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Has anyone ever seen something close to a black and tan coonhound as a fursuit? Trying to get some ideas here before I go ahead and look at getting a suit commisoned.

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PETA wants to get into porn to make people more aware of animal abuse.

The Norfolk-based animal-rights group has applied to launch a website under the soon-to-be-available ".xxx" domain, which will feature pornographic sites, Lindsay Rajt, the organization's associate director of campaigns, said Monday.

"As soon as we heard that the.xxx domain was becoming available, we thought that would be triple extra effective in helping us bring our important issues of animal rights and eating a vegan diet to a greater number of people," said Rajt, who is based in Los Angeles.

The site, she said, will have nudity and "sexually suggestive content" but not hard-core porn: "A lot of people distinguish between erotica and pornography, and this will be erotica."

The pornographic images, Rajt said, would lead viewers to "information and graphic imagery of how animals suffer in the food industry."

"That's what we hope will shock people, get them talking, question the status quo and take action that benefits animals," she said.

The idea will backfire on PETA, said Daniel Howard, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

"It makes them appear as if their organization is extremist," Howard said. "Even though some have accused them of being that way in the past, they're about to confirm it.

"There are a lot of ways to get your message out there," he said, "but doing it through a pornography website is not a socially acceptable way of going about it, at least according to a vast majority of Americans."

Rajt said, however: "We live in a 24-hour news cycle world. We've found that it's the racier things we do that are most effective in grabbing people's attention."

The tactic would extend the group's strategy of using provocative images, often including scantily clad women, to gain attention.

"Nudity," Rajt said, "is a tactic that PETA uses with some regularity." Actresses have been photographed naked for the organization's "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" campaign. And in some cities, such as Brattleboro, Vt., "we are able to do a totally nude demonstration," Rajt said.

That has made PETA a target for feminist groups. Rajt said everyone who participated in previous campaigns and will be seen on the ".xxx" site is acting voluntarily.

"They are willing adults who are dedicated to helping animals," she said. "We think people have the right to use their bodies as a form of political protest."

PETA, Rajt said, applied earlier this month to launch the website peta.xxx with ICM Registry, based in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The earliest that PETA could receive approval, she said, is Nov. 7. If that happens, "we would be able to put it up that week."

Bronx Bunny and Teddy T quiz Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill about Star Wars and porn.

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Download Standard Podcasts ActFur s3 ep11 - Panda Power

Started Cegep (I live in Canada, Cegep here = pre-University for you, so I am told) this semester, educational and fun and stuff right. So anyways, I see some people with tails. No, not wearing them, just tagged on their backpacks (you know, like having pins tacked on back-packs equivalent) I'm not a shy person, but I do limit myself to WHY. (I ask "Hey:" Where did you get? How much? Nice! Cute!) I wonder if it has to do with person has GF/BF, or if it might just be a new thing that has caught on.

EDIT :Ty Owleyed, that's the answer I wanted to hear. Ty everyone for your imput, now to find that store that dude was talking about.

Tails, especially real ones, are catching on as keychains and purse accessories and all that.I've even seen them in music videos.

EDIT2: seeing as how this is topical, the one I would be searching for would be faux tail. The only real tail I'd want would be one I could wag (preaching to the choir better stop here).

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So I was reading HappyWulf's IAMA Furry thread and got to pondering on the boundary between creepy and not. I'd love to be a little more affectionate at furmeets but usually hold back cause I don't wanna be creepy or represent furries badly. I have a history of being overly shy and careful, but have improved on that a whole lot.

I don't have a lot of specific questions or guidelines for this question. Whatever it means to you, however it may splinter off into different discussions, that's fine.

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Archie Comics have announced the upcoming release of Sonic the Hedgehog Legacy, Volume 1 trade paperback this coming October. It’s part of a whole series of new Sonic the Hedgehog graphic novels that Archie will be releasing soon in a larger format to try and appeal to older readers. Publisher’s Weekly has the skinny on all of that. Meanwhile, Legacy features over 500 pages of Sonic and the Freedom Fighter’s early adventures, collecting together issues #0 – #3 of the original Sonic mini-series and issues #1 – #16 of the ongoing series.

image c. 2011 Archie Comics

Cigna, a large health insurance company, has started running a series of commercials called 'GO YOU'.
The first is 'You are Born an Original. It is Up to You to Stay that Way', but that is not the commercial I was looking at.
The second commercial in the series is called 'Never Forget You're One of a Kind': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INQsUPo2SLM

If you take a look at 0:12, there is a guy walking down the sidewalk is , what I can best guess, a bear suit.

I see this as a little nod towards the fandom, and our 'being one of a kind'.

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Thought some of you would find this cute or sexy

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/09/21/fox_hunt

-J

Note: This is an opinion article. The views expressed in this article do not directly reflect the views of the Furry News Network as a whole or the views of any of its affiliates.

Original Article: https://web.archive.org/web/www.furrynewsnetwork.com/2011/09/room-366-“how-furries-realize-sex-sexuality-exist”/

To begin, allow me to congratulate AsylumCat for being bold and brave enough to, as he said, get up on a soapbox and speak to the fandom about this subject. Not many furs have the audacity to talk about this highly controversial topic for fear of ensuing drama or other negative attention associated with it.

I agree with the point that many of the furries who are attempting to shield us from all the negative attention are, at the very least, ineffective. For years, perhaps decades now, the fandom has had a preverbal dark cloud hovering over it in the mainstream media. No amount of “Oh, that doesn’t really happen,” or “Well, that is just about 10% of the population,” can cover up the truth that some furries do in fact have sex in fursuits. The trouble with stereotypes is that fact that in order for them to become stereotypes, they have to be true some of the time.

