New Talian Idol'' incident. Lucy counter sued, forcing an out of court settlement. Rann didn't like that he had to bow down at all and has tried various schemes to make her life a living hell.

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== Redirect to minor sexual organ components (part #7) ==

Once more, again, one more time: No all the '''secondary organic parts of a sexual organ''' need to have it's own '''redirect''' or '''article'''. Those can be linked to its associate main organ via internal link, e.g. [[Vagina|Vulva]], main anatomical part [[Genitalia|Penis]], or a direct to a Wikipedia link ([[W:Penis|Sheath]]).

Going this path, again, will result on a cascade effect ('''Clitoris''', '''Hood''', '''Labia Minora''', '''G-Spot''', etc...), which could result in conflicting redirects (Sheath may refer to both a part of the Penes on certain male animals, but also describes the female vagina), or double classification: [[W:Anus|Anus]]; part of the digestive or sexual system?.

This has been indicate to you more than a dozen times: Can't tell if misguided "good faith" edit, stubbornness or trolling. Really, it's getting tiresome to delete and repeat this explanation several times over. Please continue with the helpful edits, please restrain from [[sex]]ually over-redirecting the Wiki. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 03:05, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:Yes, they were all "good-faith" edits. [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 20:02, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

== (Via FA note. Thanks) ==

Well, it's not "meaningful good faith" and "stubbornness" after all, was it?. Thank to a heads up, here the point: We have other EDitors (including [[ED]] sysops) helping with Wikifur articles (note "helping"), so now that somebody outed your cover, all [[sexual]]/[[genitalia]] edits are considered suspect or [[troll]]ing (e.g. [[Dolphin]]).

Yes, other EDitors have had a added their "brand' of editing along helpful ones, but (A) They have no problems being honest about who they really are (ED EDitors and/or Staff), nor it is skin of their nose to actually add something valuable while (B) smacking the Wiki around from time to time. Tl;dr: They are honest about, and this is a note to "tone down' in the future. Hope this helps. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 19:47, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:I haven't made any significant edits, except for simple linking and copyediting. [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 20:01, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
::(''"I haven't made any significant edits"'')... Accessed a non-sexual article's ([[Dolphin]]) history change page, [http://en.wikifur.com/w/index.php?title=Genitalia&diff=432702&oldid=424334 selected and copied non-relevant section deleted priorly and copy/pasted the 2,932 character long section into the article] "[[Genitalia]]".
::Please do continue with the helpful edits only, thank you. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 20:32, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:::I [http://en.wikifur.com/w/index.php?title=Genitalia&diff=next&oldid=432703 removed that paragraph] after I posted it there, so it doesn't make much difference. [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 22:26, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

User:Jarble

2014-07-08T00:04:28Z

Jarble: Created page with 'On this wiki, I mainly focus on linking and copyediting.'

On this wiki, I mainly focus on linking and copyediting.

User talk:Jarble

2014-07-08T00:02:28Z

Jarble: /* (Via FA note. Thanks) */

User talk:Jarble

2014-07-08T00:02:01Z

Jarble: /* Redirect to minor sexual organ components (part #7) */

== Redirect to minor sexual organ components (part #7) ==

Once more, again, one more time: No all the '''secondary organic parts of a sexual organ''' need to have it's own '''redirect''' or '''article'''. Those can be linked to its associate main organ via internal link, e.g. [[Vagina|Vulva]], main anatomical part [[Genitalia|Penis]], or a direct to a Wikipedia link ([[W:Penis|Sheath]]).

Going this path, again, will result on a cascade effect ('''Clitoris''', '''Hood''', '''Labia Minora''', '''G-Spot''', etc...), which could result in conflicting redirects (Sheath may refer to both a part of the Penes on certain male animals, but also describes the female vagina), or double classification: [[W:Anus|Anus]]; part of the digestive or sexual system?.

This has been indicate to you more than a dozen times: Can't tell if misguided "good faith" edit, stubbornness or trolling. Really, it's getting tiresome to delete and repeat this explanation several times over. Please continue with the helpful edits, please restrain from [[sex]]ually over-redirecting the Wiki. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 03:05, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:Yes, they were all "good-faith" edits. [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 20:02, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

== (Via FA note. Thanks) ==

Well, it's not "meaningful good faith" and "stubbornness" after all, was it?. Thank to a heads up, here the point: We have other EDitors (including [[ED]] sysops) helping with Wikifur articles (note "helping"), so now that somebody outed your cover, all [[sexual]]/[[genitalia]] edits are considered suspect or [[troll]]ing (e.g. [[Dolphin]]).

Yes, other EDitors have had a added their "brand' of editing along helpful ones, but (A) They have no problems being honest about who they really are (ED EDitors and/or Staff), nor it is skin of their nose to actually add something valuable while (B) smacking the Wiki around from time to time. Tl;dr: They are honest about, and this is a note to "tone down' in the future. Hope this helps. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 19:47, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:I haven't made any significant edits, except for simple linking and copyediting. I don't think it would be possible for these edits to be considered "trolling". [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 20:01, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

User talk:Jarble

2014-07-08T00:01:16Z

Jarble: /* (Via FA note. Thanks) */

== Redirect to minor sexual organ components (part #7) ==

Once more, again, one more time: No all the '''secondary organic parts of a sexual organ''' need to have it's own '''redirect''' or '''article'''. Those can be linked to its associate main organ via internal link, e.g. [[Vagina|Vulva]], main anatomical part [[Genitalia|Penis]], or a direct to a Wikipedia link ([[W:Penis|Sheath]]).

Going this path, again, will result on a cascade effect ('''Clitoris''', '''Hood''', '''Labia Minora''', '''G-Spot''', etc...), which could result in conflicting redirects (Sheath may refer to both a part of the Penes on certain male animals, but also describes the female vagina), or double classification: [[W:Anus|Anus]]; part of the digestive or sexual system?.

This has been indicate to you more than a dozen times: Can't tell if misguided "good faith" edit, stubbornness or trolling. Really, it's getting tiresome to delete and repeat this explanation several times over. Please continue with the helpful edits, please restrain from [[sex]]ually over-redirecting the Wiki. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 03:05, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

== (Via FA note. Thanks) ==

Well, it's not "meaningful good faith" and "stubbornness" after all, was it?. Thank to a heads up, here the point: We have other EDitors (including [[ED]] sysops) helping with Wikifur articles (note "helping"), so now that somebody outed your cover, all [[sexual]]/[[genitalia]] edits are considered suspect or [[troll]]ing (e.g. [[Dolphin]]).

Yes, other EDitors have had a added their "brand' of editing along helpful ones, but (A) They have no problems being honest about who they really are (ED EDitors and/or Staff), nor it is skin of their nose to actually add something valuable while (B) smacking the Wiki around from time to time. Tl;dr: They are honest about, and this is a note to "tone down' in the future. Hope this helps. - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 19:47, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:I haven't made any significant edits, except for simple linking and copyediting. I don't think it would be possible for these edits to be considered "trolling". [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 20:01, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

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2014-07-07T23:56:51Z

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==[[Maxwell Rodgers]]==

How come you do not let me edit my own page and keep reverting it? Ive been trying to keep it blank until i have the info written properly, I'm sorry if that i upset you, but you have all the wrong information on this site. Maxwell Rodgers IS NOT a person, HE IS MY FURSONA. I have not and will not give you my real name. Please let me edit or tell me how to make so you understand that Maxwell Rodgers is my FURSONA, I don't know where to put it. Please help. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Maxwell5050|Maxwell5050]] ([[User talk:Maxwell5050|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Maxwell5050|contribs]]) .</small>

:Within the fandom, it is normal for people to refer to themselves as their fursonas, but if this is the case, I'm sure we would be glad to correct the article. However, bear in mind that this is not "your own page". It is "''our'' page about your character". While you may own copyright on, say, a story which you wrote about your character, you do not own the right to control factual descriptions of your character by others, just as anyone may write a Wikipedia article about Harry Potter. We will seek to write the best article that we can with the details publicly available. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]<sup>([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]])</sup> 17:14, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

== I understand now. ==

''Moved to [[Talk:Maxwell Rodgers#I understand now.|Talk:Maxwell Rodgers]]''. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]<sup>([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]])</sup> 20:00, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

== Deletion of redirect pages ==
I have fixed several broken links on this site by creating redirect pages, but many of these pages have been deleted. I'm confused: why is this happening? :/ [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 02:55, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:See your talk page - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 03:06, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
::I have made several links and copyedits to pages on this site, but several of my other edits have been reverted recently. I'm very confused: which of my edits are considered problematic? [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 19:55, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

User talk:Spirou

2014-07-07T23:55:43Z

Jarble:

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'''Older conversations have been archived. Please view the links on the right review old threads.'''

==[[Maxwell Rodgers]]==

How come you do not let me edit my own page and keep reverting it? Ive been trying to keep it blank until i have the info written properly, I'm sorry if that i upset you, but you have all the wrong information on this site. Maxwell Rodgers IS NOT a person, HE IS MY FURSONA. I have not and will not give you my real name. Please let me edit or tell me how to make so you understand that Maxwell Rodgers is my FURSONA, I don't know where to put it. Please help. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Maxwell5050|Maxwell5050]] ([[User talk:Maxwell5050|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Maxwell5050|contribs]]) .</small>

:Within the fandom, it is normal for people to refer to themselves as their fursonas, but if this is the case, I'm sure we would be glad to correct the article. However, bear in mind that this is not "your own page". It is "''our'' page about your character". While you may own copyright on, say, a story which you wrote about your character, you do not own the right to control factual descriptions of your character by others, just as anyone may write a Wikipedia article about Harry Potter. We will seek to write the best article that we can with the details publicly available. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]<sup>([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]])</sup> 17:14, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

== I understand now. ==

''Moved to [[Talk:Maxwell Rodgers#I understand now.|Talk:Maxwell Rodgers]]''. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]<sup>([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]])</sup> 20:00, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

== Deletion of redirect pages ==
I have fixed several broken links on this site by creating redirect pages, but many of these pages have been deleted. I'm confused: why is this happening? :/ [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 02:55, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
:See your talk page - [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] ([[User talk:Spirou|talk]]) 03:06, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
::Several of my other edits have been reverted recently. I'm very confused: why are my edits considered problematic? [[User:Jarble|Jarble]] ([[User talk:Jarble|talk]]) 19:55, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

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2014-07-07T23:35:04Z

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[[File:Fursuit Markus Hug.JPG|right|thumb|[[Markus]] offering a hug.]]
[[File:Autumn 012.jpg|thumb|right|[[Autumn Vixen]] poses in fursuit.]]
'''Fursuits''', originally known as '''zoots''',<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref><ref name="Zoot">[http://www.furrydolphin.net/2009_files/furry-history.html Lifestylers and costuming/"zooting"] on the ''[[An Informal History of Furry Fandom]]'' essay by [[Simo]]. Retrieved June 25, 2014.</ref> are [[animal]] based [[costume]]s associated with the [[furry fandom]]. The term, coined in 1993 by [[Robert King]],<ref>[[Critter Costuming]], p13 - Robert King mentions inventing the term ''fursuit'' back in 1993 for the title of an amateur costumers' mailing list about the then-unnamed hobby while on the way back from a conference, in part as a pun on the word ''pursuit''{{fact}}</ref> can also refer to animal [[mascot]] costumes in general,{{cn}} as opposed to [[human]] or [[anthropomorphic|anthropomorphized]] object mascots.{{clarify}}

