*nod* I like some sexbased stuff, but I have to feel the emotion of the characters to really consider it worth looking at.. and anatomy shouldn't be compromised in order to get a better peek.

aka it's not... "Look at my dick, my dick is amazing.. Give it a lick!"

It tastes just like raisins???

I'm with ya on the "Porn is boring" part. I don't mind others enjoying it, but it is not for me. I keep my adult filter up almost all the time

I'd be a liar to say I do not peruse art of adult nature from time to time.

That being said I do think there is an over-value of it in the fandom, and to some in the fandom.

Late Sunday night at Fur'theMore my roommate was talking with a furry and introduced me. He spent the next few minutes showing us adult pictures of his character drawn in a variety of different pictures with a variety of different characters drawn by different artists.

It really was a bit odd, it was like that was supposed to be impressive or something? I mean, I knew nothing about him as a person by the end of the night, other than he has his fursona drawn in a lot of adult situations. I tolerated it though cause there really was nothing better to do at that point in the night as things had died down. Needless to say we really didn't become friends or anything.

It's hilarious in a way, I mean, can you imagine meeting someone and the first thing they do is show you a porn they stared in?

Furrys are weird.

Sometimes furries seem to suffer from penis envy..they seem to envy and want all penises..UGH
frankly..tasteful nudity or even tasteful suggestiveness of nudity has far more impact IMHO..it allows one to use their imagination about things not clearly seen but alluded to. But alas..that would require brain function beyond the one neural tract from eye to genitals.
ALAS..I never do like the in-your-face porn stuff
it does nothing for me nor do I see it as art.

I don't believe porn is based on shock value.

People are drawn to porn that sparks desire in them. It's more about a wish to make normal something that is not than a wish to be shocked. Porn that shocks someone turns them off straightaway. We can see this in the way most people react to "extreme" kinks. People who are into extreme kinks are the ones who aren't shocked by them. They feel drawn to something unusual and wish it could be part of their life in a deeper way. There's no way to meet that desire, though. They're aware of how bizarre and isolated they are. It gets channeled into art. Furries produce a ton of art because the very idea of furry is "extreme" to the average person. At the same time, it's got this huge sensorium potential. Being a furry biologically would feel different in every way than being a human. It's a fantasy at once beautiful and isolating. What you see as boring and emotionless is what others see as a realm of experience they long to touch. It's something that they're painfully cut off from.

That's even before romance. We live in a culture where famous singers pour their heart out to the world about how desperately horny they are, and the result gets called a "love song". Most people don't even know the difference between romance and sex. The audience of porn-viewers seem so likely to be in that category that I don't think we can fairly judge them as unfeeling sexbots.

Most furries like porn. Most furries don't like shocking, brutal porn. Rape isn't love in furrydom. Bloody pictures make for unpopular artists. There are nonconformists who are drawn to everything bizarre because it's bizarre, but they're expressing an unhappiness in the way common culture tries to squash unusual things. I expect the only porn viewers who really hunt down the most brutal things are those who have been dissociated by trauma. Visceral reactions still feel real to people who've lost faith in the reality of good things. That visceral reaction is rare and undesirable for your average furry when they're hunting for average porn.

I've been sitting on this reply since you first posted this journal because I was afraid it would be a drama-magnet. I'm still afraid of that... I just decided, well, I consider you a friend. I'm not a good friend if I'm too afraid to talk to you. It's not like you said you hate porn. You just called it boring. I would like it if I could shed some light on it and make your world a little brighter.

Porn does not function for me as it "should", I guess?

Most people will look at porn and use it as inspiration and, well, masturbate to it. I can't do that, and it is ineffective. I think that a lot of the porn on this site would be better off, artistically speaking, if the artist wasn't trying SO HARD to make it sexy. Or outlandish.

I don't know.

Most people show me porn, a video, or even a photo of someone or, hell, point to someone on the street, and say "DAMN, that is hot!" And all I can say is...

"Oh." "Okay."

I guess I hate it because I'm mad that I don't get it. It's a giant inside joke that I just don't get.