Editing Furry fandom (section)

==Sexuality==
{{see also|Yiff}}
According to four different surveys, 14–25% of the fandom members report homosexuality, 37–52% bisexuality, 28–39% heterosexuality, and 3–8% other forms of alternative sexual relationships.<ref name="SecondSurvey" /><ref name="Evans" /><ref name="FirstSurvey">{{cite web|url=http://www.furcenter.org/pubs/SF_2008.pdf|title=State of the Fandom|date=June 27, 2008|work=Furry Research Center|author=Alex Osaki|access-date=March 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223529/http://www.furcenter.org/pubs/SF_2008.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gerbasi-winter-2011" /> Approximately half of the respondents reported being in a relationship, of which 76% were in a relationship with another member of the furry fandom.<ref name="SecondSurvey">{{cite web|url=http://studyf3.livejournal.com/1383.html|title=Furry Survey Results|author=University of California, Davis Department of Psychology|date=May 5, 2007|access-date=2007-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727123232/http://studyf3.livejournal.com/1383.html|archive-date=July 27, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Examples of sexual aspects within the furry fandom include erotic art and furry-themed [[cybersex]].<ref name="Indiana">Bardzell, Jeffery, and [[Shaowen Bardzell]]. ''Sex-Interface-Aesthetics: The Docile Avatars and Embodied Pixels of'' Second Life ''BDSM''. [[Indiana University]], 2005.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3016114.ece|title=I like dressing up as a bear during sex|work=[[The Times]]|author1=Stuttaford, Thomas|author-link=Thomas Stuttaford|author2=Godson, Suzi|author2-link=Suzi Godson|date=December 8, 2007|access-date=2007-12-11|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615180141/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3016114.ece|archive-date=June 15, 2011|url-status=dead}} ([[WikiFur:I like dressing up as a bear during sex|further details]])</ref> The term "[[wikt:yiff|yiff]]" is sometimes used to indicate sexual activity or sexual material within the fandom—this applies to sexual activity and interaction within the subculture whether in the form of cybersex or [[Online and offline|offline]].<ref name="AnimalPassions">{{cite news|first=Melissa|last=Meinzer|url=http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28606|title=Animal Passions: The furries come to town—and our correspondent tails along|work=[[Pittsburgh City Paper]]|date=June 29, 2006|access-date=2007-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827170632/http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28606|archive-date=August 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Padva">{{cite journal | last1 = Padva | first1 = Gilad | year = 2005 | title = Dreamboys, Meatmen and Werewolves: Visualizing Erotic Identities in All-Male Comic Strips | journal = Sexualities | volume = 8 | issue = 5| pages = 587–99 | doi = 10.1177/1363460705058395 | s2cid = 143653150 }}</ref>

In one survey with 4,300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% responded that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities.<ref name="Gerbasi-winter-2011">{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/past-results/international-online-furry-survey-2011|title=International Online Furry Survey: Winter 2011|author=Gerbasi|year=2011|access-date=2012-09-01|display-authors=etal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308185939/https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/past-results/international-online-furry-survey-2011|archive-date=2013-03-08|url-status=live}}</ref> In an earlier online survey, 33% of furry respondents answered that they have a "significant sexual interest in furry", another 46% stated they have a "minor sexual interest in furry", and the remaining 21% stated they have a "non-sexual interest in furry". The survey specifically avoided adult-oriented websites to prevent bias.<ref name="Evans">{{cite web|url=http://cannedgeek.com/images/sharedfiles/fss_report_finaldraft.PDF|title=The Furry Sociological Survey|year=2008|author=Kyle Evans|access-date=2012-09-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904201818/http://www.cannedgeek.com/images/sharedfiles/fss_report_finaldraft.PDF|archive-date=2013-09-04}}</ref>

