Smut Meme ganked from Usagi!

[insanepurin]

Whether you see online roleplay an extension of yourself and your own personality, or a fun writing exercise where literally anything goes, everyone has different comfort levels, kinks, and interests. But all we really care about is the smut.

Mark the things you have roleplayed with ‘x’, then: italicize the things you haven’t roleplayed, but might

Comments

[simonbob]

Well, I'm not a specialist or anything, but I believe the argument goes that bestiality refers to non-consentual animal physicality, whereas zoophilia is a mutual cross-species attraction and relationship. "No really, my dog wants to marry me!"

Where it falls apart in reality is that animals really aren't that complicated -- it doesn't take a genius to see that your cat only loves you for the tuna -- but in fiction, where dating every tomcat, moby dick, and hairy-bellied multiplanar demigod (who happens to take the form of a unicorn when he's on our planet) is a reasonable proposition, the distinction comes in handy from time to time.

As for furries, the problem is that the definition is way too broad to really get anything meaningful from it. What if you're writing werewolf slash, or if one character is an animal in a human body? There's no good place to draw the line. Still, it's fun to say something like "don't furries just have sex with animals?" and then watch as they come a-runnin' from every corner of the internets to defend themselves from those spurious allegations! :D