Drag knows that being a furry isn’t all about sex. It’s mostly about liking cartoon animals. But nonetheless, drag did have a preconception of the furry community being a generally sex-positive space due to all the queer floating around. Drag recently had a bizarre experience in which a community of furries was weirdly particular about a certain dirty joke, which had never been a problem in other online communities. Are furries really sex negative compared to most people?

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      One joke that is apparently risque enough that OP didn’t want to include it in the post?

      Yeah, I’m thinking the furries weren’t the problem

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        The joke is that drag’s username was, until recently, Dragon “Rider”. Because “ride” has multiple meanings. A number of furries said that drag’s username is too bawdy to say, even without quotes.

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          Lol, those specific people are fucking pansies; ignore them, but don’t paint the whole community the same colour as them

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    My general experience has been that furries are people, and people aren’t homogeneous - so even if they share some traits it’s not fair to make blanket assumptions.

    I’m reserving judgment until I hear what the joke is. Not really enough to go on otherwise.

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      Yeah I’m not prudish by any means, but could easily be put off if someone made an inappropriate joke at my expense. It would really be context dependent

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      The joke is that drag’s username was, until recently, Dragon “Rider”. Because “ride” has multiple meanings. A number of furries said that drag’s username is too bawdy to say, even without quotes.

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    I’m not a furry, but was the joke making fun of furries?

    Were the people responding to the joke itself, or were they blindly downvoting you because of your use of a third-person neo-pronoun?

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      The joke is that drag’s username was, until recently, Dragon “Rider”. Because “ride” has multiple meanings. A number of furries said that drag’s username is too bawdy to say, even without quotes.