Why do many straight furries turn gay after being inside the furry fandom?

Question

Like 50 or 60% of the furries who claim to be straight that spend at least a few months or a few years inside the furry community turn gay or bisexual over time. You see on there profiles/journals that they're lonely and they don't have a girlfriend yet and then some time later on they end up in a relationship with a guy or wanting to marry a guy inside the furry community or some kind of pretend internet relationship with other fursonas/furries where they'll claim their fursona is bi and draw gay porn of their fursonas and they'll start re-labeling their IRL sexuality to gay, pan, or bisexual. How can somebody go from liking women to not liking any women just for liking cartoon characters and being in the community? I hear/see so many instances where they say stuff like "I used to be straight, but then I turned gay", something about it being a lifestyle choice, even something like "I wish I was gay", or that being gay in the furry fandom was a choice they made over a period of time. It seems to me like they're so desperate and sexual that they lower their standards, because a lot of them are socially inept and they figure guys are easier to get than girls and it satisfies their fetishes and stuff? It seems like the whole gay thing is a trend inside the furry community and all the straight people probably feel left out or they get peer pressured and involved so they become like the other LGBT furries? It just seems like the furry fandom focuses so much on sexuality/fetishes.

Answer 1

Straight Furries

Answer 2

I'm not sure you can go by just some furry fandom profiles. We don't know how their sexual orientation was before. If they did in fact have a change. If they follow through with that change. I would say it's not as it seems to you.

Answer 3

Let's see...roughly ZERO. Nobody can change their sexual orientation. It is an inborn trait built into the wiring of their brain.



I don't know where you're reading those profiles and you're just pulling that "50 or 60%" out of your äss, but clearly you really don't know anything about furries and have spent no time getting to know the fandom. If someone who formerly seemed straight reveals him/herself to be gay sometime later, it has nothing to do with being a furry or anything else. It has to do with realizing one's true feelings and attraction, accepting and coming to terms with it, and feeling comfortable and confident to open up and tell others. Formerly the person claimed or believed oneself to be straight because of the social pressures and fears that they grew up with telling them they must be nothing but straight, resulting in that person denying their true orientation to oneself.



The furry fandom is incredibly diverse, open, and accepting to all people of all demographics including all sexual orientations. People who are GLBT can very freely be out and open about themselves with no need to hide it. When someone who is closeted GLBT joins the fandom, that person sees everyone else of whatever orientation or gender identity very freely and comfortably being open about oneself. A gay person doesn't have to hide being gay and same-sex couples don't have to hide the fact they are a couple in love. They show very clearly that gay individuals and couples are friendly, fun, loving, and accepted, and all that can inspire even the most closeted non-heterosexual person to accept his/her orientation, be proud of it, and come out to the world without fear. While the furry fandom has nothing to do with sexual orientation or GLBT pride, it has everything to do with freedom, free expression, personal liberty, pride to be just who you are, and acceptance of one another as equals.



That's probably why you see some individuals join the furry fandom and then come out as gay later. That person was always gay; he/she just learned to love and be proud of his/her true self and stop fearing it by being inspired by this really awesome furry fandom.

Answer 4

This doesn't match my experience within the community. Virtually all of us are gay males and relatively few of the straight furs are adventurous enough to try some gay sex and almost always go back or leave the fandom when they realize it isn't for them.

Answer 5

They don't, you can't change your sexual Orientation, not all of us are Gay and Male.

Answer 6

Please explain what you mean by "furry fandom".