abadbird said:

porn virus

Actually, at that time when "porn virus" was more relevant (let's say pre-2008?), many questionable sites did infect visitors with malware, and not just cookies that trip malware scans either. At least, that was my experience. I used to download various cracked programs through such sites and over Kazaa and Bearshare, and then I would scan my computer with Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D to see what kind of trouble I found. I was excited when I finally caught a dialer, and there was also a dropper trojan that meant business. I didn't visit porn sites often at the time because they when crappy, but when I did I usually caught a "browser exploit" immediately. Nowadays, you really have to go out of your way, off the beaten path, to get infected (or torrent a cracked program with a non-false positive infection).

As for the OP, I've answered similar questions before. I suppose I acknowledged a preference for furries sometime after I started visiting e621 for porn. I was more or less neutral or undecided how I liked furry porn before then but after becoming aware of them. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that I prefer furry porn to (drawn) human or real porn, even though real porn is more potent.

Somehow, real and human porn seem hollow and grimy. They are all too often devoid of meaning, leaving me feeling empty and unsatisfied (read: hollow). And, when I use human or real porn, there's some crushing disappointment that gnaws at the edges of my awareness, reminding me how basic or dispassionate people seem when fucking, which taints the whole viewing experience for me (read: grimy). I'm still puzzling that second part out, though.

Furry porn, on the other hand, can provide idealized and interesting canvases to build fantasies around, which rather appeals to me. Increasingly, I have been devising simple, self-insert stories around certain pictures that strike me as fertile scenarios, managing the dialogue and progression to my tastes. Those are among my most enjoyable experiences with porn because they flood my mind with that heady arousal I'm always chasing. That aside, furry porn broadens one's horizons with occasional interesting or exciting possibilities. In contrast, human and real porn rarely stimulate such intrigue.

Thus, given my roundabout explanation, it was after I realized those things to some small extent that I could validate my preference and attraction to furryverse creatures.

This pretty much sums up my feelings toward real porn against furry porn. Though I think I'll enjoy it at the time, real porn always leaves me feeling stressed and unsatisfied..

I was about 9 years old when I discovered it. The arcade game Dig Dug had just come out and I was attracted to Fygar, the dragon in the game.

InannaEloah said:
I was about 9 years old when I discovered it. The arcade game Dig Dug had just come out and I was attracted to Fygar, the dragon in the game.

Did that game by chance give you a fetish for inflation?

Mighyenta said:
Did that game by chance give you a fetish for inflation?

Yeah, to an extent. Though in my case the inflation fetish is centered around the nonconsensual aspect and the violence implied.

A 6 month old thread
- That got necro'd after 3 months of it being dead
- People questioned why it was necro'd

3 months after last necro
- It gets necro'd again
- People will question why it got necro'd

How do you guys even find these threads? Unless you posted in the original how do you even know it existed? Did you just carve through 100's of pages of forum threads?

Cynosure said:
A 6 month old thread
- That got necro'd after 3 months of it being dead
- People questioned why it was necro'd

3 months after last necro
- It gets necro'd again
- People will question why it got necro'd

How do you guys even find these threads? Unless you posted in the original how do you even know it existed? Did you just carve through 100's of pages of forum threads?

that's the same line of thought that goes through my head whenever someone necro's an ancient comment on youtube or some other site. or if it's a necro that only serves to continue a long dead and buried fuss about something it's more of a "why the heck are you trying to continue a weeks or months old argument that everyone has moved on from?"

had the latter of those 2 happen here before too.

Cynosure said:
How do you guys even find these threads? Unless you posted in the original how do you even know it existed? Did you just carve through 100's of pages of forum threads?

I'm sure the second necro happened because in a current thread I linked back to my post in this thread (#3; rather than waste time repeating myself) that was quoted in the second necro. The cross-posting thickens.

Cynosure said:
A 6 month old thread
- That got necro'd after 3 months of it being dead
- People questioned why it was necro'd

3 months after last necro
- It gets necro'd again
- People will question why it got necro'd

How do you guys even find these threads? Unless you posted in the original how do you even know it existed? Did you just carve through 100's of pages of forum threads?

I'll take the blame here. Silly that I didn't even know what necroing was/the fact that e621 had a policy on it when I posted this. Won't happen again.

Copying and pasting from the other forum post which centres around, like, the same topic:

Cartoon Network, Fanfiction.net and then some curious Google searches that lead me here to e6 back in like 2012. Only got an account here this year. Fun fact: I only discovered FurAffinity last year. And apparently FA is a first site for many people. Not me! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sonic the Pervert, among other Newgrounds flash porn games. Frank's Adventure honorable mention.
I worked my ass off to unlock all the gallery images in each game.