Owners are known as '''[[:Category:Fursuiters|fursuiters]]''', '''furzooters''', or '''suiter'''/'''zooters''', while the act of wearing a fursuit is usually referred to as '''''fursuiting''''' (originally as '''''zooting''''', named after the [[W:Chicano|Chicano]] [[W:Zoot suit|zoot suiter]]s of the [[W:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] area of the [[W:1940|1940]]s).<ref name="Zoot" />

==History==

Fursuiting as a permanent feature and practice within the fandom likely dates to the pre-convention era (1984-1989),{{cn}} when the first furry parties were being organized at both [[sci-fi]] conventions and home parties. By [[Confurence 0]] in 1989 (the first hotel-based [[furry convention]]), a programming track called "Furry Costuming" was held at the hotel at which it took place.{{cn}}

Many have commented on the change which occurred in the growing fandom when graphic artists, many of whom were native to the [[funny animal]] fandom era,{{clarify}} shared more attention with costumers,{{clarify}} resulting in the artists' booths being overshadowed by the presence of costumers at conventions and furry parties<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/98297bd0b163b276/aa1b5bd5eb53f70c?lnk=gst ''When did Fursuiters take over furry fandom?''] post by [[Joe Strike]] to [[alt.fan.furry]], Nov 30 2008. Retrieved ?.</ref>

This trend continues today, with the number of fursuiters growing exponentially every year at several furry conventions, even breaking established [[Guinness]] World Records.<ref>[http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/mass/largest_parade_of_people_in_fur_suits_Pittsburgh_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213484.html ]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref></ref> Some conventions have included since the early 2000's the position of [[Guest of Honor|Fursuiter Guest of Honor]].<ref>[https://www.rainfurrest.org/2013/goh.php ''Rainfurrest Guest of Honor''] page on the [[Rainfurrest]] official site]]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

== Types ==
[[File:GR FC2007 furry cats costumers.jpg|right|thumb|Fursuits are not always furry]]
Fursuits range from simple [[tail]]s and [[ears]] to full costumes with mechanical/electronic components. Similar to mascot suits, they allow the wearer to adopt another animal look and/or personality while in costume. Owners can spend less than one-hundred to many thousands of dollars on one fursuit,{{cn}} depending on the complexity of the design and on the materials used. These items are frequently sold at conventions, or online by either commission or auction. Furries may make their own using online tutorials and/or advice, or have hobbyist or professional [[:category:Fursuit makers|fursuit makers or companies]] fabricate them.

The standard fursuit is a full body costume that consists of a head, [[paw|forepaws]] (hands), hind paws (feet) and a body with an attached tail; in some cases, the tail is connected via a belt to the wearer and hangs out through a hole in the back of the body. Many suits include special padding or under suits to give the character its desired shape.

A ''partial suit'' or ''half-suit'' contains the above, only without the body. This allows the wearer to don ordinary clothing (or a different costume) overtop of the paws, head and tail. In partial suits, the tail is usually attached to a belt, and the arms and legs have sleeves that can go up as far as the shoulders and pelvis, respectively.

A third type known as the ''three-quarter suit'' has been developed, which consists of a head, arms and pants made to look like the legs, tail and feet of the animal in question, which works well for characters who only wear shirts.

=== Styles ===

Just like artwork, fursuits can vary in style, from the [[Kodimade|ultra-cartoony]] look, to the hyper-realistic. Now that fursuiting is becoming popular in Japan, we are beginning to see some very anime-style fursuits in that country.

== Reasons for fursuiting ==
[[File:Wgg the Gnoll.jpg|thumb|right|Wgg the Gnoll, an example of a suit that uses a mask.]]
A person who wears a fursuit generally falls into one or more of six categories.

=== Job ===

Many people wear fursuits as a [[real life]] job. This can include mascots, though not all mascots are fursuits, nor are all mascot performers furries. Many fursuiters are hired through an agency to represent a character, while others bring their own constructions to an event instead. There are also several volunteer fursuiting groups across North America that either ask or are asked to entertain at various social functions. Some groups even set up their own charitable events or perform on the streets to passersby.

=== Charity ===

Some fursuiters don their suits for non-paid charity work, such as events for social causes (animal rights) or visits to children hospitals or wards for entertainment.<re>[http://faq.fursuit.org/performance/hospitals ''Hospital/medical sites''] page on the [[Fursuit.org]] website. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

=== Event entertainment ===
[[File:FursuitDancersAC2006.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fursuit dancers at [[Anthrocon 2006]] — video by [[BigBlueFox|BBF]]: <span class="plainlinks">[http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFKdUVsjUqY 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb82sUmiCq4&NR 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWQJwQmZ0 3]</span> ]]
Other furries enjoy wearing their suits for parades, exhibitions, or [[convention]]s for simple personal fun or crowd entertainment. These fursuiters may also wear their suits to small, informal meetings among furry fans in their area.

Some may get permission to perform in or outside of a shop or event, while others may simply wear a suit in a major area, such as a mall. However, some cities have [[no-mask laws]], so individuals seeking to wear their fursuit in large, public places should check first if it's allowed before performing at that location.

=== Role-playing ===

Some [[Role-player]]ers create highly elaborate costumes (including fursuits) for their characters. Half-suits are usually created for role-playing games, though some role-players use full-body suits. These suits wear elaborate clothes and costumes of their own, depending on the theme of the game.

=== Spirituality ===

Some people (usually [[Wikipedia:otherkin|otherkin]],[[Wikipedia:therianthropy|therianthropes]] or [[furry lifestyler]]s) also fursuit for reasons of expressing what they feel is their inner animal self.{{cn}} Most of them try to make their suits as realistic and lifelike as possible.

=== Sexuality ===

A small portion of the [[furry fandom]] considers a fursuit a sexual item. Some suits may contain elaborately designed/recreated sexual features ([[genitalia|sexual organs]]), while some wearers have simple cut accesses on the suit. It is a common public [[stereotype]] that all fursuiters [[fursuit sex|use fursuiting for sex]].{{cn}}

== Construction and maintenance ==
{{main|Construction of fursuits}}

== Performance ==
[[File:Autumnfox.jpg|thumb|right|[[Summer Vixen]] and [[Autumnwah]] at [[Further Confusion 2006]].]]
A key part of playing a character in suit is an engaging performance. The most expensive fursuit in the world will not help someone who does not know how to use it. Looking good is important, but not as important as ''acting''.

How the performer acts in costume reflects on how others relate to them. If the desired character is bouncy and bubbly, then acting that way is required to communicate it to spectators.

The design of the suit plays a part in some of the moves that can be done. For example, some fursuiters with floppy muzzles nod their heads up and down rapidly to simulate laughter or enjoyment. This cannot be done with suits with a rigid muzzle, or no muzzle at all.

=== Body language ===

Fursuiters typically do not speak in costume. This may be for a variety of reasons:
* To preserve the anonymity or conceal the gender of the performer
* The design of most suits muffles the voice of the performer
* Most animals don't talk
Because of this, acting in suit is mostly about body language.

When a fursuiter ''does'' speak in costume, it is often just to their [[Fursuit handler|handler]] and/or close friends. Alternately, fursuiters may only speak in some limited fashion, either with a limited vocabulary, or simply using as few words as necessary.

Increasingly, more elaborate fursuits are being built with some form of "[[talkjaw]]". This typically involves the fursuit's lower jaw being attached to the fursuiter's chin (likely with an elastic strap around the fursuiter's head), or pressed against by the fursuiter's lower jaw in some other fashion. This enables the fursuiter to talk.

== Media coverage ==

Fursuiters are often included in [[Timeline of media coverage|media coverage]] of the fandom, such as the CSI epsiode ''[[Fur and Loathing]]''. They may also mentioned incidentally - for example, one of the [[female]] characters on the 2009 non-furry [[novel]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'', a 2009 novel by [[Wikipedia:Margaret Atwood|Margaret Atwood]], gets a job as a "Furzooter", being constantly [[W:Sexual harassment|sexually harassed]].<ref>''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'' by Atwood, Margaret. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. p. 31.</ref>

== References ==
<references/>
* ''Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits'' by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam Riggs]], [http://www.ibexa.com/ Ibexa Press], September 2004, 208 pages (spiral-bound), ISBN 0967817072, ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967817072/ Amazon link])

== See also ==

* [[W:Fursuit|Fursuit]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[W:Costume#Mascots|Costume]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[WikiFur:Project Fursuit Central/AvailableArtists|Available fursuit makers]]
* [[:Category:Fursuit photographs|Fursuit photographs]]
* [[Cosplay]]

== External links ==

* [http://fursuit.org/ The Furry Costume Information Exchange]
* [http://fursuit.timduru.org/ The Fursuit Archive]
* [http://www.fursuit.co.uk/ Fursuit.co.uk] The British fursuit site

=== Tutorials ===

*[http://www.matrices.net/fursuiting.asp Costuming and fursuiting] at [[Matrices]].net
*[http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=fursuit The Fursuit community] (on LiveJournal)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080214041853/http://www.nicodemus.org/fursuit/ Nicodemus' Fursuit Pages] (archived) — information by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam "Nicodemus" Riggs]]; consider his book, ''[[Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits]]''
*[http://www.fursuit.de/cms/index.php/En:Fursuit_building Fursuit building] by [[Tioh]]
*[http://cleanfursuits.weebly.com/ Clean Fursuits] website about washing, etc.

