Maybe you’ve always felt an inexplicable affinity with Tony the Tiger. Maybe you really liked drawing wolves during eighth-grade homeroom. While there is a contingent of furries who do derive sexual pleasure from the subculture, the fanbase is much more broad than that. Like most subcultures, the furry fandom is a largely internet-driven phenomenon, providing a label for a pre-existing feeling that has always lived, dormant and unnamed, inside a select number of people. The mainstream media has historically painted furries as sex-crazed, socially maladjusted freaks who enjoy rubbing up against each other in giant bunny costumes.
