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What I learned at Kink Camp.
a year ago
Camp Crucible is coming up, although I'm not going this year, i'm thinking about it. its safe to say that the 7 times i went to Camp changed my life. it brought me out of my furry shell into the larger world of kink, and taught me a great deal about who I am and what kink is or can be.
Furry fandom is organized socially along kink lines. Inflation furs hang out with other inflatophiles. Babs are friends with other babs. vore furs are friends with vore furs. you can move among the groups, but its generally how it shakes out. You won't be friends with everyone who shares your kink, but its at least one point of common ground. The thing is, its mostly fantasy-based, in RP, and art.
A lot of furry kinks are impossible in real life. We come close as we can in some areas, but there ain't no shrink rays IRL. This is fun but often makes things very conceptual and intellectual. Kink, as in BDSM culture, is VERY physical and far more concerned about "Real Life" actions with our human bodies.
For example, a fur might fantasize about being shrunk and stepped on by a giant paw. They might commission a drawing or write a story or RP a scene about it. At camp you would build a giant paw or find a mattress and have three friends jump on you with it. You'd learn a lot. Not to say that furries never build giant paws IRL (i know at least one!) but it's less common.
When I started going to camp I had to mentally shift from "this is a hot fantasy / fun concept" to "these are the RL things / environments / actions that can make this happen safely" - it provides certain strictures, because a lot of my fantasies are impossible, but when you nail it.. its great.
What camp taught me was that I can trust others to participate in these scenes with me and that if I extend that trust, it will be paid back to me in spades. Also the rewards for going outside my comfort zones into things I never thought I would like, were incredible.
The lines between kink and furry are more blurry than they used to be, and also between human ABDL and babyfurs, and I want to think i played a role in that. At least, I was willing to take a chance on kink camp and brought furries over with me, and brought the lessons kink taught me back to furry.
Furry fandom is organized socially along kink lines. Inflation furs hang out with other inflatophiles. Babs are friends with other babs. vore furs are friends with vore furs. you can move among the groups, but its generally how it shakes out. You won't be friends with everyone who shares your kink, but its at least one point of common ground. The thing is, its mostly fantasy-based, in RP, and art.
A lot of furry kinks are impossible in real life. We come close as we can in some areas, but there ain't no shrink rays IRL. This is fun but often makes things very conceptual and intellectual. Kink, as in BDSM culture, is VERY physical and far more concerned about "Real Life" actions with our human bodies.
For example, a fur might fantasize about being shrunk and stepped on by a giant paw. They might commission a drawing or write a story or RP a scene about it. At camp you would build a giant paw or find a mattress and have three friends jump on you with it. You'd learn a lot. Not to say that furries never build giant paws IRL (i know at least one!) but it's less common.
When I started going to camp I had to mentally shift from "this is a hot fantasy / fun concept" to "these are the RL things / environments / actions that can make this happen safely" - it provides certain strictures, because a lot of my fantasies are impossible, but when you nail it.. its great.
What camp taught me was that I can trust others to participate in these scenes with me and that if I extend that trust, it will be paid back to me in spades. Also the rewards for going outside my comfort zones into things I never thought I would like, were incredible.
The lines between kink and furry are more blurry than they used to be, and also between human ABDL and babyfurs, and I want to think i played a role in that. At least, I was willing to take a chance on kink camp and brought furries over with me, and brought the lessons kink taught me back to furry.
and the way i see it only if we all stand together we have a shot of existing in the future we need to stop kinkshaming each other and stay against the enemy that tries to destroy the entirety of the nsfw furry comunity