=== Databases ===

* [http://www.frappr.com/fursuiters A map dedicated to fursuiters around the world]
* [http://fur-suit.org The Fursuit Database] A comprehensive Fursuit database
* fursuiter.org - fursuit database - Defunct (see [http://web.archive.org/web/20070116205759/http://www.fursuiter.org/ archive])

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[[File:Fursuit Markus Hug.JPG|right|thumb|[[Markus]] offering a hug.]]
[[File:Autumn 012.jpg|thumb|right|[[Autumn Vixen]] poses in fursuit.]]
'''Fursuits''', originally known as '''zoots''',<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref><ref name="Zoot">[http://www.furrydolphin.net/2009_files/furry-history.html Lifestylers and costuming/"zooting"] on the ''[[An Informal History of Furry Fandom]]'' essay by [[Simo]]. Retrieved June 25, 2014.</ref> are [[animal]] based [[costume]]s associated with the [[furry fandom]]. The term, coined in 1993 by [[Robert King]],<ref>[[Critter Costuming]], p13 - Robert King mentions inventing the term ''fursuit'' back in 1993 for the title of an amateur costumers' mailing list about the then-unnamed hobby while on the way back from a conference, in part as a pun on the word ''pursuit''{{fact}}</ref> can also refer to animal [[mascot]] costumes in general,{{cn}} as opposed to [[human]] or [[anthropomorphic|anthropomorphized]] object mascots.{{clarify}}

Owners are known as '''[[:Category:Fursuiters|fursuiters]]''', '''furzooters''', or '''suiter'''/'''zooters''', while the act of wearing a fursuit is usually referred to as '''''fursuiting''''' (originally as '''''zooting''''', named after the [[W:Chicano|Chicano]] [[W:Zoot suit|zoot suiter]]s of the [[W:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] area of the [[W:1940|1940]]s).<ref name="Zoot" />

==History==

Fursuiting as a permanent feature and practice within the fandom likely dates to the pre-convention era (1984-1989),{{cn}} when the first furry parties were being organized at both [[sci-fi]] conventions and home parties. By [[Confurence 0]] in 1989 (the first hotel-based [[furry convention]]), a programming track called "Furry Costuming" was held at the hotel at which it took place.{{cn}}

Many have commented on the change which occurred in the growing fandom when graphic artists, many of whom were native to the [[funny animal]] fandom era,{{clarify}} shared more attention with costumers,{{clarify}} resulting in the artists' booths being overshadowed by the presence of costumers at conventions and furry parties<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/98297bd0b163b276/aa1b5bd5eb53f70c?lnk=gst ''When did Fursuiters take over furry fandom?''] post by [[Joe Strike]] to [[alt.fan.furry]], Nov 30 2008. Retrieved ?.</ref>

This trend continues today, with the number of fursuiters growing exponentially every year at several furry conventions, even breaking established [[Guinness]] World Records.<ref>[http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/mass/largest_parade_of_people_in_fur_suits_Pittsburgh_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213484.html ]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref></ref> Some conventions have included since the early 2000's the position of [[Guest of Honor|Fursuiter Guest of Honor]].<ref>[https://www.rainfurrest.org/2013/goh.php ''Rainfurrest Guest of Honor''] page on the [[Rainfurrest]] official site]]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

== Types ==
[[File:GR FC2007 furry cats costumers.jpg|right|thumb|Fursuits are not always furry]]
Fursuits range from simple [[tail]]s and [[ears]] to full costumes with mechanical/electronic components. Similar to mascot suits, they allow the wearer to adopt another animal look and/or personality while in costume. Owners can spend less than one-hundred to many thousands of dollars on one fursuit,{{cn}} depending on the complexity of the design and on the materials used. These items are frequently sold at conventions, or online by either commission or auction. Furries may make their own using online tutorials and/or advice, or have hobbyist or professional [[:category:Fursuit makers|fursuit makers or companies]] fabricate them.

The standard fursuit is a full body costume that consists of a head, [[paw|forepaws]] (hands), hind paws (feet) and a body with an attached tail; in some cases, the tail is connected via a belt to the wearer and hangs out through a hole in the back of the body. Many suits include special padding or under suits to give the character its desired shape.

A ''partial suit'' or ''half-suit'' contains the above, only without the body. This allows the wearer to don ordinary clothing (or a different costume) overtop of the paws, head and tail. In partial suits, the tail is usually attached to a belt, and the arms and legs have sleeves that can go up as far as the shoulders and pelvis, respectively.

A third type known as the ''three-quarter suit'' has been developed, which consists of a head, arms and pants made to look like the legs, tail and feet of the animal in question, which works well for characters who only wear shirts.

=== Styles ===

Just like artwork, fursuits can vary in style, from the [[Kodimade|ultra-cartoony]] look, to the hyper-realistic. Now that fursuiting is becoming popular in Japan, we are beginning to see some very anime-style fursuits in that country.

== Reasons for fursuiting ==
[[File:Wgg the Gnoll.jpg|thumb|right|Wgg the Gnoll, an example of a suit that uses a mask.]]
A person who wears a fursuit generally falls into one or more of six categories.

=== Job ===

Many people wear fursuits as a [[real life]] job. This can include mascots, though not all mascots are fursuits, nor are all mascot performers furries. Many fursuiters are hired through an agency to represent a character, while others bring their own constructions to an event instead. There are also several volunteer fursuiting groups across North America that either ask or are asked to entertain at various social functions. Some groups even set up their own charitable events or perform on the streets to passersby.

=== Charity ===

Some fursuiters don their suits for non-paid charity work, such as events for social causes (animal rights) or visits to children hospitals or wards for entertainment.<re>[http://faq.fursuit.org/performance/hospitals ''Hospital/medical sites''] page on the [[Fursuit.org]] website. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

=== Event entertainment ===
[[File:FursuitDancersAC2006.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fursuit dancers at [[Anthrocon 2006]] — video by [[BigBlueFox|BBF]]: <span class="plainlinks">[http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFKdUVsjUqY 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb82sUmiCq4&NR 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWQJwQmZ0 3]</span> ]]
Other furries enjoy wearing their suits for parades, exhibitions, or [[convention]]s for simple personal fun or crowd entertainment. These fursuiters may also wear their suits to small, informal meetings among furry fans in their area.

Some may get permission to perform in or outside of a shop or event, while others may simply wear a suit in a major area, such as a mall. However, some cities have [[no-mask laws]], so individuals seeking to wear their fursuit in large, public places should check first if it's allowed before performing at that location.

=== Role-playing ===

Some [[Role-player]]ers create highly elaborate costumes (including fursuits) for their characters. Half-suits are usually created for role-playing games, though some role-players use full-body suits. These suits wear elaborate clothes and costumes of their own, depending on the theme of the game.

=== Spirituality ===

Some people (usually [[Wikipedia:otherkin|otherkin]],[[Wikipedia:therianthropy|therianthropes]] or [[furry lifestyler]]s) also fursuit for reasons of expressing what they feel is their inner animal self.{{cn}} Most of them try to make their suits as realistic and lifelike as possible.

=== Sexuality ===

A small portion of the [[furry fandom]] considers a fursuit a [[sex]]ual item. Some suits may contain elaborately designed/recreated sexual features ([[genitalia|sexual organs]]), while some wearers have simple cut accesses on the suit. It is a common public [[stereotype]] that all fursuiters [[fursuit sex|use fursuiting for sex]].{{cn}}

== Construction and maintenance ==
{{main|Construction of fursuits}}

== Performance ==
[[File:Autumnfox.jpg|thumb|right|[[Summer Vixen]] and [[Autumnwah]] at [[Further Confusion 2006]].]]
A key part of playing a character in suit is an engaging performance. The most expensive fursuit in the world will not help someone who does not know how to use it. Looking good is important, but not as important as ''acting''.

How the performer acts in costume reflects on how others relate to them. If the desired character is bouncy and bubbly, then acting that way is required to communicate it to spectators.

The design of the suit plays a part in some of the moves that can be done. For example, some fursuiters with floppy muzzles nod their heads up and down rapidly to simulate laughter or enjoyment. This cannot be done with suits with a rigid muzzle, or no muzzle at all.

=== Body language ===

Fursuiters typically do not speak in costume. This may be for a variety of reasons:
* To preserve the anonymity or conceal the gender of the performer
* The design of most suits muffles the voice of the performer
* Most animals don't talk
Because of this, acting in suit is mostly about body language.

When a fursuiter ''does'' speak in costume, it is often just to their [[Fursuit handler|handler]] and/or close friends. Alternately, fursuiters may only speak in some limited fashion, either with a limited vocabulary, or simply using as few words as necessary.

Increasingly, more elaborate fursuits are being built with some form of "[[talkjaw]]". This typically involves the fursuit's lower jaw being attached to the fursuiter's chin (likely with an elastic strap around the fursuiter's head), or pressed against by the fursuiter's lower jaw in some other fashion. This enables the fursuiter to talk.

== Media coverage ==

Fursuiters are often included in [[Timeline of media coverage|media coverage]] of the fandom, such as the CSI epsiode ''[[Fur and Loathing]]''. They may also mentioned incidentally - for example, one of the [[female]] characters on the 2009 non-furry [[novel]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'', a 2009 novel by [[Wikipedia:Margaret Atwood|Margaret Atwood]], gets a job as a "Furzooter", being constantly [[W:Sexual harassment|sexually harassed]].<ref>''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'' by Atwood, Margaret. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. p. 31.</ref>

== References ==
<references/>
* ''Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits'' by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam Riggs]], [http://www.ibexa.com/ Ibexa Press], September 2004, 208 pages (spiral-bound), ISBN 0967817072, ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967817072/ Amazon link])

== See also ==

* [[W:Fursuit|Fursuit]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[W:Costume#Mascots|Costume]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[WikiFur:Project Fursuit Central/AvailableArtists|Available fursuit makers]]
* [[:Category:Fursuit photographs|Fursuit photographs]]
* [[Cosplay]]

== External links ==

* [http://fursuit.org/ The Furry Costume Information Exchange]
* [http://fursuit.timduru.org/ The Fursuit Archive]
* [http://www.fursuit.co.uk/ Fursuit.co.uk] The British fursuit site

=== Tutorials ===

*[http://www.matrices.net/fursuiting.asp Costuming and fursuiting] at [[Matrices]].net
*[http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=fursuit The Fursuit community] (on LiveJournal)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080214041853/http://www.nicodemus.org/fursuit/ Nicodemus' Fursuit Pages] (archived) — information by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam "Nicodemus" Riggs]]; consider his book, ''[[Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits]]''
*[http://www.fursuit.de/cms/index.php/En:Fursuit_building Fursuit building] by [[Tioh]]
*[http://cleanfursuits.weebly.com/ Clean Fursuits] website about washing, etc.

