I totally agree with this. I experienced this myself first hand. I denied my feelings for female dogs for many, many years, and suffered depression because of it. Just do as some of the others have said. Forget everything society says, as society doesn't know jack. Society thinks it knows what's best for everyone, when it knows what's best for no one. And any credible shrink will tell you that your feelings are perfectly normal. Many psycho doctors (psychiatrists) classify this as a sexual orientation. Although, I am sure they would try to connect these feelings with something from your childhood, just like everything.

But anyway, yeah. Follow your heart. It knows what's the best for you. Don't ignore it or you will be in worse shape.

I was like you not too long ago. Id start to look at something zoo and then be like "OMG what am I doing" and immediately close it. Afterwards i would feel guilty. Then i started to analyze whether I felt guilty because I thought it was wrong or because I knew others and society as a whole deemed it wrong. When I realized that it was ok with me and finally accepted it I was a much happier person ^_^ So no, you are definately not alone on this one. Welcome and congrats. Also I understand what you mean about your dog, I feel the same way :)

hey there...welcome to the forum.
I guess I can consider myself one of the lucky ones...I never really had an experience like that. I know it was because of my parents, both were extremely independent minded and taught me I didn't need to go along with things just because society said I should. It allowed me to grow up in such a way that I embraced not being afraid to be different when I wanted to...not just because I wanted to be different...When I eventually discovered my zoo tendencies I was never really troubled by it and just accepted that it was just part of who I was.

Well for myself, once I got the idea in my head I was just the opposite. I couldn't seek out and indulge in any info, educational or sexual, fast enough. Of course those were in the most infantile days of the internet so there were few to no online sources of info. As a result a spent a lot of time skulking special collections libraries, amongst other resources.

Yes I know what you are saying, I felt like there was something wrong with me and I was the only one like this in the world,I,m still not sure that it is right or not. I still want to keep it to myself.

Ya I had the same issues coming into this lifestyle it started a whole self discovey thing that helped me find out who I am.

I felt very guilty of my feelings and desires all throughout high school even though somtimes I would act on my desires and then afterward feel very ashamed. Since then though, I have shed the guilt and leanred to accept my feelings for what they are.... my feelings.

Admitting to myself that I like something has never been a problem for me, no matter how weird society thinks it is.. Keep this in mind, you dont need to tell society every deep desire you have, or any in that matter. Just be yourself and love it B)

I think most people approach this sort of thing with apprehension. Its so villianized in society that people just feel wrong even looking at it. But eventually people get over that and just dont care anymore! Like me!

I searhced all over for a very long time to find a forum like this.
I love me some beasty peoples. :heart:

Sharpie443,
Be true to yourself.

Your female shepard may be a closet lover too, don't force her, let her explore you.

I found out about my golden retriever chow mix this way. I sleep a la natural and have for years, she decided I needed licked and that was the beginning of a great love affair.

Best wishes and Welcome to the forum family.

I never exactly had that problem, I admitted to myself that I'm different and I told myself that it's okay to be different. I believe everyone IS in fact different and no one can matter-of-factly say to your face that you're weird without being some form of hypocrit.

The hardest part I had was coming to terms with actually telling my friends and loved ones about how I feel. They all accepted it rather well, and that's when I felt free. I feel after you admit to yourself, and sharing your feelings with someone trusted, you too will feel better about your preferences.

I can understand exactly where you are comming form. And I wish you luck on your own journey.

Having been raised in a strict Catholic family, and attending an all boys Catholic school, I have a whole mess of sexual hang-ups. I don't feel that I relate to women very well. During my teenage years, when I most needed to be around girls my own age, I was stuck in a single sex school, and didn't partake of any extracurricular activities that were co-ed. Having always been a very shy person, the net result is that women scare me. My dating life has been just about non-existent. I never learned the social skills that seem to be for others as easy as breathing.

Along with the rather more common guilt associated with masturbating, looking at porn, strip clubs, sex shops, and so on that most religions seem to have as part of the fundamental doctrines. It's funny how the path to happiness in the afterlife seems to involve denying or unnaturally controling most forms of pleasure avaliable to us.

Thank God I'm an atheist. ;)

And a zoo as well. I've had an attraction to animals since puberty. I didn't understand it for a very long time. I spent quite a while believing it was just a phase, or simply a reaction to being so completely desperate. I haven't had the chance really explore this side of my sexuality. But ever since discovering the internet (I think it was the infamous "dolphin sex" site that really opened my eyes) I have started to become comfortable with these feelings.

I still hold out a (slim) hope of finding that "special someone". But I'll bet that it's probably going to be up to her to make the first move. (Is that still a taboo in this modern age?)

I've never cared about what society thinks. My total failure to "fit in" at school cured me of that a long time ago. As far as I am concerned, what society doesn't know, can't hurt me. :P

Go ahead and take the plunge, but Just remember once you try it, you wont want to quit. The biggest problem is having to keep it to your self.

I feel guilty sometimes. I think that is why I do it though. Is it possible to like guilt?