I didn't think this needed saying...

[bladespark]

...but apparently it does!

This is just a notification. I rather thought anybody who knows me and knows what I do for a living would know this, but I guess not.

So just so you all know. Fursuits are NOT sexual in nature! N, O, T, not. They're worn for a variety of reasons, but more than 90% of the time sex doesn't enter the picture in any way, shape or form.

They're used for charity, they're used to work with children. They're used for fun, and to show off at conventions, and to help you feel like you are your fursona, but they're NOT used to get you turned on, to be sex objects, or to have sex in.

I do not make a living making sex toys, people.

Everyone clear on that? Does anybody need any extra explanations here?

Edit: *sigh* Apparently extra explanations ARE in fact needed. Hello reality! Yes a few furries do regard fursuits as sex items and get turned on by them. Duh. The fandom is full of oversexed young men, it's inevitable. And yes, if you pay me enough I will make a suit you can have sex in.

But that's NOT why I make them! I am not turned on by fursuits. I regard them as art. I find making one into a sex toy to be something of a shame. I'll do it, because I'm mercenary like that, and getting $100 to put a hole in a suit is a pretty sweet deal, but that's not the point!

Do I need to get out the cluebat here?

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

for *some* people, they can be sexual in nature. hell, i can name 2 people (right off the top of my head) who get turned on by suits.

btw, you know one of these people.

Not trying to assume but...

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

I see on your commissions page you mention that " I am not repsonsible for damage caused to suits, or to persons wearing suits, while running, doing acrobatics*, wrestling, yiffing**, or engaging in other energetic activity. Or in other words, if it's my fault, I'll fix it, but if you broke it, it's your problem."

aand the ** footnote reads: "Yes, I make those kind of suits too. They cost extra."

Sadly because you have even a subtle way of saying you do make those kinds of suits, you are going to get some of the fursuitsex crowd (I know that there are not too many fursuiters out there that will make those kind of suits and many of them even state blatently that they wont.) who think its an open invitation to talk to you about all the raunchy things they can do in suit. Also, you may get comments from those that see those statements and make assumptions about what you use your suits for.

Im not saying that these kinds of things are okay. By far, you dont have to put up with this. Still, this might be responsible for whatever has brought you to have to vent today about this.

-Kat

[graydown.livejournal.com]

I wish more people recognized that. But... what prompted this?

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

There is no way you are going to get the General Public to believe this. Only people who have furry friends get it.

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's always the fringe that ruins the image of the rest of the group. I imagine there are quite a few non-yiffy fursuited people out there, but I only seem to hear horror stories about people wearing fursuits with holes cut out in strategic areas who proceed to get a bit X-rated in the middle of a convention. So fursuits aren't innately sexual, but the human mind, ever-focused on reproduction, can bend almost anything into a means of arousal if the appropriate hormones see fit. An otherwise innocuous desire to more closely resemble an animal is no exception.

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Concurrence. And I don't think I'll ever "get" fursuits in general. o_O

[silveradept]

This comes from the mistaken belief that all furries are fursuitsex people, which is an image that needs to be kicked to the curb as soon as possible. But, yeah. Some people will believe whatever they hear, regardless of truth value.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

All I want is for people who KNOW ME to believe this. I was very shocked to find that somebody I regard as a friend, and whom I have known for several years, has the assumption that all fursuits are for sexual purposes. I disabused him of this notion very quickly.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Discussion a specific suit in casual conversation with a friend, who made a comment about how he just can't see how a suit that like one would turn anybody on... and I was all "huh?" And thus I discovered that somebody I have known for YEARS still thought that all fursuits were sexual in nature!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Well sure, for some! But that's not the majority!

Re: Not trying to assume but...

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

No. This person thought that ALL fursuits were for sex. ALL of them. That having fursuit sex was the REASON for buying a fursuit, period.

I quickly corrected this notion.

I don't think he's ever seen my page, he's not furry himself, nor interested.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

*hands you cluebat*

Damn it, i know it's the internet and all, but not everything is about sex!


(personally I would have thought sex in a fursuit would be very hot and sweaty)

I had always assumed most of the suits were for fancy dress, promotions (you know, you get those poor people handing out fliars dressed as ANYTHING), mascots or LARPing.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

true, its not the majority. and it sucks that most people assume that it IS the majority.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

I quite agree with you.

Political Correctness ftw?

[reaverta.livejournal.com]

Hm. "Fursuits" has bad connotations.

You could call yourself an 'animal costume designer'. ;)

Re: Political Correctness ftw?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I do. My site is sparkcostumes.com, my business name is S.Park Costuming

But sometimes "fursuits" is a handy shorthand, so I do still use the term. And I would RATHER that the connotation change. Realistically perhaps not possible, but still...