It was early in the millennium that I first heard about “furries” and their sometimes-sexual fetishizing of anthropomorphized animals, but it wasn’t until a year ago that I realized it didn’t necessarily mean having a moving experience with a plush paramour.
“It’s about being in cat consciousness,” a girl at a furry event told me; In six words, she conveyed what six years of squinting at it hadn’t brought across. It wasn’t necessarily about a threesome with Hello Kitty and Pokémon. It was about leaving your human stress … traffic, bills, family, work, body issues … and becoming a something else, in her case a kitteh, a creature born to cuddle. It was about fantasy.
We all give reality the heave-ho almost every chance we get via TV, drugs, sports, shopping or whatever our version of “cat consciousness” is. Sexual role-play can do the same by providing a creative adventure that liberates couples from real-world stress and gives their real sex lives a boost. Plus, it has the word “play” in it. Between trying to look perfect and “achieve” orgasm, as though there’s a sales quota, people sometimes forget that sex is supposed to be fun.
“It’s about being in cat consciousness,” a girl at a furry event told me; In six words, she conveyed what six years of squinting at it hadn’t brought across. It wasn’t necessarily about a threesome with Hello Kitty and Pokémon. It was about leaving your human stress … traffic, bills, family, work, body issues … and becoming a something else, in her case a kitteh, a creature born to cuddle. It was about fantasy.
We all give reality the heave-ho almost every chance we get via TV, drugs, sports, shopping or whatever our version of “cat consciousness” is. Sexual role-play can do the same by providing a creative adventure that liberates couples from real-world stress and gives their real sex lives a boost. Plus, it has the word “play” in it. Between trying to look perfect and “achieve” orgasm, as though there’s a sales quota, people sometimes forget that sex is supposed to be fun.
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