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Sensationalists conflate (intentionally confuse) fringe sexual practices all the time.

The public (and to a lesser degree, the press) still confuses h0m0sexuality with pedophilia, despite the fact that these two populations have far less overlap than heterosexuality and pedophilia, or family members and pedophilia.

I'm sure that all sexual [SPAM] have some overlap, but I don't think that that's particularly significant.

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i did not understand...stupid me XD

No, I can't say I've had such fantasies, and I hate generalizations. My biggest pet peeve is those who generalize and prejudge me or people I know. Prejudice is the lowest form of discrimination, because you're judging someone whose name you may not even know.

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PROMEMORIA

03/06/2008

VOTE TOTAL 52

21 YES = 40%
31 NOT = 60%

What interests me is how often or rarely someone with some highly fringe sexual practices is just as ready to condem other equaly fringe sexual practices.

If all the people are consenting adults, and there is no blatant animal cruelty or other laws being violated I think it should be legal.(with an exception for things like consentual canibalistic murders and the like)

I can't say that there seems to be a strong overlap between those to practices that I have seen in online fiction. The overlap that exists could well be accounted for by writers trying to break as many taboo's as possible.

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Very true.

That's the society of humankind in general, though...there is very much a mindset of "well this is ok because I'm doing it, but I don't do what you're doing, so I'm right and you're wrong". Hence, people get mislabeled or wrongly assumed about.

That's what offends people, I think. It can be on any topic, not just sexual, but lifestyle choices (especially ones involving sex) tend to be looked at as being the most "taboo", and thus the greater amount of overgeneralizing.

I consider myself to be very (if not extremely) open-minded, and I am not an easy person to offend. Really, if I get upset over something, it's because someone was really trying to upset me. Which is why if someone were to regard me as being into the family thing just because I'm into the animal thing, it wouldn't make me angry. I don't resent such people (well, I try not to, ;) ) because I understand them; I grew up around them, and in point of fact that made me strive harder to not be like them. It is one of the most dominant - and unfortunate - aspects of human nature...people fear what they do not understand. Most people cannot (or will not) understand a person of the zoo lifestyle, thus they lash out, hurt, make assumptions. It doesn't make it right, but defense mechanisms rarely act on logic.

One could make the point that this could have had some impact on my zoo/beast inclinations growing up; after all, your dog is never going to ask you if you've fantasied about sleeping with your sister, lol. :lol: :P But that's a topic for another thread. Or survey.

Your point about online fiction is spot-on. Fiction, fantasy, and taboo ideals are all popular subjects, and so it's logical that people would intertwine them here and there. Even if they don't write a story (or make a long rambling post, as yours truly is doing...again :ruck:), taking the subjects and drawing comparisons between them is interesting (well, to me at least). And so long as no wrong assumptions are made, or anyone is judged unfairly, making such comparisons is fine.

Like I said before, I think it would be interesting to know how many people out there (I'm talking about in the world in general, not specifically here on BF) are into zoo/beast, or into family, or into both. Like percentages of the population.

Or maybe I'm just one of those curious types who spends too much time thinking and wondering about stuff, lol. :lol:
After all, this is what, my 3rd time posting in this same thread? I hope roboto isn't sick of seeing my name come up. :P
It's just interesting to me, just as zoo as a lifestyle is interesting. I do not...and would not...view either as being wrong or unnatural. Provided all parties involved in the relationship/lifestyle are indeed legal and consenting, I say let people do what they wish, and whatever makes them happy. If you're only into one, that's fine. If you're into both, so be it. If neither is your thing, live and let live.

This post has been edited by Skyrune on Jun 4 2008, 05:24 PM

What I was really wondering about is are people who are interested in highly nonconventional relationships and practices generaly much more tollerant of other practices or basicly view practices that don't interest them much as the general population does.

Skyrune,
I admire the way you have posted on this, well thought and non judgmental, without some flippant quick response. I think we all have our own desire's perhaps they over lap in many ways such as FS with ZS or with D/s or homosexuality. It is like you said what most people do not understand they fear and make their own connections to what is what. I am disappointed when people make assumptions but I do understand that most of it comes from ignorance rather than stupidity (Maybe I am a hopeless optimist). I would never define myself as .....(insert "fetish/lifestyle")... I am a woman who is sexually open minded, and as long as what happens is between two consenting participants and in case of FS it adults, it's no one else's concern but perhaps my partner (spouse in my case) . To each their own I would never want to be judged on any level, so I try as I might not to judge another.
Blessings, VB