However, that isn’t to say that we should remove the people actively working to clean up the image of the fandom. That would be extremely counterintuitive and would open ourselves up to a whole new form of media attack. Let’s say that if the fandom were a bull-riding competition and a vast majority of the riders removed the rodeo clowns from the ring, that would leave the riders (the furry fandom itself) without the aid the clowns (the “Shield Furs”) and at the mercy of the bull (the media).

The efforts of the “Shield Furs” are not something to be scrutinized or degraded. It is really such a bad thing to have even a tiny group of people trying to uphold some sense of cleanliness in the fandom? I would certainly say not. Any potential fur that discovers the fandom will be subjected to some of the worst the fandom has to offer –Heaven knows we all were. In my opinion, without that group off to the side of the furpile waving their arms to invite the new fur over, the fandom would begin to die; even though there may not be any noticeable change at first. Those furries who are interested little in the smut and are more concerned with the social aspect of the fandom will lose considerable interest if they are constantly surrounded by it.

As a friend of mine put it, “Whenever I tell someone that I’m a furry, I show them the Wikipedia page. I tell them, however, to not look at the bottom of the page.” Is it really so wrong that some furries want to make the fandom a – dare I say it, kid-friendly environment? One of the primary reasons FurAffinity has the content filter in place, besides avoiding lawsuits of course, is to make the website friendly and accessible to young or brand-new furs who want to explore the fandom for what it truly is underneath.

That is not to say that I believe the sexuality isn’t a major part of the furry culture. In all honesty, I believe that sex and the fandom go together like toast and jam. Sex is hard-wired into the brains of every human being and for some of us it’s the only thing we generally think about. What I believe most of the “Shield Furries” are attempting to do by denying the existence of pornography and smut in the fandom is that they are trying to attract more people who have a sense of balance in their sexual appetites; rather than the ravenous porn-addicts that only seek the fandom for its yiff yaff. If you were to turn the content filter on (referring to FurAffinity again) and search a popular artist with hundreds or thousands of watchers, I can almost guarantee that you will only see maybe 10 submissions out of their listed 200. Does that mean the fandom or its artists are purely sex driven? Of course not, yet they are still a major part of the entire population.

AsylumCat mentioned how anime, yaoi, loli, and tentacle fans do not have to, “Come out of the closet” when telling their families and friends. I believe there is a very simple reason behind this fact. Anime fans do not shove pornography into the limelight like the furry fandom does.

If you Google the word, “Furry” and go to Google Images, the first picture is of Krystal in a provocative pose and the second is a deer chained up while wearing leather. Scroll down just a level or two more and you find a nude picture of a jaguar. Google Image the word, “Anime” and you will find quite a few pictures of anime drawings before you find something considered inappropriate. Many of you are probably thinking that the nude and seductive photographs are not pornography. The fact of the matter is, the very first images the general internet public see are sexual and fetish related. This, I believe, is the driving factor behind the “Shield Furries” and their efforts.

Markos Sinister, the head of the Furry News Network, wrote that he noticed a double-standard amongst the furry fandom and the anime fandom. I believe the reason behind this negative vibe between the two extremely similar sub-cultures is due likely because of the way we present ourselves. Anime fans generally present themselves as… well nerds having a fun time at their conventions. Furry fans are no different in that aspect. However, when you look at it more closely, ComicCon receives more positive media attention than AnthroCon. Why? Well, if the “Room 366” video has anything to say about it, it’s that furries are sex-crazed animal-costume-wearing nut jobs.

Now, is this true? Absolutely not! Yet with videos like that circling around the internet, what kind of message are we sending out about ourselves? It worries me to no end that furries are actually approving the fact that the video leaked out. Sure, some may claim that the video was made as a joke or some such malarkey; but stop and consider what that video is broadcasting to the world about us.

“Look. Sex exists in the fandom. Suiters do it, random people do it, kinky furs REALLY do it. STOP marginalizing it and just EMBRACE IT. You don’t have to do it, but you shouldn’t act like it doesn’t happen nor should you try to stop it. Grow the fuck up.”

Yes, sex does exist in the fandom. That was established a long time ago. However, resisting the sexual perversions and wishing the fandom had less of it is not a damnable offence. Denying the existence of something that brings shame to that particular person is not a horrible thing. Honestly, I don’t think anyone is necessarily trying to stop it – it would be, at this point, a failed attempt right from the start. Saying that the “Shield Furs” and the “Squeaky Clean” furs need to “Grow the fuck up” and “Embrace” the thing that has caused our beloved fandom so much difficulty is an insult. Without the clean half of the fandom to balance out the dirty half, there will not – rather there cannot, be a generally positive reaction from the public media.

It would be as if you were to tell your white blood cells to stop doing their job in protecting your body because you know that bacteria and viruses are already in your body.

In conclusion, I do believe that every furry knows that sex and smut is an everyday part of the furry fandom. I also believe that a vast majority, myself included, accept it as inevitable. I also believe that saying people need to grow up and stopping worrying about the consequences is ignorant. Saying that those who dedicate their time to promoting the positive, non-sexual side are doing, “injustices” to the fandom is an injustice all its own.

Some claim that people need to start accepting the fandom for what it truly is; sex-filled and naughty. I say that those same people need to accept the fact that in any argument, there will always be opposition. They need to start accepting the fact that there are, and always will be, “Shield Furs” who resent the dirty side of the fandom and hope to restore its image in the public.

-Rainstar