=== Databases ===

* [http://www.frappr.com/fursuiters A map dedicated to fursuiters around the world]
* [http://fur-suit.org The Fursuit Database] A comprehensive Fursuit database
* fursuiter.org - fursuit database - Defunct (see [http://web.archive.org/web/20070116205759/http://www.fursuiter.org/ archive])

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[[File:Fursuit Markus Hug.JPG|right|thumb|[[Markus]] offering a hug.]]
[[File:Autumn 012.jpg|thumb|right|[[Autumn Vixen]] poses in fursuit.]]
'''Fursuits''', originally known as '''zoots''',<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref><ref name="Zoot">[http://www.furrydolphin.net/2009_files/furry-history.html Lifestylers and costuming/"zooting"] on the ''[[An Informal History of Furry Fandom]]'' essay by [[Simo]]. Retrieved June 25, 2014.</ref> are [[animal]] based [[costume]]s associated with the [[furry fandom]]. The term, coined in 1993 by [[Robert King]],<ref>[[Critter Costuming]], p13 - Robert King mentions inventing the term ''fursuit'' back in 1993 for the title of an amateur costumers' mailing list about the then-unnamed hobby while on the way back from a conference, in part as a pun on the word ''pursuit''{{fact}}</ref> can also refer to animal [[mascot]] costumes in general,{{cn}} as opposed to [[human]] or [[anthropomorphic|anthropomorphized]] object mascots.{{clarify}}

Owners are known as '''[[:Category:Fursuiters|fursuiters]]''', '''furzooters''', or '''suiter'''/'''zooters''', while the act of wearing a fursuit is usually referred to as '''''fursuiting''''' (originally as '''''zooting''''', named after the [[W:Chicano|Chicano]] [[W:Zoot suit|zoot suiter]]s of the [[W:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] area of the [[W:1940|1940]]s).<ref name="Zoot" />

==History==

Fursuiting as a permanent feature and practice within the fandom likely dates to the pre-convention era (1984-1989),{{cn}} when the first furry parties were being organized at both [[sci-fi]] conventions and home parties. By [[Confurence 0]] in 1989 (the first hotel-based [[furry convention]]), a programming track called "Furry Costuming" was held at the hotel at which it took place.{{cn}}

Many have commented on the change which occurred in the growing fandom when graphic artists, many of whom were native to the [[funny animal]] fandom era,{{clarify}} shared more attention with costumers,{{clarify}} resulting in the artists' booths being overshadowed by the presence of costumers at conventions and furry parties<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/98297bd0b163b276/aa1b5bd5eb53f70c?lnk=gst ''When did Fursuiters take over furry fandom?''] post by [[Joe Strike]] to [[alt.fan.furry]], Nov 30 2008. Retrieved ?.</ref>

This trend continues today, with the number of fursuiters growing exponentially every year at several furry conventions, even breaking established [[Guinness]] World Records.<ref>[http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/mass/largest_parade_of_people_in_fur_suits_Pittsburgh_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213484.html ]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref></ref> Some conventions have included since the early 2000's the position of [[Guest of Honor|Fursuiter Guest of Honor]].<ref>[https://www.rainfurrest.org/2013/goh.php ''Rainfurrest Guest of Honor''] page on the [[Rainfurrest]] official site]]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

== Types ==
[[File:GR FC2007 furry cats costumers.jpg|right|thumb|Fursuits are not always furry]]
Fursuits range from simple [[tail]]s and [[ears]] to full costumes with mechanical/electronic components. Similar to mascot suits, they allow the wearer to adopt another animal look and/or personality while in costume. Owners can spend less than one-hundred to many thousands of dollars on one fursuit,{{cn}} depending on the complexity of the design and on the materials used. These items are frequently sold at conventions, or online by either commission or auction. Furries may make their own using online tutorials and/or advice, or have hobbyist or professional [[:category:Fursuit makers|fursuit makers or companies]] fabricate them.

The standard fursuit is a full body costume that consists of a head, [[paw|forepaws]] (hands), hind paws (feet) and a body with an attached tail; in some cases, the tail is connected via a belt to the wearer and hangs out through a hole in the back of the body. Many suits include special padding or under suits to give the character its desired shape.

A ''partial suit'' or ''half-suit'' contains the above, only without the body. This allows the wearer to don ordinary clothing (or a different costume) overtop of the paws, head and tail. In partial suits, the tail is usually attached to a belt, and the arms and legs have sleeves that can go up as far as the shoulders and pelvis, respectively.

A third type known as the ''three-quarter suit'' has been developed, which consists of a head, arms and pants made to look like the legs, tail and feet of the animal in question, which works well for characters who only wear shirts.

=== Styles ===

Just like artwork, fursuits can vary in style, from the [[Kodimade|ultra-cartoony]] look, to the hyper-realistic. Now that fursuiting is becoming popular in Japan, we are beginning to see some very anime-style fursuits in that country.

== Reasons for fursuiting ==
[[File:Wgg the Gnoll.jpg|thumb|right|Wgg the Gnoll, an example of a suit that uses a mask.]]
A person who wears a fursuit generally falls into one or more of six categories.

=== Job ===

Many people wear fursuits as a [[real life]] job. This can include mascots, though not all mascots are fursuits, nor are all mascot performers furries. Many fursuiters are hired through an agency to represent a character, while others bring their own constructions to an event instead. There are also several volunteer fursuiting groups across North America that either ask or are asked to entertain at various social functions. Some groups even set up their own charitable events or perform on the streets to passersby.

=== Charity ===

Some fursuiters don their suits for non-paid charity work, such as events for social causes (animal rights) or visits to children hospitals or wards for entertainment.<re>[http://faq.fursuit.org/performance/hospitals ''Hospital/medical sites''] page on the [[Fursuit.org]] website. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

=== Event entertainment ===
[[File:FursuitDancersAC2006.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fursuit dancers at [[Anthrocon 2006]] — video by [[BigBlueFox|BBF]]: <span class="plainlinks">[http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFKdUVsjUqY 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb82sUmiCq4&NR 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWQJwQmZ0 3]</span> ]]
Other furries enjoy wearing their suits for parades, exhibitions, or [[convention]]s for simple personal fun or crowd entertainment. These fursuiters may also wear their suits to small, informal meetings among furry fans in their area.

Some may get permission to perform in or outside of a shop or event, while others may simply wear a suit in a major area, such as a mall. However, some cities have [[no-mask laws]], so individuals seeking to wear their fursuit in large, public places should check first if it's allowed before performing at that location.

=== Role-playing ===

Some [[Role-player]]ers create highly elaborate costumes (including fursuits) for their characters. Half-suits are usually created for role-playing games, though some role-players use full-body suits. These suits wear elaborate clothes and costumes of their own, depending on the theme of the game.

=== Spirituality ===

Some people (usually [[Wikipedia:otherkin|otherkin]],[[Wikipedia:therianthropy|therianthropes]] or [[furry lifestyler]]s) also fursuit for reasons of expressing what they feel is their inner animal self.{{cn}} Most of them try to make their suits as realistic and lifelike as possible.

=== Sexuality ===
{{main|Fursuit sex}}
A small portion of the [[furry fandom]] considers a fursuit a [[yiff|sex]]ual item. Some suits may contain elaborately designed/recreated sexual features ([[genitalia|sexual organs]]), while some wearers have simple cut accesses on the suit. It is a common public [[stereotype]] that all fursuiters use fursuiting for sex.{{cn}}

== Construction and maintenance ==
{{main|Construction of fursuits}}

== Performance ==
[[File:Autumnfox.jpg|thumb|right|[[Summer Vixen]] and [[Autumnwah]] at [[Further Confusion 2006]].]]
A key part of playing a character in suit is an engaging performance. The most expensive fursuit in the world will not help someone who does not know how to use it. Looking good is important, but not as important as ''acting''.

How the performer acts in costume reflects on how others relate to them. If the desired character is bouncy and bubbly, then acting that way is required to communicate it to spectators.

The design of the suit plays a part in some of the moves that can be done. For example, some fursuiters with floppy muzzles nod their heads up and down rapidly to simulate laughter or enjoyment. This cannot be done with suits with a rigid muzzle, or no muzzle at all.

=== Body language ===

Fursuiters typically do not speak in costume. This may be for a variety of reasons:
* To preserve the anonymity or conceal the gender of the performer
* The design of most suits muffles the voice of the performer
* Most animals don't talk
Because of this, acting in suit is mostly about body language.

When a fursuiter ''does'' speak in costume, it is often just to their [[Fursuit handler|handler]] and/or close friends. Alternately, fursuiters may only speak in some limited fashion, either with a limited vocabulary, or simply using as few words as necessary.

Increasingly, more elaborate fursuits are being built with some form of "[[talkjaw]]". This typically involves the fursuit's lower jaw being attached to the fursuiter's chin (likely with an elastic strap around the fursuiter's head), or pressed against by the fursuiter's lower jaw in some other fashion. This enables the fursuiter to talk.

== Media coverage ==

Fursuiters are often included in [[Timeline of media coverage|media coverage]] of the fandom, such as the CSI epsiode ''[[Fur and Loathing]]''. They may also mentioned incidentally - for example, one of the [[female]] characters on the 2009 non-furry [[novel]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'', a 2009 novel by [[Wikipedia:Margaret Atwood|Margaret Atwood]], gets a job as a "Furzooter", being constantly [[W:Sexual harassment|sexually harassed]].<ref>''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'' by Atwood, Margaret. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. p. 31.</ref>

== References ==
<references/>
* ''Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits'' by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam Riggs]], [http://www.ibexa.com/ Ibexa Press], September 2004, 208 pages (spiral-bound), ISBN 0967817072, ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967817072/ Amazon link])

== See also ==

* [[W:Fursuit|Fursuit]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[W:Costume#Mascots|Costume]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[WikiFur:Project Fursuit Central/AvailableArtists|Available fursuit makers]]
* [[:Category:Fursuit photographs|Fursuit photographs]]
* [[Cosplay]]

== External links ==

* [http://fursuit.org/ The Furry Costume Information Exchange]
* [http://fursuit.timduru.org/ The Fursuit Archive]
* [http://www.fursuit.co.uk/ Fursuit.co.uk] The British fursuit site

=== Tutorials ===

*[http://www.matrices.net/fursuiting.asp Costuming and fursuiting] at [[Matrices]].net
*[http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=fursuit The Fursuit community] (on LiveJournal)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080214041853/http://www.nicodemus.org/fursuit/ Nicodemus' Fursuit Pages] (archived) — information by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam "Nicodemus" Riggs]]; consider his book, ''[[Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits]]''
*[http://www.fursuit.de/cms/index.php/En:Fursuit_building Fursuit building] by [[Tioh]]
*[http://cleanfursuits.weebly.com/ Clean Fursuits] website about washing, etc.

