I personally don’t really care that much, but I guess this is mostly about “living stuff out openly” vs. “keeping your fetish in non-public spaces”.
Yes, there are public mermaid events, but I don’t think those are perceived as less weird.
Being a furry is not common. What’s not common is treated as strange and potentionally harmful.
Being a furry is not common
The number of children who identify as a furry in your local grade school would shock you.
Yes, you’re right, preschool and grade school children do identify as animals a lot and they’re often not ashamed to express it, because it’s much more tolerated at that age. It’s viewed as wierd in adults though and it’s much more rare among adult people. Probably partially because it’s a juvenile trait and most people just grow out of that phase , partially because it’s viewed as juvenile (and wierd), so many of those who do not grow out of it are afraid to express it. I find it harmless, so I wish for more tolerance.
Somebody saying “I am a mermaid” would be looked at strangely too.
And dressing as a mermaid and going to mermaid convention to fuck other mermaids.
That would be strange. Mermaids don’t fuck each other, they get famously fucked by sailors.
I don’t think a sexy woman saying she’s a mermaid would get strange looks.
Because people didn’t dress up as mermaids and go to cons and express how deep down inside they truly are a mermaid, and have a high likelihood of fucking someone else who also felt the same way.
Not all furries believe themselves to be or want to be animals. It’s a simple interest in anthropomorphic animal art. You’re thinking of therians.
I don’t think many people had “a thing” for mermaids though. It was just another human creature with boobs. I don’t think most people thought about it any deeper than that
It’s always a minority thing. Just like with furries.
Not to be confused with therians, a taxonomic group.
Uh… I hate to tell you this but people absolutely dress as mermaids and do conventions… There’s a whole home industry of people who make custom silicon tails.
didn’t
Past tense.
Dunno what to tell yeh mate, it’s about as oldif not older than Furry culture. Weeki Watchee springs started a whole thing with their Mermaid shows and the subculture basically took off from like the early 60’s… And was probably about as horny as a lot of other subcultures that started around the same time.
Huh. New kink unlocked.
I happened to be staying in Key West at the same time as a convention. There absolutely are people who believe they are mermaids.
Probably because old folks know that mermaids are a myth and don’t identify as mermaids ( although ai think I saw a docuseries about a 30ish year old thinking he was one) Where as furries bleed the line between what might be fetish realm, and what might be some people actually believing/thinking they are a furry animal–which would be considered a delusion.
I mean, the point of a mermaid isn’t that it’s a sexy looking fish, it’s that other than its tail, it looks like beautiful human women. In some stories, sailors don’t even realize they’re taking to mermaids because their tails are underwater. Also, mermaids were generally considered bad omens or malicious entities, and when they did seduce humans, it was usually to kill them, so it’s not like the folklore was very pro-mermaid sex.
Probably because furries are a fetish and mermaids come from mythology
Mermaids mythology originated as sailors’ fetish.
50% of mythology is just fetish, just check out Greek mythology. People most definitely masturbated to mythology in the past based on the amount of fetish oozing out of the stories.
You can’t tell me the ancient Greek equivalent to furries didn’t think Zeus transforming into animals and fucking was hot.
Can confirm. Watching 50 Shades of Greek told me way too many aspects of the Greek mythology. The Intro alone sums it up perfectly.
To be fair, I think people looked at the folks who were into mermaids as outlandish too. “Been around for a long time” doesn’t mean the same thing as “totally accepted socially”.
But weren’t mermaids seen as dangerous, irresistible sirens also. So the blame was on the evil mermaid, not the person.
Shaggy the pirate over here
Picture this, we were both butt naked, banging on the sea bed floor.
She caught me with the flounder
Wasn’t me
Saw us making chowder
Wasn’t me
I came to say this. When has being with a mermaid been an acceptable thing. Furries are much more accepted I think than that just in numbers alone.
Being with a mermaid is also an outlandish idea
I was gonna make a joke that it’s also an idea that’s on so many street corners and coffee cups. However after googling I found out that it’s a siren on the Starbucks logo and not a mermaid. My joke fails on both humour and fact.
What is a siren, but a mermaid?
there are different depictions of sirens. most commonly they are depicted as creatures similar to harpies. the mermaid form is second most common i think.
Sirens depicted as harpies? Source?
Wow. Thank you for that. I didn’t know.
There’s a difference?
Furries aren’t as recent as people tend to think either I might point out, the subculture has existed in some form since like the 80s to my understanding, it’s just more popular and visible these days.
We had a general fen con in the area that was known for two large groups. furries and klingons. furries grew so big they did their own dedicated con. to bad because we had two dance rooms and the fur one had the ac maxed. was so great. dance in the regular one till you are sweating like a pig then move to the fur one.
A lot longer than that. Let me dig and see if I can find the reply someone sent me a while ago
Edit: Tracked it down
Oh I mean, yeah, anthro characters are probably older than civilization, but I meant the furry fandom as a specific subculture rather than specifically the subject it is centered around.
I went to dragon con one year, people were dressed in all sorts of costumes even though it’s not a furry con. And I know the hotels where the con is are incredibly hard to book. That said just once I want some senior executive to accidently book a room in one because he has some meeting with a potential client of something and just so happen to click it at the right time.
He shows up and is completely bewildered by all the people in costumes. “you’ll never believe it mark. I rode down the elevator with a robot and I swear to God… Tiny from Bob’s burgers”
My partner went to a convention in another city. He was caught off guard by the number of dudes in leather and fetishwear that he saw around the hotel when he first arrived but just thought the city must have a diverse and adventurous night life.
The next morning on his way out he spotted a poster, it was “The Bear Ball” weekend, some disco themed big gay guy event, and the hotel he was in was the headquarters, which explains why most of the other attendants of his conference were being housed in a different hotel.
He said he had some great people watching for the next couple days.
You should be a TV writer.
My brother in Christ, werewolves existed for at least 150 years and shape shifting goes back hundreds more. A beast that becomes a person… What could that possibly be for? A person becoming a beast is easy and the not weird part of folk history that didn’t upset any kind of established morals. Violence is a part of life. Hot wolf dick that escapes into the night after making sweaty sheets? More difficult to keep as an oral tradition. Well, in stories at least.
Egyptian and Mesopotamian ruins are full of furry pics, it’s literally the oldest fandom in the world.
Bist because the idea is older doesn’t make it any less weird.
Now ask them about reversed mermaid
I mean, the mermaid is missing the part I like the most…
You want the other kind of mermaid…
Those are some nice legs…
the fur?
The cloaca?
