confessions of a furry toonophile
D.M. Quozl Falk
: In the thread "POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?", I glowingly described my
: attraction to the characters in the film "Bambi". I was a bit surprised
: that some here expressed, shall we say, "discomfort" with the idea that
: innocent furriness can titillate. This reaction has puzzled me, because
: I've just assumed there were many among us who have an erotic attraction
: to storybook and cartoon animals ("furry toonophilia").
Actually, there's toonophilia and anthropomorphophilia (furryphilia),
similar but a bit different...
I can claim being both a toonophile and a furryphile- The former is
unquestionably represented by my own writings and my toonsex FTP site...
Also, there's alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom, were toonsex is the norm, and not
just the Tiny Toons, either.... (Added here, BTW...)
: Now, I'm wondering: are toonophiles a minority here, or perhaps, am I a
: minority of one? That can't be, because *everything* we now think of as
: "furry" had their origins with the fantasy animals of fables, legends,
: and storybooks. Storybook animal illos are the ancestors of all furry
: art, and the characters we now call "toons" are their direct descendants.
: That being so, I think most furries are toonophiles to some extent. It's
: just that a few of us love toons in a very special, tender way...
I know there's quite a few that will readily admit to it, and others who
think such feelings are perverted...
: Let me tell you a little about my personal expression of toonophilia.
: I'm 41 now, a "born furry", and as far back as I can remember, I've been
: powerfully attracted to fantasy animal imagery (hey, by now, I *know*
: it's not "just a phase"! ;)
I am much the same way, though I'm only 30...
: When other kids were leering over Playboys,
: I was immersed in old English storybooks, LUSH with anthropomorphic art.
At about that time in my life, I was more interested in humans, not fully
realising my furryness, except for Easter-bunny fantasies that *were*
erotic... And then came the Captain Carrot comics! Before that, I wasn't
quite as immersed in furryness as you were, but I had Easter bunnies,
Snoopy, the WB toons, Pink Panther, M'Ress from the animated Star Trek,
ShirtTails and other mid-late-70's SatAM cartoons... But nothing quite as
erotic as the Easter bunny fantasies I've had since I was 10... Until
Albedo.... During the mid-late 80's, furry was a main part of my interest
in terms of both animation and comics, but mixed in with other
small-press "alternative" (or even less so) comics... By about 1990,
furry occupied almost all my character-based interests. The Easter bunny
fantasies were replaced by 6-foot anthro cats (after Albedo), squirrels,
mice, and skunks.... (And lately, I've has a series of dreams where I
traded my human body for that of a female skunkmorph, with full memory
and personality intact... Others had been having furry harems, mixed
species...)
: I couldn't help what happened when I gazed so fondly at those pictures,
: or when I watched my favorite cartoons. When I got aroused, I wasn't
: thinking about having sex with the creatures I was looking at; I didn't
: even know what sex was. These furry stirrings started half a decade
: before I hit puberty, so I have difficulty thinking of my desires as
: carnal, either then or now. It must be admitted that, of all things
: possible to the perverse mind of man, boinking over watching a happy,
: prancing toon bunny is about as innocent a fetish as can be imagined...
Some say otherwise, as it's considered "perversion of innocent cartoon
characters"--- My ass! With characters like Bugs Bunny, Pepe le Pew, Babs
bunny (and her gratuitous skirt peeks!) and Fifi la Fume, *amongst
others*, it's hard *not* to find some measure of sexuality in many
cartoon characters!
: <chuckle> Here's how my mind works. Wanna know what's *the* hottest
: image I've found so far in Furrydom? No, actually, I have to say, he's
: The-Sexiest-Thing-I've-Ever-Seen, period! It's Rocket Rabbit, pictured
: on the cover of Boudoir #5. <pulls at steaming collar> Oh, truly, that
: drawing of Rocky - fully clothed and *radiantly* moral - is almost too
: sexy for my mind to contain. His bright-eyed face, that shock of black
: fur on his forehead, his big toon bunny feet, his flared bunny tail...
: wow, I get warm and tingly all over just describing him! And the illo
: of Rocky with the blaster being pointed at his furry chest - oh my! His
: pose, with that simple, smooth, curved line betwixt his legs, sends my
: senses reeling like no anatomically-correct furrymorph ever could.
For me, it's David Bliss' Chimi (mouse), Eric W. Schwartz's Amy & Sabrina
(and the occaisional mousegirl), Joe Rosales' Musty (mink) & his various
skunkgirls and some others furrygirls), Many of Michele Light's
skunkettes, mice, bunnies, and squirrels, Steve Gallacci's Beatrix
Farmer, Taral Wayne's skunks, mice, and bunnies... Sean Wilkenson's
furrygirls... Oh, you get the idea... :)
And who COULDN'T drool over the cover of Wild Life #8 (as well as #1)...