=== Databases ===

* [http://www.frappr.com/fursuiters A map dedicated to fursuiters around the world]
* [http://fur-suit.org The Fursuit Database] A comprehensive Fursuit database
* fursuiter.org - fursuit database - Defunct (see [http://web.archive.org/web/20070116205759/http://www.fursuiter.org/ archive])

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[[File:Fursuit Markus Hug.JPG|right|thumb|[[Markus]] offering a hug.]]
[[File:Autumn 012.jpg|thumb|right|[[Autumn Vixen]] poses in fursuit.]]
'''Fursuits''', originally known as '''zoots''',<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref><ref name="Zoot">[http://www.furrydolphin.net/2009_files/furry-history.html Lifestylers and costuming/"zooting"] on the ''[[An Informal History of Furry Fandom]]'' essay by [[Simo]]. Retrieved June 25, 2014.</ref> are [[animal]] based [[costume]]s associated with the [[furry fandom]]. The term, coined in 1993 by [[Robert King]],<ref>[[Critter Costuming]], p13 - Robert King mentions inventing the term ''fursuit'' back in 1993 for the title of an amateur costumers' mailing list about the then-unnamed hobby while on the way back from a conference, in part as a pun on the word ''pursuit''{{fact}}</ref> can also refer to animal [[mascot]] costumes in general,{{cn}} as opposed to [[human]] or [[anthropomorphic|anthropomorphized]] object mascots.{{clarify}}

Owners are known as '''[[:Category:Fursuiters|fursuiters]]''', '''furzooters''', or '''suiter'''/'''zooters''', while the act of wearing a fursuit is usually referred to as '''''fursuiting''''' (originally as '''''zooting''''', named after the [[W:Chicano|Chicano]] [[W:Zoot suit|zoot suiter]]s of the [[W:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] area of the [[W:1940|1940]]s).<ref name="Zoot" />

==History==

Fursuiting as a permanent feature and practice within the fandom likely dates to the pre-convention era (1984-1989),{{cn}} when the first furry parties were being organized at both [[sci-fi]] conventions and home parties. By [[Confurence 0]] in 1989 (the first hotel-based [[furry convention]]), a programming track called "Furry Costuming" was held at the hotel at which it took place.{{cn}}

Many have commented on the change which occurred in the growing fandom when graphic artists, many of whom were native to the [[funny animal]] fandom era,{{clarify}} shared more attention with costumers,{{clarify}} resulting in the artists' booths being overshadowed by the presence of costumers at conventions and furry parties<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/98297bd0b163b276/aa1b5bd5eb53f70c?lnk=gst ''When did Fursuiters take over furry fandom?''] post by [[Joe Strike]] to [[alt.fan.furry]], Nov 30 2008. Retrieved ?.</ref>

This trend continues today, with the number of fursuiters growing exponentially every year at several furry conventions, even breaking established [[Guinness]] World Records.<ref>[http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/mass/largest_parade_of_people_in_fur_suits_Pittsburgh_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213484.html ]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref></ref> Some conventions have included since the early 2000's the position of [[Guest of Honor|Fursuiter Guest of Honor]].<ref>[https://www.rainfurrest.org/2013/goh.php ''Rainfurrest Guest of Honor''] page on the [[Rainfurrest]] official site]]. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

== Types ==
[[File:GR FC2007 furry cats costumers.jpg|right|thumb|Fursuits are not always furry]]
Fursuits range from simple [[tail]]s and [[ears]] to full costumes with mechanical/electronic components. Similar to mascot suits, they allow the wearer to adopt another animal look and/or personality while in costume. Owners can spend less than one-hundred to many thousands of dollars on one fursuit,{{cn}} depending on the complexity of the design and on the materials used. These items are frequently sold at conventions, or online by either commission or auction. Furries may make their own using online tutorials and/or advice, or have hobbyist or professional [[:category:Fursuit makers|fursuit makers or companies]] fabricate them.

The standard fursuit is a full body costume that consists of a head, [[paw|forepaws]] (hands), hind paws (feet) and a body with an attached tail; in some cases, the tail is connected via a belt to the wearer and hangs out through a hole in the back of the body. Many suits include special padding or under suits to give the character its desired shape.

A ''partial suit'' or ''half-suit'' contains the above, only without the body. This allows the wearer to don ordinary clothing (or a different costume) overtop of the paws, head and tail. In partial suits, the tail is usually attached to a belt, and the arms and legs have sleeves that can go up as far as the shoulders and pelvis, respectively.

A third type known as the ''three-quarter suit'' has been developed, which consists of a head, arms and pants made to look like the legs, tail and feet of the animal in question, which works well for characters who only wear shirts.

=== Styles ===

Just like artwork, fursuits can vary in style, from the [[Kodimade|ultra-cartoony]] look, to the hyper-realistic. Now that fursuiting is becoming popular in Japan, we are beginning to see some very anime-style fursuits in that country.

== Reasons for fursuiting ==
[[File:Wgg the Gnoll.jpg|thumb|right|Wgg the Gnoll, an example of a suit that uses a mask.]]
A person who wears a fursuit generally falls into one or more of six categories.

=== Job ===

Many people wear fursuits as a [[real life]] job. This can include mascots, though not all mascots are fursuits, nor are all mascot performers furries. Many fursuiters are hired through an agency to represent a character, while others bring their own constructions to an event instead. There are also several volunteer fursuiting groups across North America that either ask or are asked to entertain at various social functions. Some groups even set up their own charitable events or perform on the streets to passersby.

=== Charity ===

Some fursuiters don their suits for non-paid charity work, such as events for social causes (animal rights) or visits to children hospitals or wards for entertainment.<re>[http://faq.fursuit.org/performance/hospitals ''Hospital/medical sites''] page on the [[Fursuit.org]] website. Retrieved June 17, 2014.</ref>

=== Event entertainment ===
[[File:FursuitDancersAC2006.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fursuit dancers at [[Anthrocon 2006]] — video by [[BigBlueFox|BBF]]: <span class="plainlinks">[http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFKdUVsjUqY 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb82sUmiCq4&NR 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWQJwQmZ0 3]</span> ]]
Other furries enjoy wearing their suits for parades, exhibitions, or [[convention]]s for simple personal fun or crowd entertainment. These fursuiters may also wear their suits to small, informal meetings among furry fans in their area.

Some may get permission to perform in or outside of a shop or event, while others may simply wear a suit in a major area, such as a mall. However, some cities have [[no-mask laws]], so individuals seeking to wear their fursuit in large, public places should check first if it's allowed before performing at that location.

=== Role-playing ===

Some [[Role-player]]ers create highly elaborate costumes (including fursuits) for their characters. Half-suits are usually created for role-playing games, though some role-players use full-body suits. These suits wear elaborate clothes and costumes of their own, depending on the theme of the game.

=== Spirituality ===

Some people (usually [[Wikipedia:otherkin|otherkin]],[[Wikipedia:therianthropy|therianthropes]] or [[furry lifestyler]]s) also fursuit for reasons of expressing what they feel is their inner animal self.{{cn}} Most of them try to make their suits as realistic and lifelike as possible.

=== Sexuality ===
{{main|Fursuit sex}}
A small portion of the [[furry fandom]] considers a fursuit a [[sex]]ual item. Some suits may contain elaborately designed/recreated sexual features ([[genitalia|sexual organs]]), while some wearers have simple cut accesses on the suit. It is a common public [[stereotype]] that all fursuiters use fursuiting for sex.{{cn}}

== Construction and maintenance ==
{{main|Construction of fursuits}}

== Performance ==
[[File:Autumnfox.jpg|thumb|right|[[Summer Vixen]] and [[Autumnwah]] at [[Further Confusion 2006]].]]
A key part of playing a character in suit is an engaging performance. The most expensive fursuit in the world will not help someone who does not know how to use it. Looking good is important, but not as important as ''acting''.

How the performer acts in costume reflects on how others relate to them. If the desired character is bouncy and bubbly, then acting that way is required to communicate it to spectators.

The design of the suit plays a part in some of the moves that can be done. For example, some fursuiters with floppy muzzles nod their heads up and down rapidly to simulate laughter or enjoyment. This cannot be done with suits with a rigid muzzle, or no muzzle at all.

=== Body language ===

Fursuiters typically do not speak in costume. This may be for a variety of reasons:
* To preserve the anonymity or conceal the gender of the performer
* The design of most suits muffles the voice of the performer
* Most animals don't talk
Because of this, acting in suit is mostly about body language.

When a fursuiter ''does'' speak in costume, it is often just to their [[Fursuit handler|handler]] and/or close friends. Alternately, fursuiters may only speak in some limited fashion, either with a limited vocabulary, or simply using as few words as necessary.

Increasingly, more elaborate fursuits are being built with some form of "[[talkjaw]]". This typically involves the fursuit's lower jaw being attached to the fursuiter's chin (likely with an elastic strap around the fursuiter's head), or pressed against by the fursuiter's lower jaw in some other fashion. This enables the fursuiter to talk.

== Media coverage ==

Fursuiters are often included in [[Timeline of media coverage|media coverage]] of the fandom, such as the CSI epsiode ''[[Fur and Loathing]]''. They may also mentioned incidentally - for example, one of the [[female]] characters on the 2009 non-furry [[novel]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'', a 2009 novel by [[Wikipedia:Margaret Atwood|Margaret Atwood]], gets a job as a "Furzooter", being constantly [[W:Sexual harassment|sexually harassed]].<ref>''[[Wikipedia:The Year of the Flood|The Year of the Flood]]'' by Atwood, Margaret. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. p. 31.</ref>

== References ==
<references/>
* ''Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits'' by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam Riggs]], [http://www.ibexa.com/ Ibexa Press], September 2004, 208 pages (spiral-bound), ISBN 0967817072, ([http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967817072/ Amazon link])

== See also ==

* [[W:Fursuit|Fursuit]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[W:Costume#Mascots|Costume]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[WikiFur:Project Fursuit Central/AvailableArtists|Available fursuit makers]]
* [[:Category:Fursuit photographs|Fursuit photographs]]
* [[Cosplay]]

== External links ==

* [http://fursuit.org/ The Furry Costume Information Exchange]
* [http://fursuit.timduru.org/ The Fursuit Archive]
* [http://www.fursuit.co.uk/ Fursuit.co.uk] The British fursuit site

=== Tutorials ===

*[http://www.matrices.net/fursuiting.asp Costuming and fursuiting] at [[Matrices]].net
*[http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=fursuit The Fursuit community] (on LiveJournal)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080214041853/http://www.nicodemus.org/fursuit/ Nicodemus' Fursuit Pages] (archived) — information by [[Nicodemus (person)|Adam "Nicodemus" Riggs]]; consider his book, ''[[Critter Costuming: Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits]]''
*[http://www.fursuit.de/cms/index.php/En:Fursuit_building Fursuit building] by [[Tioh]]
*[http://cleanfursuits.weebly.com/ Clean Fursuits] website about washing, etc.

=== Databases ===

* [http://www.frappr.com/fursuiters A map dedicated to fursuiters around the world]
* [http://fur-suit.org The Fursuit Database] A comprehensive Fursuit database
* fursuiter.org - fursuit database - Defunct (see [http://web.archive.org/web/20070116205759/http://www.fursuiter.org/ archive])

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Akume

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'''Akume''' is an [[artist]] and [[fanfiction]] [[writer]] from South Orange County, [[:Category:California|California]] commonly known for his black [[cat]] [[fursona]]. His [[mate]] is [[Roccie]]. His name is Japanese for "orgasm". He is also known as "Akume the Kitty".

Along with his black [[cat]] fursona, he has many others including a fox and a dragon, and he enjoys the game [[World Of Warcraft]].

Sometime over the past year, he had been banned from [[FurAffinity]], due to someone hacking his account and using it for trolling. After his mate Roccie tried to explain this to admins, Pinkuh closed his account. Roccie is still actively trying to get his name cleared, but they are promptly ignoring her.

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Yiff

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[[File:Yiff (word).png|right|235px]]
'''Yiff''' is an [[Wikipedia:onomatopoetic|onomatopoetic]] word and/or sound, coined in 1990 by [[Foxen (Furrymuck)|Foxen]]<ref>[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=yiff Description of ''Yiff''] on Everything2.com (Retrieved ?)</ref> while [[roleplaying]] his [[fursona]], '''littlefox''', originally to meaning a cheerful greeting or an energetic "''yes''", but changing over time to be used more commonly as an expression of [[sexual]] interest or activity.

