I got a question
4 years ago
General
If you draw you're adult anthro characters anatomically correct including genitals would that make you a Zoophile by association or something?
I know what Zoophile is but I just saw a video where it talks about drawing of nsfw animal and a furry artist, accused of zoophilia
So I end up questioning my own nsfw art.
I know what Zoophile is but I just saw a video where it talks about drawing of nsfw animal and a furry artist, accused of zoophilia
So I end up questioning my own nsfw art.
FA+


But I think you should be good
Your toony style also puts another layer of separation between your art and such things.
The point is, no matter how much you alter your style or your content to please others, someone will always find fault in it, and the only way you'll avoid scrutiny altogether is to quit, which would be a tragedy
Also, 'modesty' not 'modestly'. Grr, stupid typo.
Foremost, I do not go out of my way to find this kind of art or most NSFW art because I don't care about NSFW art and I keep filters on so I don't have to see pornography constantly. I turn the filters off when I come across a new artist who's art style I like. If they have relatively little or no porn I will add them to my watch list, as I generally don't want to be associated with porn. (There are a few exceptions to this as I really like an artists art style.) However, the times that I have come across art of characters that have anatomically correct genetalia for that species? I do become suspicious of the person, but I won't just immediately call them a Zoophile. It requires more context than just genetalia. I run by the rule of if the characters involved are of human level Sentience, Cognition AND Anthropomorphic in the sense of they stand upright like humans, then it is fine.
- If the character (s) meet these things and have human genetalia, I have no suspicion.
- If the character (s) meet these things but has anatomically correct genetalia, I won't call the people involved zoophiles but it is certainly... odd.
- If the character (s) are anthropomorphic and not at human level Sentience or Cognition, regardless of what genetalia type is used I will be suspicious.
- If the character (s) are feral and anatomically correct, I become very suspicious and just leave the profile immediately.
- If the character (s) are feral and anatomically correct but have human level Sentience and Cognition, I still become very suspicious and generally leave the profile immediately.
- If the character (s) are feral and have human genetalia ( I will be confused ) and I will be fairly suspicious and will generally leave immediately.
I make a bit of an exception for male genetalia as male human genetalia on just about any character looks rather bad and out of place. So a mix of somewhere between human, and species correct is fine.
In the end, use what you want to use but understand that everyone has different views. If you use anatomically correct stuff you will inevitably make some number of people think of you differently. Do I personally think of you differently because of what you use? Not really, I dont even look at your NSFW stuff and you don't exhibit Zoophile tendencies from what I have seen. Not to get into politics but seeing as though most furries seem to be on the same political side and overwhelmingly accepting of most stuff? You likely won't catch much Flak, I would advise to stay away from using anatomically correct bits but again use what you want.
Have a great day ~ M.W.
What are these design choices you mean?
But I think with how you've designed your anthro characters I think you'll be mostly fine. It's very stylized to the point it doesn't fully resemble an actual feral animal. So you could pretty much do whatever with their genital design. Heck you can create your own design of one for them if you like.
People who use this logic also think video games and video nasties create shooters and mass murderers in real life, they are utter idiots.
It is all pretend.
Also I'd classify beastiality as involving sex between a human and an animal without sapience. At least that's what creates the issues with beastiality and consent. So If you're just talking about the pure physicality of 'fantasy body/character building' I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that furries with animal penis's are equivalent. If you feel that way then you'd have to consider any sort of sexual protrayal of any character with any animal trait as beastiality, and the same would then go for aliens and anything Kirk boned in Star Trek.
Beyond that I think that A) most people would want a horse's junk (including a lot of women) if given the chance, for purely asthetic reasons, and the canine knot kind of creates its own sexual situations that furries seem to have fun with, and B) no one really cares, I think, unless they have a problem with sex, or furries in general. If they did care about beastiality I think they'd be better off condemning actual zoophiles in the fandom. But it's sort of a moot point to go after fantastical hybrid art unless you're just looking for an excuse to hate furries, which are always going to include an adult, sexual, animal element to them.