Let's face it: sex sells... And I'd still love to see posters of the
above two... :)
: So, these are the confessions of a furry toonophile. Our furversion may
: be less graphic and spoogey than others', but vive le difference, non?
Well, who could deny there is something going on sexually in the
Springtime scene in "Bambi"?
....Quozl!
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Richard Chandler
I think the problem here is that SOMEBODY is not understanding that not
all reactions to beauty are necessarily sexual.
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D.M. Quozl Falk
: I think the problem here is that SOMEBODY is not understanding that not
: all reactions to beauty are necessarily sexual.
That depends on what one would consider "sexual". Sexuality is as much a
state of mind as it is a state of libido, and what one person finds
attractive, another may not.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
'Wilford Wolf' Bryan Chaney
feed doesn't carry....
On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Lontra wrote:
> In the thread "POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?", I glowingly described my
> attraction to the characters in the film "Bambi". I was a bit surprised
> that some here expressed, shall we say, "discomfort" with the idea that
> innocent furriness can titillate. This reaction has puzzled me, because
> I've just assumed there were many among us who have an erotic attraction
> to storybook and cartoon animals ("furry toonophilia").
>
> Now, I'm wondering: are toonophiles a minority here, or perhaps, am I a
> minority of one?
Hardly. Toonophiles and toon furries are the minority, but there
certainly others. Oddly, some within the furry community find toon
furries somehow strange. *shrug* It's just that the attraction, for me
at least of being both a furry *and* a toon are equally strong.
That can't be, because *everything* we now think of as
> "furry" had their origins with the fantasy animals of fables, legends,
> and storybooks. Storybook animal illos are the ancestors of all furry
> art, and the characters we now call "toons" are their direct descendants.
> That being so, I think most furries are toonophiles to some extent. It's
> just that a few of us love toons in a very special, tender way...
As Quozl pointed out in the other post, there is discussion of this in
alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom (and I would suspect, to some extent also in
rec.arts.anime.fandom, but you know fanboy and those cute anime
girls...I'd prefurr a cute anime cat girl ]:o}) Most of discussion
centers around WB toons, with some sliding into Simpsons and Disney toons.
[snip]
> <chuckle> Here's how my mind works. Wanna know what's *the* hottest
> image I've found so far in Furrydom? No, actually, I have to say, he's
> The-Sexiest-Thing-I've-Ever-Seen, period! It's Rocket Rabbit, pictured
> on the cover of Boudoir #5. <pulls at steaming collar> Oh, truly, that
> drawing of Rocky - fully clothed and *radiantly* moral - is almost too
> sexy for my mind to contain. His bright-eyed face, that shock of black
> fur on his forehead, his big toon bunny feet, his flared bunny tail...
> wow, I get warm and tingly all over just describing him! And the illo
> of Rocky with the blaster being pointed at his furry chest - oh my! His
> pose, with that simple, smooth, curved line betwixt his legs, sends my
> senses reeling like no anatomically-correct furrymorph ever could.
Some of the sexiest imagery I've ever seen has is one particular shot of
Rita in "Home on De-Nile". She looks positively sultry. ]:o}~~~~ There is
the Winger Minerva pictures, of course....
> So, these are the confessions of a furry toonophile. Our furversion may
> be less graphic and spoogey than others', but vive le difference, non?
While personal like some spooge, I much prefurr other furry art,
especially toon furry art. Probably because much of what I have is on a
personal level, the people I know toonified, to me just makes it that much
more special.
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: I think the problem here is that SOMEBODY is not understanding that not
: all reactions to beauty are necessarily sexual.
Of course, that is only a problem in a society where non-sexual
appreciation of something is considered "better" than sexual appreciation
in some way. A society that wants to pigeonhole reactions as "sexual or
non-sexual" and deny the reality that people's feelings often contain
elements of both. The combination being especially confusing to those
who want to judge one extreme bad and the other good - how do you label
feelings that are somewhere in the middle?
People are also often uneasy about the association of sexuality and
symbols of "innocence", like cartoons and stuffed animals. Because we
have a deep emotional association between "innocence" and "children", and
there's a powerful desire to protect children from having sex before
they're ready for it. We have a strong instinct to "protect innocence".
That's fine, but extending that protection to cartoons and stuffed
animals isn't necessary, they need no protection. Imaginary characters
don't get traumatized by things that their fans do. :X)
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