I think they mean the skin.

I think it goes for flesh in general, tongue, paws, skin. The stuff that shows the pink

Flesh is what's under the fur, so like the skin. This can also apply to any fleshy parts that show like pads or tongue. I'd clarify with the commissioner to be sure =3

I guessss it could mean either one depending on the person

i think its anything that shows the inside of the body!
pink flesh = red blood
red blood = pink tongue, paw pads, etc

I'd always think the color of the blood matched the color of the flesh~ So maybe a darker purple?

In every experience I've seen, it means the color of any visible skin. AKA the paw pads, tongue, inner ears, possibly nose, ect ect. c:

Errbody explained it nicely~ I've always thought it was the skin/meaty bits that aren't covered in fur. So like what ingodt said~

I think its the meat and guts.
cause people usually only tell me if they want me to do a guro peace.
and they never tell me the pawpad/skin/tongue colour so I just gotta guess or ask most of the time.

I see your getting a lot of mixed answers but I think it just depends on the person...
I personally think its weird to call skin flesh cause flesh is meat and skin is skin...


The first use of flesh being used to describe skin was in the 1610s... sooo.... yeah

Yeah its old so its fair to assume the word Can mean skin.
It maybe came to mean paws and other skin bits more in the furry community because furies don't usually show skin and"fleshy bits" is a fun and playful way of describing skin showing.... and guro has only recently become more mainstream and popular.

I always assume its the colour of blood and meat.
Maybe thats ignorant of me.

But its the root of the word so...
Old English flæsc "flesh, meat, muscular parts of animal bodies; body (as opposed to soul)," also "living creatures," also "near kindred" (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood)
common West and North Germanic (compare Old Frisian flesk, Middle Low German vlees, German Fleisch "flesh," Old Norse flesk "pork, bacon"), which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flaiskjan "piece of meat torn off," from PIE *pleik- "to tear."

BTW
I'm not trying to put anyones opinion by mentioning history and facts.
I'm just amused by facts and I love seeing how words can evolve and be interpreted differently depending on context.

I use "flesh" to describe anything that is, well, fleshy-- like exposed skin or things like tongues or naughty bits--, but I usually only mention it on characters where the color is very specific. And I think a lot of people use it like that too. Flesh fur a furry is often used for exposed skin, or tongues, or genitalia, or their inner meaty bits.

For example for Cato I have his "Flesh" colors (light orange to green gradient) listed on his ref and it refers to his tongue, his genitalia, and, if you were to cut him open, his insides.

I always assume it means the skin/nose/pawpads/inner ear.

Skin? If it was meat, guts, or blood I think they would say "meats, guts, or blood"!

Ive been told before its the naughty parts like nips and ya know girly parts and guy s ya know xD