A very common word in [[Culture|furry lore]], it can be used as an [[W:interjection|interjection]], an [[W:adjective|adjective]], a [[W:verb|verb]], or a [[W:noun|noun]].

== History ==

In [[Foxish|Foxish language]], yiff initially meant "yes!" or an enthused "hello!". Later, "yiff" was assigned a more sexual connotation, a meaning that had previously been assigned to '''yipp''' (a coarse form of '''yip''').{{fact}} This was compounded by several fox characters{{who}} on [[Furry MUCK]] who were spreading a very sexual reputation for the species at about the same time as this came into common usage.

== Alternative term use ==

* As a [[furspeak]] or furry version for the English profanity word, [[W:Fuck You|Fuck]] ("Ah, yiff that!" or "Yiff You!").
* To express happiness, success, or feeling ("Yiffy").
* To describe [[erotic]], sexual, or [[pornographic]] anthropomorphic media (noun).
* As a descriptive [[W:acronym|acronym]] ('''YIFF''' or '''Y. I. F. F.''' - "Young Incredibly Fuckable Furry").{{fact}}

=== Yiffing ===

'''Yiffing''' is a term for [[wikipedia:sexual intercourse|sexual intercourse]] between furs, which is sometimes done [[fursuit sex|while wearing a fursuit]].

==== Origin ====

The exact time the term "yiffing" was coined is disputed.{{who}} The most popular etymology stems from the 1980s,{{fact}} citing that "yiff" was the sound [[foxes]] make while mating.{{fact}}

==== Euphemisms ====

Yiffing comes with its own set of sexual euphemisms, in addition to many of the same slang terms used in human sex. For example, a popular term for male [[masturbation]] is "'''pawing off'''" ("'''clopping'''" within the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' fandom, specially by [[brony|bronies]]).<ref>[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wingboner-clopping Description of ''Clopping''] on Knowyourmeme.com (Retrieved ?)</ref>.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Yiff|Yiff]] on Wikipedia
* [[Wiktionary:yiff|yiff]], [[Wiktionary:yiffy|yiffy]], [[Wiktionary:yiffs|yiffs]], and [[Wiktionary:yiffing|yiffing]] on the [[W:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]
* [[The Yiffy Guide to Safer Sex]]
* [[Yiff in Hell, furfags]]

==References==
<references />

'''[[WikiFur:Did you know?#01 Septembert|Did you know?]]''' The earliest known recorded use of the word "Yiff" is in [[Wikipedia:Thomas Malory|Sir Thomas Malory]]'s 1485 epic, [http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/Morte.txt ''Le Morte d'Arthur''], which was the [[Wikipedia:Middle_English_language|Middle English]] equivalent to the modern day conjunction, "'''[[Wiktionary:if|If]]'''."

== External links ==

* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiff ''Yiff''] on the [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yiff ''Yiff''] on [http://knowyourmeme.com/ Knowyourmeme.com]
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiffing ''Yiffing''] on the Urban Dictionary
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yiffing ''Yiffing''] on Knowyourmeme.com

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CaptainGerBear

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'''CaptainGerBear''' is a [[furry artist]], [[author]], and programmer who lives in [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]].<ref>[http://captaingerbear.deviantart.com/ CaptainGerBear's profile] on [[deviantART]]. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref>

==Projects==
CaptainGerBear's projects frequently contain [[mature work|mature themes]] and [[homosexuality]]. They include:

====''Grant''====
{{main|Grant}}
''Grant'' is a [[webcomic]] which is posted on Ger's [[Fur Affinity]] and [[deviantART]] galleries. The titular Grant is a [[gay]] [[werewolf]], and the comic tells his story, starting from his childhood as an orphan, when he first discovers his ability to change.

====(Monster in the Closet) Bump In The Night====
Bump in the Night is an adult [[Wikipedia:Adobe Flash|Flash]] game<ref>[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/499884 Bump In The Night] on newgrounds.com. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> in which Muggins (a red-purple demonic [[monster]]) performs [[Wikipedia:Oral sex|oral sex]] on Heavy J (a lavender-coloured [[cat]]-like creature). The player must control the action so that Heavy J is stimulated enough to maintain his erection, but not so much that he ejaculates prematurely.

====ChubPan====
[[File:ChubPanDemoOpening.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Opening screen of the ChubPan demo]]
[[File:ChubPanSpankingThePandaGame.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Spanking the Panda" minigame in ChubPan]]
ChubPan is a work-in-progress "homoerotic dating sim".<ref>[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChubPan ChubPan] on tvtropes.org. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> A Flash game, subtitled "A Point & Prick Adventure", ChubPan is incomplete as of August, 2011, although a playable demo has been released. In the demo, the player controls the actions of a [[fat fur|chubby]] [[panda]] who has survived an aeroplane crash with [[Wikipedia:retrograde amnesia|retrograde amnesia]]. Unable to remember his own name, he has been christened "Pan" by the residents of Bumpton, a remote logging village where he is being nursed back to health.

Pan can explore the town, meeting and talking with its inhabitants. The local physician, Dr Tate (a [[deer|stag]]), arranges Pan work as a [[Wikipedia:lumberjack|lumberjack]], which forms a minigame in the simulation. Pan's tree-felling becomes more difficult as he begins to hallucinate flying angelic and demonic forms of himself. A symptom of Pan's sexual cravings (he is initially forbidden from sexual release on medical grounds), the hallucinations grow over time and begin to copulate on screen, distracting the player and getting in the way of the game controls.

Eventually Pan is allowed to relieve his pent-up cravings. Although a "list of Fuckables" has been released by CaptainGerBear,<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6325433/ Pan Levels Up, extra details, and the Fuckables.] - posting by CaptainGerBear, on his Fur Affinity journal. Dated August 16, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> the demo release does not include any interaction with them. The demo does, however, give Pan the option of relieving himself by [[Wikipedia:masturbation|masturbating]]. This takes the form of a "Spanking the Panda" minigame in which the player must move their mouse rhythmically up and down to make Pan stimulate himself.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://bigfingers.ca/ Bigfingers.ca] (CaptainGerBear's personal website)
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/captaingerbear/ CaptainGerBear] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://captaingerbear.deviantart.com/ CaptainGerBear] on [[deviantART]]
* [http://captaingerbear.newgrounds.com/ CaptainGerBear] on newgrounds.com
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainGerBear CaptainGerBear] on [[YouTube]]

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CaptainGerBear

2014-07-07T17:07:53Z

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'''CaptainGerBear''' is a [[furry artist]], [[author]], and programmer who lives in [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]].<ref>[http://captaingerbear.deviantart.com/ CaptainGerBear's profile] on [[deviantART]]. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref>

==Projects==
CaptainGerBear's projects frequently contain [[mature work|mature themes]] and [[homosexuality]]. They include:

====''Grant''====
{{main|Grant}}
''Grant'' is a [[webcomic]] which is posted on Ger's [[Fur Affinity]] and [[deviantART]] galleries. The titular Grant is a [[gay]] [[werewolf]], and the comic tells his story, starting from his childhood as an orphan, when he first discovers his ability to change.

====(Monster in the Closet) Bump In The Night====
Bump in the Night is an adult [[Wikipedia:Adobe Flash|Flash]] game<ref>[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/499884 Bump In The Night] on newgrounds.com. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> in which Muggins (a red-purple demonic [[monster]]) performs [[Wikipedia:Oral sex|oral sex]] on Heavy J (a lavender-coloured [[cat]]-like creature). The player must control the action so that Heavy J is stimulated enough to maintain his erection, but not so much that he ejaculates prematurely.

====ChubPan====
[[File:ChubPanDemoOpening.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Opening screen of the ChubPan demo]]
[[File:ChubPanSpankingThePandaGame.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Spanking the Panda" minigame in ChubPan]]
ChubPan is a work-in-progress "[[homosexual|homoerotic]] dating sim".<ref>[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChubPan ChubPan] on tvtropes.org. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> A Flash game, subtitled "A Point & Prick Adventure", ChubPan is incomplete as of August, 2011, although a playable demo has been released. In the demo, the player controls the actions of a [[fat fur|chubby]] [[panda]] who has survived an aeroplane crash with [[Wikipedia:retrograde amnesia|retrograde amnesia]]. Unable to remember his own name, he has been christened "Pan" by the residents of Bumpton, a remote logging village where he is being nursed back to health.

Pan can explore the town, meeting and talking with its inhabitants. The local physician, Dr Tate (a [[deer|stag]]), arranges Pan work as a [[Wikipedia:lumberjack|lumberjack]], which forms a minigame in the simulation. Pan's tree-felling becomes more difficult as he begins to hallucinate flying angelic and demonic forms of himself. A symptom of Pan's sexual cravings (he is initially forbidden from sexual release on medical grounds), the hallucinations grow over time and begin to copulate on screen, distracting the player and getting in the way of the game controls.

Eventually Pan is allowed to relieve his pent-up cravings. Although a "list of Fuckables" has been released by CaptainGerBear,<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6325433/ Pan Levels Up, extra details, and the Fuckables.] - posting by CaptainGerBear, on his Fur Affinity journal. Dated August 16, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011</ref> the demo release does not include any interaction with them. The demo does, however, give Pan the option of relieving himself by [[masturbation|masturbating]]. This takes the form of a "Spanking the Panda" minigame in which the player must move their mouse rhythmically up and down to make Pan stimulate himself.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://bigfingers.ca/ Bigfingers.ca] (CaptainGerBear's personal website)
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/captaingerbear/ CaptainGerBear] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://captaingerbear.deviantart.com/ CaptainGerBear] on [[deviantART]]
* [http://captaingerbear.newgrounds.com/ CaptainGerBear] on newgrounds.com
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainGerBear CaptainGerBear] on [[YouTube]]

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Genitalia

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Yiff

2014-07-07T16:58:15Z

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{{unref}}
[[File:Yiff (word).png|right|235px]]
'''Yiff''' is an [[Wikipedia:onomatopoetic|onomatopoetic]] word and/or sound, coined in 1990 by [[Foxen (Furrymuck)|Foxen]]<ref>[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=yiff Description of ''Yiff''] on Everything2.com (Retrieved ?)</ref> while [[roleplaying]] his [[fursona]], '''littlefox''', originally to meaning a cheerful greeting or an energetic "''yes''", but changing over time to be used more commonly as an expression of [[sexual]] interest or activity.

A very common word in [[Culture|furry lore]], it can be used as an [[W:interjection|interjection]], an [[W:adjective|adjective]], a [[W:verb|verb]], or a [[W:noun|noun]].

== History ==

In [[Foxish|Foxish language]], yiff initially meant "yes!" or an enthused "hello!". Later, "yiff" was assigned a more sexual connotation, a meaning that had previously been assigned to '''yipp''' (a coarse form of '''yip''').{{fact}} This was compounded by several fox characters{{who}} on [[Furry MUCK]] who were spreading a very sexual reputation for the species at about the same time as this came into common usage.