Another survey at a furry convention in 2013 found that 96.3% of male furry respondents reported viewing furry pornography, compared with 78.3% of females; males estimated that 50.9% of all furry art they view is pornographic, compared with 30.7% of females. The respondents to the survey had a slight preference for pornographic furry artwork over non-pornographic artwork. 17.1% of males reported that when they viewed pornography it was exclusively or near-exclusively furry pornography, and about 5% reported that pornography was the top factor that got them into the fandom.<ref name="Fiesta2013">Plante, C. N., Reysen, S., Roberts, S. E., & Gerbasi, K. C. (2013). International Anthropomorphic Research Project: Furry Fiesta 2013 Summary</ref>

A survey conducted from 1997 to 1998 reported about 2% of furry respondents stating an interest in [[zoophilia]], and less than 1% an interest in [[plushophilia]] (sexually aroused by stuffed animal toys). The older, lower results, which are even lower than estimated in the general population, were due to the methodology of questioning respondents face-to-face, which led to [[social desirability bias]].<ref name="FirstSurvey">{{cite web|url=http://www.furcenter.org/pubs/SF_2008.pdf|title=State of the Fandom|date=June 27, 2008|work=Furry Research Center|author=Alex Osaki|access-date=March 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223529/http://www.furcenter.org/pubs/SF_2008.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/animal-magnetism-inside-the-world-of-the-furries/|title=Animal magnetism: Inside the world of the furries|author=Griffiths, Mark|date=2012-04-05|access-date=2012-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728095943/http://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/animal-magnetism-inside-the-world-of-the-furries/|archive-date=2012-07-28|url-status=live}}</ref> In contrast, one comparative study from 1974 and 1980 showed 7.5% of sampled students at [[University of Northern Iowa]] reporting zoophilia,<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Story | first1 = MD | year = 1982 | title = A comparison of university student experience with various sexual outlets in 1974 and 1980 | journal = Adolescence | volume = 17 | issue = 68| pages = 737–47 | pmid = 7164870 }}</ref> while other studies find only 2.2%<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Joyal | first1 = C. C. | last2 = Cossette | first2 = A. | last3 = Lapierre | first3 = V. | year = 2014 | title = What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy? | journal = The Journal of Sexual Medicine | volume = 12 | issue = 2| pages = 328–340 | doi = 10.1111/jsm.12734 | pmid = 25359122 }}</ref> to 5.3%<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Crépault | first1 = Claude | last2 = Couture | first2 = Marcel | year = 1980 | title = Men's erotic fantasies | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 9 | issue = 6| pages = 565–81 | doi = 10.1007/BF01542159 | pmid = 7458662 | s2cid = 9021936 }}</ref> expressing fantasies of sex with animals. An anonymous survey in 2008 found 17% of respondents identified as zoophiles and it stated that most furries had a more moderate view of zoophilia. The study had 5,000 participants with 22.6% of them having an extremely negative view of zoophilia, 23% negative view, 36.3%  ambivalent, 13.5% positive view, and 4.5% had an extremely positive view of it.<ref name="FirstSurvey" /> In 2013 Adjectivespecies tried to increase awareness about zoophiles and stated that they are part of the furry community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Guerrier|first=Jacqueline Daniell|date=2014|title=Bringing out the animal in me: An examination of art and the individual within the Furry subculture|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/153207931.pdf|website=Honors College at [[James Madison University|JMU]] Scholarly Commons}}</ref> However more recent sources have stated that both [[bestiality]] and zoophilia are considered taboo in the furry fandom.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Strike|first=Joe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QJuDwAAQBAJ&q=Furry+fandom+zoophile|title=Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture|date=2017-10-03|publisher=Cleis Press|isbn=978-1-62778-233-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=anth_awards</ref>{{rp|page=6}} There have also been discussions in the fandom about distinguishing art of anthromomorphized animals from art of bestiality.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Reysen|first1=Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15cqEAAAQBAJ&dq=furry+fandom+all+ages&pg=PA67|title=Transported to Another World: The Psychology of Anime Fans|last2=Plante|first2=Courtney N.|last3=Chadborn|first3=Daniel|last4=Roberts|first4=Sharon E.|last5=Gerbasi|first5=Kathleen C.|date=2021-04-19|publisher=Stephen Reysen|isbn=978-0-9976288-1-4|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|page=67}}