Then I realized I could just find porn elsewhere, without having to play a game to earn it.

HsTheBraixen said:
I'll take the blame here. Silly that I didn't even know what necroing was/the fact that e621 had a policy on it when I posted this.

That's not actually a thing here. We have no rules against 'necroposting'. If you have something to contribute, feel free to bump the old threads. Just make sure that what you post is relevant.

...it's better than rehashing the same topics in separate threads every few months.

Before the internet I used to draw stuff, for my own... Enjoyment and I found it more exotic replacing human faces and legs etc with various degrees of anthropomorphism. I could get away with more situations. That was long before the internet.

Genjar said:
That's not actually a thing here. We have no rules against 'necroposting'. If you have something to contribute, feel free to bump the old threads. Just make sure that what you post is relevant.

...it's better than rehashing the same topics in separate threads every few months.

Had misread one of the rules. My bad. Thank you for the response as well.

I owe that little discovery to Krystal. It happened back when Starfox Adventures was first released, I was 14 at the time.

Got Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for my 9th birthday in 2001. I had no idea what it was at the time, but something really drew me to Rouge.

Fast forward to my 10th birthday and I got Soul Calibur II that year. By then I had learned the whole birds and the bees thing and was humping my first pillows to orgasm over the Ivy and Taki concept art unlocked in that game. Especially Ivy. Something about the busty bad-girl with white hair made her my favorite. I connected the dots with Rouge and started routinely nutting to her concept art, jiggle physics in-game, etc. lol I basically used games exclusively for masturbation from 01-04.

Around the time I got Starfox: Assault in 2005, me and a buddy who was younger than me rented it for about 4 days. Day 1 was playing the game. Day 2 was finding out he already liked girls and thought Krystal was hot. Days 3-4 were a friday and saturday. Friday night, I introduced my friend to masturbation. He already knew how sex worked but didn't know what orgasms were. So in my most proud sensei moment, I showed him my pillow technique from when I was his age, and he had his first nut while Starfox: Assault idled on the TV. We had a lot of privacy at his house, so we basically fucked our pillows until we passed out. Around 11am Saturday morning, I awoke to sound of him answering the door to one of our other friends who came over after hearing we rented a new game. Thus, we gained another fapping partner after my younger friend excitedly explained everything we did the night before, whipping his dick out to demonstrate.

I exposed all of my dude friends to it eventually, (some didn't care for it as much as others) and they were in higher income homes, and had access to internet. Around this time, internet was pretty slow and very little porn was free. So by around 2006, spurred on by multiple sleepovers and gaming marathons that ground to a halt so we could jerk it incessantly to Rouge and Krystal, we went online to discover a bounty of fanart. We also learned exactly what to type in next time we had a circle jerk: "Furry Hentai"

It started for me around my late teens in 2010. I mostly ended up looking through mlp pornography, because at that point I was most avidly involved in the brony community. Each time I searched, I'd see as the top result, "/e621". The name made me kind of wary, since it seemed like a pretty random and obscure name. But as you can tell, one day I was using my tablet, and decided to finally see what the deal with this site was.

AND THEN BAM, ALL I SAW WAS BLUE AND TONS OF FURRY TITS AND ASS IN MY FACE!

And that's how I ended up where I am today. Going through college AGAIN to learn about nprogramming for a game I probably won't even finish a demo for, while still wanting to improve my drawing skills but never trying...

First I was searching for dragons and I found e621. Then I saw that this is mostly furry site. But still dragons are best for me.

I found out I liked anthropomorphic styles when I was 15. Hard to believe it was that long ago. As for sexual attraction, I like my furries like I like humans, in that sex is a deal-breaker for them. Ace and sex-repulsed.

3 years in the past. 2019 was when I saw anthro lizards

basedanon said:
So, when/how did you first discover you were sexually attracted to anthropomorphic animals?

For me it was when I was teenager ... back in the 80s. My first interests were some characters of Disney and later Don Bluth's movies. The interest was sexual, I don't deny it... but it was also something that I would describe also as "romantic". It was something so potent that I cannot describe it properly right know. Something that in some moments oppressed my chest, full of emotion and foreboding. Like a door to some other dimension had been opened.

I didn't know about the existence of a "Furry fandom" or "furry art" until well entered the 90s. The view of more explicit furry art was more like a... confirmation of something. But the emotions where not so intense as before. Anyways, I do enjoy explicit furry art... but right now, is much more like an "esthetic appreciation". Seldom do I feel something like sexual arousal with it anymore.