Archives for: February 2008

NY Arts informs us that photographer Michael Cogliantry has dabbled in the world of furry:

Las Vegas became the site for another project entitled Furry Kama Sutra. I really wanted to create a group of pictures based on the anonymity of users on the web. Furries made sense to me because they are people who congregate both online and in person, often with hidden identities. In the fur-suit, one can leave the confines of his computer room and venture out into the real world with other like-minded people, still remaining anonymous. The collection of the ten “kama sutra” poses was shot at various “by-the-hour” motels around Las Vegas. The project was eventually turned into a fur covered artist book produced in an edition of 500.

Michael Cogliantry, Panda and Reindeer, Las Vegas, Nevada.

NY Arts article
Michael Cogliantry’s website

The Gazette, another student newspaper, reports on the fetish-related researches of psychology professor Guy Grenier. If the rest of his research is up to the same standard as his “findings” about furries I sure hope he has tenure:

Participants in “plushie play” have a fuzzy fixation on toys with anthropomorphically human characteristics. A plushie doll might have big doe eyes, a cutesy smile, and human-like breasts and vagina.

“Plushie play juxtaposes the cute and cuddly with the down and dirty,” Grenier says.

Some plushophiles, more commonly known as furries, dress up as animals during sex. Grenier notes fox, rabbit and kitten costumes with “trap doors” for organs and orifuses(sic) are sold and traded at fetish conventions.

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The student journos are at it again. “Sex Columnist” Lucy Moore of the St. Louis Washington University’s catchingly-named Student Life regales us with this touching tale of a Sonic fan:

One Wash U. senior, who preferred to remain anonymous (and will be referred to here as “Liz"), dated a man who turned out to be a furry. He connected himself with a hedgehog similar to Sonic of Sega Genesis fame. While many websites discussing furries make it clear that not all furries are sexually inclined, Liz says that “Sonic” surrounded himself with friends who were all part of the furry community, and they all engaged in furry sexual activity. While first looking at furry porn, predominantly fantasized illustrations of different anthropomorphic animals engaged in sex acts, he then went on to ask her to “call him super Sonic in bed” and explained his angry behavior by saying “his spikes were out.” One woman friend of his, known for her sexual furry side, called herself “Dragonwolf” and, as Liz confides, “treated me like a leper when I wouldn’t believe I was a housecat [her associated animal according to Sonic].”

Full article here

A generic pre-FC ‘08 piece from the Santa Cruz Good Times Weekly featuring interviews with a couple of fursuiters. A laudable attempt to set the record straight after all these years is incorporated:

Furry blogs refute Vanity Fair’s famous March 2001 article, which reportedly confused furries for plushies—or people with a sexual attraction to stuffed animals. Furries were similarly misrepresented as orgiastic on “Fur and Loathing,” a 2003 episode of the CBS television show Crime Scene Investigators, and MTV’s 2002 documentary Sex2K included a segment on furries, for which filmmaker Rick Castro has been accused of deceiving convention organizers and falsely depicting the fandom as kinky.

Also this:

Yet reports of questionable activities do sometimes surface. “I’ve had a lot of sex at furry conventions,” admits Howling, “but I’m a slut, and I arranged the party.” Howling emphasizes that he doesn’t represent the larger furry population, and that said activities were not part of the convention schedule.

Full article at GTWeekly