That's why I call TF the chocolate of fetishes... it goes well with anything!

That is quite true! It even goes well with chocolate... If you enjoy food based TF's owo;.

TF was kindof my in-road. I can trace back at least elements of other kinks, and some exist very much on their own, but when I was 14, TF was my biggest turn-on. I found furries because I was searching the internet for animal transformation art. After that, I had a safe playground for exploring every other kink that came up for me.

While many kinks can occur on their own, for their own reasons, transformation is a good excuse for any kink you can imagine. Since TF is rather fantastical, there are no limits to it and what it can do. TF can even be invisible, occurring on the inside only. Often that takes the form [pun intended] of mental changes, which I tend to avoid, but I do like it when a character winds up with new desires or urges as a result of TF. It may also be changes to other inside organs, something which I think is not considered quite as often, but which I love mainly for what it can bring about. It can, again, result in new urges--a male character who develops a womb may experience higher female hormones and may find himself struggling to understand a new inexplicable desire: the desire to get pregnant. An enlarged or extra stomach may result in more frequent eating, and perhaps more indiscriminant eating. Their body, even if unchanged on the outside, may be capable of digesting all sorts of horrible things.

Of course, I enjoy the physical, visible, aspects of it quite a lot, too. A basic anthro or full-animal TF isn't enough for me, even though it once was. I, too, need more drastic TF or other kinks to be involved or follow. A transformation, of sorts, in my interests.

I've sometimes talked about how certain types of transformation, especially the stranger ones, are like physical embodiments of various kinks for me. Less often I've mentioned (although considered) how other kinks that have their own categories can also be considered transformation as well, or are at least closely related. Transformation means a change of form, or perhaps even most simply a change, although we focus on the body most often with it. There are obvious things like muscle growth or fattening, hyper-growth of sexual parts, and macro/micro stuff. Inflation and pregnancy are often grouped as other things, but they, too, are changes in the body. With a bit of a stretch, diaper use can tie in, even without the age regression. If a character becomes incontinent and needs diapers, that is an internal change...arguably a transformation in some ways.

It's possible to get more conceptual with it. A character becoming latex or rubber is undoubtedly TF, but a character wearing it? Well, if it's a full-body gimp suit, they may look as if a living creature of latex, which may change how others interact with them. For some people, there is the aspect of it obscuring or completely removing someone's identity, which I think has many common threads with transformation. It also (and this is what interests me the most) transforms how the person wearing it interacts with the world. Their sense of touch is dulled, filtered through what covers them. Bondage aspects of the suit will further alter this--they may be unable to see, may be gagged and unable to speak. If their ears are covered thickly enough, it becomes harder or impossible to hear. The hands may be covered by bondage mitts, further altering how they interact with the world around them. Conceptually, this is a transformation, so the kink itself is closely related.

I think that's part of the allure of transformation: change itself. To wax psychological for a moment, as human creatures we are often wary of change because it represents the unknown. We can speculate, but we don't know exactly what will happen. Dealing with change and the unknown in a fantasy context allows us to take control and/or eroticize (and in my mind "make good") something which might normally scare us. (And if we're honest with ourselves, to experience an actual physical transformation in reality, even a small one, would be at least a little scary, if only because of the potential consequences from other people.)

Change in transformation is not just about what is gained, it is also about what is lost. Even if a character doesn't physically "lose" anything, i.e. a character becoming a hermaphrodite, and getting larger sexual organs, they have, in a sense, lost part of their identity, and lost a sense of normalcy. Even in a scenario where such things are normal, we still have our own personal experiences to draw from, and we know that if it happened in our world it would not be normal at all. I love the "aftermath" of a TF, exploring the new form, learning about it, understanding it, because that continues to deal with the changes. Often, even if I don't deal directly with TF in a story or RP, I like my focal character to have been human previously. The human starting point gives me more room for change; it starts me with the common familiar, making the start easier, and also allowing whatever changes that come to be that much bigger. That also brings about the loss of humanity, at least in a physical sense. While it's not a detail I consciously focus on, I find myself thinking now that it must be something of note for me.

Transformation can be a study of contrasts. Soon after a transformation, and perhaps even far later, the character will think about the "then" and the "now;" what was, and what is. Used to be two legs, now it's four.

Well, that's a lot of words. Too many for now, I think.

Now that I think about it, it's definitely true that a lot of TF kink material tends to focus less on the loss and more on the accommodation and gains that are associated with the changing forms. Though, if most of the stories in question focused purely on the tragedy that came with the transformation I think it would lose some of its appealing nature. Of course, there is much to be said about the growth of the erogenous zones! As with my stories they tend to be much of the focus of the transformations. I like interesting changes to them, hence why TG or perhaps even inanimate/ plant-based TFs interest me a lot. I suppose you could consider the twisting of such things symbolic of a twisted sexuality?

I like lots of TF, but my favorites tend to center around involuntary/unwanted TF. something strikes me as a bit off when someone welcomes something as strange as a transformation - at least right off the bat. I can't imagine someone not freaking out at something of the sort at least initially.

I like were-thing TFs and sciency TFs x3.

I really like the idea of lycanthropy just due to how it is an exploration into the realm of TF becoming a normal thing. It really gives it the kind of air of... trying to fit into society with having such a huge determent (or advantage if you look at it in a certain light) to your human nature. I kind of prefer civil werewolves to the savage beast variety really. And I guess I have an idea of what I should try doing with you later then X3.