Furry Panic
It's fun watching the confused comments from the "I shouldn't find this arousing, but..." crowd over this interesting sculpture by artist Tatsuya Horimoto.
I think the problem people have is that everyone has their own internal meter for, "Is it okay to have sex with this thing?"
On a base level, it might be an X on a scale like this:
Human Enough <--------------------------------------------------------------------------> Not Human Enough
There are all sorts of other criteria, such as age, maturity, and the ability to consent, but for most the shape/appearance is the first filter.
I think most would agree that sex with a goat - regardless of how sexy and flirtatious it is - would not be acceptable. But what about a race of intelligent, alien goats who are ready, willing, able and horny? For many, though, there would inevitably be the matter of, "If it looks like a goat, it's a goat."
I think my own check-list would go something like this:
1) Is it interested in sex?
2) Would I want to have sex with it?
3) Is it able to give informed, unambiguous consent?
4) Is it physically possible to engage in sex with it?
A really important criteria is the word informed. Somebody who is drunk enough for their panties to fall off might give unambiguous consent, but it's not necessarily consent they would give if they were sober. Somebody who gives consent might not be old enough, or mentally mature enough to understand the ramifications of their consent.
If we were ever to encounter a race of aliens or inter-dimensional beings who looked like some kind of cat/dog/otter cross in lingerie, and they ticked all four of those items on the list then IMO, go wild.
This artist has a few sculptures he's done based around these creatures. He might not be a furry, but his sculptures sure are.
Our provincial COVID-19 numbers are on a meteoric rise, and our government is dropping the ball really badly. Rather, they dropped the ball awhile ago, and right now they're lifting the turf and kicking it under in the hope that nobody noticed. They had the entire summer to get us ready for the spike that everyone knew would come in the fall, but they did nothing. Our ICUs are running at 92% now, with very little room for expansion since they closed and consolidated a good percent of the ICUs in the province in order to save money.
Rather than spending money over the summer to expand lab services for testing, and add more beds for ICUs, they simply took credit for benefits that were handed down by the federal government and focused their efforts on balancing the budget and quietly sending out tenders to sell off our provincial parks. The worst, though, is their mixed messaging. They refuse to give any teeth to a mask order - indeed, our health minister went on record saying that the anti-mask groups "raise some good points".
To paraphrase a line from The Simpsons: "We tried doing nothing, and now we're out of ideas."
Even with the weak mask orders (only required indoors, and nothing giving businesses any teeth to enforce them), most people here are being good about wearing masks. They're not so good about not packing together in big family groups for Thanksgiving and the like, but at least they mostly wear masks where they're "required" by law.
This has led to a curious problem being faced by a number of places where masks are mandated; discarded masks are becoming a nuisance. When I was walking home from the local butcher shop yesterday, I spotted one in the wild.
I think the problem people have is that everyone has their own internal meter for, "Is it okay to have sex with this thing?"
On a base level, it might be an X on a scale like this:
Human Enough <--------------------------------------------------------------------------> Not Human Enough
There are all sorts of other criteria, such as age, maturity, and the ability to consent, but for most the shape/appearance is the first filter.
I think most would agree that sex with a goat - regardless of how sexy and flirtatious it is - would not be acceptable. But what about a race of intelligent, alien goats who are ready, willing, able and horny? For many, though, there would inevitably be the matter of, "If it looks like a goat, it's a goat."
I think my own check-list would go something like this:
1) Is it interested in sex?
2) Would I want to have sex with it?
3) Is it able to give informed, unambiguous consent?
4) Is it physically possible to engage in sex with it?
A really important criteria is the word informed. Somebody who is drunk enough for their panties to fall off might give unambiguous consent, but it's not necessarily consent they would give if they were sober. Somebody who gives consent might not be old enough, or mentally mature enough to understand the ramifications of their consent.
If we were ever to encounter a race of aliens or inter-dimensional beings who looked like some kind of cat/dog/otter cross in lingerie, and they ticked all four of those items on the list then IMO, go wild.
This artist has a few sculptures he's done based around these creatures. He might not be a furry, but his sculptures sure are.
Our provincial COVID-19 numbers are on a meteoric rise, and our government is dropping the ball really badly. Rather, they dropped the ball awhile ago, and right now they're lifting the turf and kicking it under in the hope that nobody noticed. They had the entire summer to get us ready for the spike that everyone knew would come in the fall, but they did nothing. Our ICUs are running at 92% now, with very little room for expansion since they closed and consolidated a good percent of the ICUs in the province in order to save money.
Rather than spending money over the summer to expand lab services for testing, and add more beds for ICUs, they simply took credit for benefits that were handed down by the federal government and focused their efforts on balancing the budget and quietly sending out tenders to sell off our provincial parks. The worst, though, is their mixed messaging. They refuse to give any teeth to a mask order - indeed, our health minister went on record saying that the anti-mask groups "raise some good points".
To paraphrase a line from The Simpsons: "We tried doing nothing, and now we're out of ideas."
Even with the weak mask orders (only required indoors, and nothing giving businesses any teeth to enforce them), most people here are being good about wearing masks. They're not so good about not packing together in big family groups for Thanksgiving and the like, but at least they mostly wear masks where they're "required" by law.
This has led to a curious problem being faced by a number of places where masks are mandated; discarded masks are becoming a nuisance. When I was walking home from the local butcher shop yesterday, I spotted one in the wild.