I think I mentioned it in here before, in the 90s, zoos hated furries, because they were 'wannabes', in essence. There were crossover, but the hardcore like Spink mostly thought furry was a lame substitute for the Real Thing.My biggest issue is, iirc, spink wasn't a furry himself. Though it wouldn't surprise me if that was a lie, or he was using furry communities to find other zoos?
I think I mentioned it in here before, in the 90s, zoos hated furries, because they were 'wannabes', in essence. There were crossover, but the hardcore like Spink mostly thought furry was a lame substitute for the Real Thing.
I remember seeing Actaeon around way back when. He was one of the ones who DID cross over. Without going into string board detail, I don't think he's one of Spink's IDs.



I imagine (and I am speculating wildly here) it's partially overexposure to pornography (the hedonic treadmill), principally in adolescence before one's fetishes "set", and echo chambers (i.e. lack of critical feedback). Don't underestimate your ability to start liking whatever it is you are thinking of when you happen to have an orgasm, especially if you reinforce it later (psychiatrist Park Dietz, who is quoted extensively in Brian Masters' excellent biography of Jeffrey Dahmer, believes that lurid detective magazines featuring combined nudity and violence created multiple serial killers: Ted Bundy explicitly says that looking at these covers is where he got his start. Dietz actually suggested a media rule, which naturally went nowhere, that no sex scene in a movie transpire within a certain time period of violence to stop young people unconsciously linking the two). Autistic people commonly like and understand animals more than people -- they have basic needs that are easy to interpret, compared to the vast complexity of human motivation, and they don't have the capacity to reject you. They also like animation because of the easy-to-read facial expressions and unlifelike simplicity of plot and character: so perhaps there is a chain of depravity in some people from liking Sonic to wanting to fuck the real thing if common sense or the end of adolescence's relative plasticity of preferences doesn't rein it in. In any event, autistic people certainly have trouble unconsciously internalizing social programming, making them highly susceptible to taking up bizarre subcultures they are exposed to.Certain autistic people always have the most odd forms of sexual expression that I have ever seen. Where are all these spergs coming from all of the sudden anyways? Is it the pesticides, agent orange, GMO, the chemicals in the drinking water? Or have they always been there,and now we can detect it? Where in their sexual development has it gone wrong? Ive heard with pedophiles they have an irregularity in their physical brain development that registers sexual attraction in the wrong manner. But have they done these type of studies on zoophiles? Is there a common ancestoral link and the fact the vast majority of these people have some sort of disorder that places them on the spectrum?
(apologies for replying to an old message)Here's Spink's talk at HOPE




