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Tom A. Fox 🔞
@TomAFox@meow.social

Long reply about the importance of NSFW

@sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party I voted for the "I wouldn't be into the fandom" option. Sure, NSFW is a big part of what I like, as you could probably guess by the 🔞 in my username.
But the biggest reason is that the furry community is about being your real self, unobstructed by social norms.
And if people have to self-censor their sexuality to fit SFW standards, well what other social norms would be expected of everyone?
Even if it's in SFW contexts, would enough furries have the courage to be openly queer? What about furries who are still discovering themselves, would they feel safe to do so in fully sanitized spaces?
Yes, there are many SFW spaces already, but often those are backed by NSFW (adjacent) furries, even when it's not obvious. For example, when Tumblr banned any NSFW works on the platform in 2018, many SFW people left too.
Another thing I want to point out is that due to the large presence of NSFW stuff in the community, it's hard for puritan corporations to interact with furries, and in this age of late-stage capitalism I gladly accept any space away from corporations.

And lastly, i like saying "nice cock" to my friends :3

Vincent Sparks
@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer

@TomAFox@meow.social @sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party This is a really important point, which I'd like to build on. Attending the night market at Further Confusion 2025 was a transcendent experience for me. It was the first time I had ever been part of an openly queer-as-in-sexual space. It was the first time I had really been exposed in meatspace to the fact that there were people other than me who were horny in the same way I was, and that being horny was by no means something to be ashamed of. It also gave me a /much/ better idea of what an average body looks like. Most of the people in that room were shirtless. While there were a few hot twinks with abs that I got a bit of body envy from, they were outnumbered five to one by shirtless people proudly showing off their bellies. It was eye-opening and encouraging to see, in person, people who weren't Hollywood hot not being ashamed of how they looked.

Vincent Sparks
@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer

@TomAFox@meow.social @sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party

Experiences like that one are something every young queer (and, I'd argue, every allosexual person) needs to have in order to grow up not being ashamed of their sexuality, which, provided all their tastes are safe, sane, and consensual, is something that no one, anywhere, should be.

I think if the furry fandom reacted the same way to events like that as we do to zoophiles, not just the furry fandom but the queer community as a whole would be the lesser for it.

I would still participate in the furry fandom and go to furcons if no NSFW was allowed, because fursuiters are fun to look at and second only to fat people when it comes to giving hugs, but my primary reason for participating in the fandom as things stand is queer counterculture. While I'm sure that would still be present to an extent, we as queer people would still be self-censoring to a massive degree and I'd argue a large part of counterculture, if not the whole, is to not do that.