== Alternative term use ==

* As a [[furspeak]] or furry version for the English profanity word, [[W:Fuck You|Fuck]] ("Ah, yiff that!" or "Yiff You!").
* To express happiness, success, or feeling ("Yiffy").
* To describe [[erotic]], sexual, or [[pornographic]] anthropomorphic media (noun).
* As a descriptive [[W:acronym|acronym]] ('''YIFF''' or '''Y. I. F. F.''' - "Young Incredibly Fuckable Furry").{{fact}}

=== Yiffing ===

'''Yiffing''' is a term for [[wikipedia:sexual intercourse|sexual intercourse]] between furs.

==== Origin ====

The exact time the term "yiffing" was coined is disputed.{{who}} The most popular etymology stems from the 1980s,{{fact}} citing that "yiff" was the sound [[foxes]] make while mating.{{fact}}

==== Euphemisms ====

Yiffing comes with its own set of sexual euphemisms, in addition to many of the same slang terms used in human sex. For example, a popular term for male [[masturbation]] is "'''pawing off'''" ("'''clopping'''" within the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' fandom, specially by [[brony|bronies]]).<ref>[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wingboner-clopping Description of ''Clopping''] on Knowyourmeme.com (Retrieved ?)</ref>.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Yiff|Yiff]] on Wikipedia
* [[Wiktionary:yiff|yiff]], [[Wiktionary:yiffy|yiffy]], [[Wiktionary:yiffs|yiffs]], and [[Wiktionary:yiffing|yiffing]] on the [[W:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]
* [[The Yiffy Guide to Safer Sex]]
* [[Yiff in Hell, furfags]]

==References==
<references />

'''[[WikiFur:Did you know?#01 Septembert|Did you know?]]''' The earliest known recorded use of the word "Yiff" is in [[Wikipedia:Thomas Malory|Sir Thomas Malory]]'s 1485 epic, [http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/Morte.txt ''Le Morte d'Arthur''], which was the [[Wikipedia:Middle_English_language|Middle English]] equivalent to the modern day conjunction, "'''[[Wiktionary:if|If]]'''."

== External links ==

* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiff ''Yiff''] on the [http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary]
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yiff ''Yiff''] on [http://knowyourmeme.com/ Knowyourmeme.com]
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiffing ''Yiffing''] on the Urban Dictionary
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yiffing ''Yiffing''] on Knowyourmeme.com

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Fursuit sex

2014-07-07T16:54:20Z

Jarble: Fixing an ambiguous link

'''Fursuit sex''' or '''fursuited sex''', originally known as '''zoot-sex''', '''zoot sex''', '''zootsex''', and '''zootaphilia''',<ref name="Zoot">[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref> is a [[Furspeech|furryspeak]] term to describe the performance (simulated or not) of [[yiff|sexual interaction]] while one or all parties involved are wearing a [[fursuit]]. Practitioners were originally known as '''Zootphiles''' or '''Zooters''', terms derived from '''zoot''', a colloquial term for "fursuit".<ref name="Zoot" />

Fursuit sex is a [[W:Paraphilias|paraphilia]] practiced by a small subset of the [[furry]] community.

== Act ==

This sexual activity can consist of clothed [[genital]] to [[genital]] stimulation ([[W:Non-penetrative sex|Non-penetrative sex/"dry humping"]]), or actual sexual intercourse via [[plushophile]]-like [[SPH]] (Strategically Placed Holes) openings in the suits.

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==

* [[Furpile]]
* [[Yiff]]

== External links ==

* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.fan.furry/WOdTJ6AMbmw%5B1-25-false%5D "Fursuit sex"] - First recorded net use on [[alt.fan.furry]]
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fursuitsex "Fursuit sex"] on the [[W:Urban Dictionary|Urban Dictionary]]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zoot-sex%7Csort:date/alt.lifestyle.furry/uKY_aZBPPEg/3Si5R0J03VwJ "Zoot sex"] - First recorded net use on [[alt.lifestyle.furry]]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootphile%7Csort:date/alt.lifestyle.furry/uKY_aZBPPEg/v6A-xlWLVuMJ "Zootphile"] - First recorded net use on alt.lifestyle.furry
* [http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/furries Fursuit Sex] on [[W:Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] magazine's ''[[Furries (article)|Furries]]''
* [http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/12013?e=tye_1.0-ch09_s01#tye_1.0-ch00about Zoot-sex] on ''Sexuality and Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial, v. 1.0''
* [http://www.psicologoinrete.com/sesso-psicologo-enciclopedia-063.html Zoot-sex] on the ''Nuova Enciclopedia Sessuale'' (Italian)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=8UtCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA544&lpg=PA544&dq=%22zoot-sex%22+furry&source=bl&ots=MEmyBvdFO4&sig=-6_94pvPn4lnRSsc-pw2uGJLLI8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XASqU_yFCJfeoAS46YDADA&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBTgK Zootsex] on Alessandro Pedrazzi's ''XXI Sex''

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Furpile

2014-07-07T16:53:33Z

Jarble: distinguish

[[image:MFF2008 Furpile.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Furpile at [[Midwest FurFest 2008]]]]
:''For the online dating service, see [[Furpile.net]]. For the WikiFur improvement drive, see [[WikiFur:Furpile]].''

A '''furpile''' is a group of [[furries]] who are at least partially one on top of the other, possibly in [[fursuit]]s. It's usually more of the result of "everyone trying to get comfortable" rather than a deliberately planned thing. Unlike [[fursuit sex]], a furpile is usually not sexual, although the director of ''[[CSI]]'' decided it would be more fun to depict one that was. Another example where furpile was represented sexually in the media was the movie ''Crazy/Beautiful'' when the heroine's best friend said "...the term 'furpile' came up a few times" in reference to a past conversation she had, planning a party. If one watches the movie, one is led to believe that all parties went to by the twosome involve sexual activity.

It's a good idea not to pile up on others if one's weight is over a certain limit. When those on the bottom show signs of discomfort, it is best to let them out.

[[Category:Furspeech terms]]

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Fursuit sex

2014-07-07T16:52:02Z

Jarble: /* See also */ Linking to a related article

'''Fursuit sex''' or '''fursuited sex''', originally known as '''zoot-sex''', '''zoot sex''', '''zootsex''', and '''zootaphilia''',<ref name="Zoot">[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootsex%7Csort:date/fur.artwork.erotica/IRbJYVnIBLM/-dFS2-ckdT4J ''<nowiki>[FUR]</nowiki>A survey about "ZOOs"''] post on [[fur.artwork.erotica]]. Dated July 13, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.</ref> is a [[Furspeech|furryspeak]] term to describe the performance (simulated or not) of [[sex|sexual interaction]] while one or all parties involved are wearing a [[fursuit]]. Practitioners were originally known as '''Zootphiles''' or '''Zooters''', terms derived from '''zoot''', a colloquial term for "fursuit".<ref name="Zoot" />

Fursuit sex is a [[W:Paraphilias|paraphilia]] practiced by a small subset of the [[furry]] community.

== Act ==

This sexual activity can consist of clothed [[genital]] to [[genital]] stimulation ([[W:Non-penetrative sex|Non-penetrative sex/"dry humping"]]), or actual sexual intercourse via [[plushophile]]-like [[SPH]] (Strategically Placed Holes) openings in the suits.

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==

* [[Furpile]]
* [[Yiff]]

== External links ==

* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.fan.furry/WOdTJ6AMbmw%5B1-25-false%5D "Fursuit sex"] - First recorded net use on [[alt.fan.furry]]
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fursuitsex "Fursuit sex"] on the [[W:Urban Dictionary|Urban Dictionary]]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zoot-sex%7Csort:date/alt.lifestyle.furry/uKY_aZBPPEg/3Si5R0J03VwJ "Zoot sex"] - First recorded net use on [[alt.lifestyle.furry]]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/zootphile%7Csort:date/alt.lifestyle.furry/uKY_aZBPPEg/v6A-xlWLVuMJ "Zootphile"] - First recorded net use on alt.lifestyle.furry
* [http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/furries Fursuit Sex] on [[W:Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] magazine's ''[[Furries (article)|Furries]]''
* [http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/12013?e=tye_1.0-ch09_s01#tye_1.0-ch00about Zoot-sex] on ''Sexuality and Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial, v. 1.0''
* [http://www.psicologoinrete.com/sesso-psicologo-enciclopedia-063.html Zoot-sex] on the ''Nuova Enciclopedia Sessuale'' (Italian)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=8UtCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA544&lpg=PA544&dq=%22zoot-sex%22+furry&source=bl&ots=MEmyBvdFO4&sig=-6_94pvPn4lnRSsc-pw2uGJLLI8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XASqU_yFCJfeoAS46YDADA&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBTgK Zootsex] on Alessandro Pedrazzi's ''XXI Sex''

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Genitalia

2014-07-07T16:47:55Z

Jarble: /* Dolphin genitalia */ removing unnecessary link

{{unreferenced}}
{{context}}
[[File:001 Sexual Organs Comparison.png|right|thumb|Human (primate) genitalia comparison chart]]
[[File:Pup Doug Winger.jpg|right|thumb|Pup, a shemale canine with humanoid male genitalia. Art © [[Doug Winger]].]]
'''Genitalia''' is defined as the [[Sex|sex organs]], or any [[Anatomy|anatomical parts]], which are involved in [[W:sexual reproduction|sexual reproduction]], and constitute the [[W:Reproductive system|reproductive system]] in a complex organism.

== Genitalia and furry ==

Many [[furries]] that design their [[character]]'s form to include anatomical parts use genitalia that's either [[human]]-like, [[animal]], or mix of both. This is most commonly an issue between [[male]] and [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic]] characters, since the [[penis]] varies much more widely between species than the [[vagina]].{{clarify}}

In [[furry art]], the depiction of the genitalia in it is what generally determines its [[W:Content rating|content ratings]].{{fact}} To some,{{who}} the existence of genitals is the defining line between [[Furry art|furry]] and [[funny animal]] art.{{fact}}

== Animalia anatomy and media ==
=== Penises ===

There are many{{who}} artists that design their characters with [[humanoid]] penis, many of which have it tucked inside a [[W:Penile sheath|penile sheath]] (the equivalent of a human [[W:Foreskin|foreskin]]), with the inclusion of animalistic features.

For example, [[canine]] characters may have a [[W:Canine penis|canine penis]] with a chisel tip and the process of [[W:Bulbus glandis|a knot at the base]]. [[Feline]]s may have a sharply-pointed glans covered in [[W:Penile spines|soft barbs]]. [[Equine]]s often have [[W:Equine penis|a comparatively larger penis]], many with a flaring, mushroom-shaped glans.

Kangaroo males may have [[W:Kangaroo penis|a long, tapering, crooked penis]], with their testicles either hanging above it, like an anatomically correct [[marsupial]], or in a more [[primate]] fashion.

