Given the prevalence of negative stereotypes about furries (e.g., association with sexual deviance, presumption that the fandom is a fetish), the issue of pornography is a controversial one in the fandom. We began by assessing the frequency with which furries view pornography. Furry men were significantly more likely to view furry-themed pornography (96.3%) than furry women (78.3%). Furry men and women both significantly underestimated these figures (84% and 70%, respectively)1.
We also assessed other aspects of pornography use, summarized in the table below (all differences between men and women were significantly different from one another).2
Items Assessing Other Aspects of Furry Pornography Use
| Question | Response |
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What percentage of the furry art that you view is pornographic? |
Men: 50.9% Women: 30.7% |
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What percentage of the furry art that you own is pornographic? |
Men: 20.9% Women: 8.7% |
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When you roleplay online, what percent of the time is it sexual? |
Men: 34.0% Women: 21.4% |
| In the last month, how often did you view pornography? |
Men: 43.5 times Women: 10.5 times |
I believe that the usage of furry porn inside the fandom is not a particular problem but the degree to which you can find it. To this day you can find nsfw content on almost any furry-related art site.
I’ve been hoping and trying to push the separation of pornographic art pieces from the ‘main fandom’ per se. Like making FurAffinity a clean site (which I would love to see) and other major furry-related sites clean and have (the site that starts with ‘e’ not sure if I’m allowed to say it) keep all the pornographic images like how it operates for things like anime and hentai where you do not see hentai everywhere you see anime. If this could be accomplished I would be greatly appreciative of the fandom and I’m sure that the fandom’s overall image would improve tenfold because I know porn is not the only reason to be a part of this. At least, it isn’t for me.
Rare gjyg W??? Btw what up gjyg, I haven’t seen you on imgflip since we argued about the moralities of Yiff.
Why did you argue about yiffing… just why?
According to e621’s stats … pornography/explicit (c. 59%*) and suggestive/questionable (c. 18%*) content (c. 77%* combined) are far more popular than non-pornographic/safe content (c. 23%*).
And it’s important to mention that many explicit comics/sequences have/starts with images that’s counted as safe, so number of images that are “fully” non-pornographic is even lower.
*Deleted artworks are also counted in those percentages.
Got it. Thanks! e621 has a very cool, and very robust dataset–they have fans at Furscience because of it 🙂 Any data scientist skilled with modeling large datasets with hundreds of variables could have a field day with it, too. That being said, Furscience primarily looks at behavioural/self-report variables, rather than content analysis, so we’re not likely to use their dataset, but there are others who could definitely could build a career pouring through their mountain of data!
There is one small link between them, even if there’s 11 year gap;
Furry pornography view by furry men in 2013 (c. 51%) and pornography/explicit content at e621 in 2024 (c. 59%) are around 8 percentage points from one another.