=== Vagina/Vulva ===

While there are many that utilize a humanoid vagina, there are some exceptions, such as the Y-slit [[Wikipedia:Vulva|vulva]] of canine furs.

'''[[Template:Did you know|Did you know]]?''': [[Female]] kangaroo [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/ have three vaginas]?.

==Dolphin genitalia==
[[Dolphin]]s are notoriously sexual and it has been argued that dolphins are the only species other than humans, and bonobos, known to have sex for fun, rather than exclusively for reproduction. To this end, speculation and folklore has spread about their abilities in this area through the internet and other media, particularly through the [[zoophile]] community.

Dolphin [[male]]s maintain their sleek body style by containing their penis within a slit along their ventral peduncle. Dolphins have been observed with the ability to extend and retract at will, often doing so while orienting with a potential mate. This observation has led many to state that a dolphin penis is prehensile, much like a [[monkey]] tail or [[elephant]] trunk, when this is actually untrue. [[wikipedia:Penis#Mammals|Most mammals have a vascular penis]], where blood flow causes the organ to swell and extend to erection. Dolphins, much like those of the [[equine]] species (to which they are [http://www.gma.org/marinemammals/natural_history_facts.html distantly related]), have a muscular organ which can be flexed or relaxed at will, but has no ability to move beyond what the muscles in the base of the genital region can orient it with.

Dolphin males have been described as having an extremely high-intensity [[wikipedia:ejaculation|ejaculation]] cycle, and some have described [[wikipedia:oral sex|oral sex]] as potentially lethal. It is confirmed that a dolphin male will ejaculate a substantial quantity of semen in a short time with some reports from 50ml to over 100ml in quantity, perceivable required due to the salt water environment that acts as a natural [[wikipedia:spermicide|spermicide]]. However, the pressure of delivery is not enough to cause bodily harm. You might want to think of it like this: Super Soaker brand water guns can shoot water with enough pressure to reach upwards of 50 feet. If a being can withstand that much water pressure at point blank range, it is highly improbable that a dolphin can kill you with an unfortunately aimed ejaculation.

Dolphin [[female]]s have been rumored to have an ability to clamp down on their partners and provide a milking action. Since they live in a salt water environment, females have certain internal adaptations to ensure salt water does not get into the internal reproductive organs. A male must push past multiple folds within the female's [[vagina]] and the female must control certain muscles in order to relax the folds and make herself able to be fertilized. It is perceivable that the muscles to do this could be used in a way to create a rippling effect, although it is unknown if this is commonly done. Trainers and swimmers have confirmed that certain dolphins have the ability to suck on objects with their genital regions, as has been experienced when a lusty animal uses a human's knee or fingers in such a way (an extremely uncommon occurrence).

== See also ==

* [[W:Genitalia|Genitalia]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[Furotica]]
* [[Yiff]]

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Genitalia

2014-07-07T16:47:23Z

Jarble: adding a section about dolphins

{{unreferenced}}
{{context}}
[[File:001 Sexual Organs Comparison.png|right|thumb|Human (primate) genitalia comparison chart]]
[[File:Pup Doug Winger.jpg|right|thumb|Pup, a shemale canine with humanoid male genitalia. Art © [[Doug Winger]].]]
'''Genitalia''' is defined as the [[Sex|sex organs]], or any [[Anatomy|anatomical parts]], which are involved in [[W:sexual reproduction|sexual reproduction]], and constitute the [[W:Reproductive system|reproductive system]] in a complex organism.

== Genitalia and furry ==

Many [[furries]] that design their [[character]]'s form to include anatomical parts use genitalia that's either [[human]]-like, [[animal]], or mix of both. This is most commonly an issue between [[male]] and [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic]] characters, since the [[penis]] varies much more widely between species than the [[vagina]].{{clarify}}

In [[furry art]], the depiction of the genitalia in it is what generally determines its [[W:Content rating|content ratings]].{{fact}} To some,{{who}} the existence of genitals is the defining line between [[Furry art|furry]] and [[funny animal]] art.{{fact}}

== Animalia anatomy and media ==
=== Penises ===

There are many{{who}} artists that design their characters with [[humanoid]] penis, many of which have it tucked inside a [[W:Penile sheath|penile sheath]] (the equivalent of a human [[W:Foreskin|foreskin]]), with the inclusion of animalistic features.

For example, [[canine]] characters may have a [[W:Canine penis|canine penis]] with a chisel tip and the process of [[W:Bulbus glandis|a knot at the base]]. [[Feline]]s may have a sharply-pointed glans covered in [[W:Penile spines|soft barbs]]. [[Equine]]s often have [[W:Equine penis|a comparatively larger penis]], many with a flaring, mushroom-shaped glans.

Kangaroo males may have [[W:Kangaroo penis|a long, tapering, crooked penis]], with their testicles either hanging above it, like an anatomically correct [[marsupial]], or in a more [[primate]] fashion.

=== Vagina/Vulva ===

While there are many that utilize a humanoid vagina, there are some exceptions, such as the Y-slit [[Wikipedia:Vulva|vulva]] of canine furs.

'''[[Template:Did you know|Did you know]]?''': [[Female]] kangaroo [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/ have three vaginas]?.

==Dolphin genitalia==
[[Dolphin]]s are notoriously sexual and it has been argued that dolphins are the only species other than humans, and bonobos, known to have sex for fun, rather than exclusively for reproduction. To this end, speculation and folklore has spread about their abilities in this area through the internet and other media, particularly through the [[zoophile]] community.

Dolphin [[male]]s maintain their sleek body style by containing their penis within a slit along their ventral peduncle. Dolphins have been observed with the ability to extend and retract at will, often doing so while orienting with a potential mate. This observation has led many to state that a dolphin penis is prehensile, much like a [[monkey]] tail or [[elephant]] trunk, when this is actually untrue. [[wikipedia:Penis#Mammals|Most mammals have a vascular penis]], where blood flow causes the organ to swell and extend to erection. Dolphins, much like those of the [[equine]] species (to which they are [http://www.gma.org/marinemammals/natural_history_facts.html distantly related]), have a muscular organ which can be flexed or relaxed at will, but has no ability to move beyond what the muscles in the base of the [[genital]] region can orient it with.

Dolphin males have been described as having an extremely high-intensity [[wikipedia:ejaculation|ejaculation]] cycle, and some have described [[wikipedia:oral sex|oral sex]] as potentially lethal. It is confirmed that a dolphin male will ejaculate a substantial quantity of semen in a short time with some reports from 50ml to over 100ml in quantity, perceivable required due to the salt water environment that acts as a natural [[wikipedia:spermicide|spermicide]]. However, the pressure of delivery is not enough to cause bodily harm. You might want to think of it like this: Super Soaker brand water guns can shoot water with enough pressure to reach upwards of 50 feet. If a being can withstand that much water pressure at point blank range, it is highly improbable that a dolphin can kill you with an unfortunately aimed ejaculation.

Dolphin [[female]]s have been rumored to have an ability to clamp down on their partners and provide a milking action. Since they live in a salt water environment, females have certain internal adaptations to ensure salt water does not get into the internal reproductive organs. A male must push past multiple folds within the female's [[vagina]] and the female must control certain muscles in order to relax the folds and make herself able to be fertilized. It is perceivable that the muscles to do this could be used in a way to create a rippling effect, although it is unknown if this is commonly done. Trainers and swimmers have confirmed that certain dolphins have the ability to suck on objects with their genital regions, as has been experienced when a lusty animal uses a human's knee or fingers in such a way (an extremely uncommon occurrence).
== See also ==

* [[W:Genitalia|Genitalia]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[Furotica]]
* [[Yiff]]

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Neutered furs

2014-07-07T16:16:07Z

Jarble: linking

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A '''neutered fur''' is [[furry]] person or [[character]] who has been neutered (from the [[Wikipedia:Latin|Latin]] '''neuter''' [of neither sex]), or is interested in neutering others. Neutering is the process of removing the [[genitalia|reproductive organs]] (typically the ovaries or uterus of a female, and the testicles or penis of a male) of an animal.

The neutering may be real or imaginary, and chemical or physical.

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Fixed Furs

2014-07-07T16:15:41Z

Jarble: linking

'''Fixed Furs''' is a [[LiveJournal]] community intended for "[[neutered furs|furries missing all or a portion of their sexual anatomy]]."<ref>http://community.livejournal.com/fixedfurs/profile Retrieved September 19, 2008.</ref> It was created in December 2006 and has 26 members as of September 2008. The concept of "fixed furs" may involve [[art|artwork]], stories, and other media depicting gelded or neutered [[anthropomorphic]] characters. The community contains 18 entries and was last updated on October 10 2009.<ref>http://fixedfurs.livejournal.com/profile Retrieved June 4, 2012.</ref>

* '''Address''': http://community.livejournal.com/fixedfurs/
* '''Ran from/to''': December 15, 2006 - present

== References ==
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Chita

2014-07-07T16:11:52Z

Jarble: Fixing a broken link

{{merge|Meow (person)}}
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{{Infobox website
| title = Chita
| image = [[File:Chita logo.png|250px]]
| caption =
| author = [[Meow (person)|Meow]]'''
| url = http://chita.us
| status =
| began = 23 July 2004
| ended = Ongoing
| genre = Blog
| rating = {{rating-nc17-button2}}
}}

'''Chita''' is an adult blog by [[Meow (person)|Meow]] of [[furry art]] by various artists, a few non-furry images and some original content. Unlike other furry image boards, most of images in Chita are the chosen artworks.

==Structure==
Images in Chita are classified by genders. There is no [[hermaphrodite]], violent, hyper, vore or watersport content in Chita.

===Genders===
* [http://chita.us/art/category/female/ Female] - Solo female character or [[homosexual]] female characters.
* [http://chita.us/art/category/male/ Male] - Solo male character or homosexual male characters.
* [http://chita.us/art/category/hetero/ Heterosexual] - Always featuring at least two characters.

===Specialised===
* [http://chita.us/art/category/meow/ Meow]
* [http://chita.us/art/category/sfw/ Safe for work] - Not exposing a female’s [[breast|nipples]] and [[vagina|vulva]] or a male’s [[penis]].
* [http://chita.us/art/category/wow/ World of Warcraft] - All images related to [[World of Warcraft]].

==History==
Chita was established as a [[w:phpBB#phpBB2|phpBB2]] internet forum for [[cheetah]]s on 23 July 2004. The forum of Chita switched to [http://punbb.informer.com PunBB] on 19 March 2006 and switched to [[w:phpBB|phpBB3]] on 5 June 2007.

On 11 October 2008, Chita transformed into a furry forum officially. On 19 January 2011, the forum of Chita was abandoned, and a new furry blog of Chita powered by [[wikipedia:WordPress|WordPress]] was established. Since October 2012, a new theme and a new logo of Chita are both adopted. On 18 November 2012, the entirely new homepage with [[:w:Metro (design language)|Metro design]] is launched.

==External links==
*[http://chita.us Chita]

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