Inappropriate Behaviour (self.zoophilia)
submitted 2015-04-14 17:22:30 by Yearningmice

Boy, I'd like to first say that whatever you guys do with yourself amongst yourselves as friends, please continue to enjoy. This ain't about consenting adults or even uncomfortable PDAs. Nor is this topic about animals, although to me their safety is paramount. This is not about the ethics of what you do, but is about how some of us are perceived.

With that out of the way I can't help but notice, what with the refugees from BF and other DDoSed sites, that I am getting an inordinate number of really really inappropriate messages. While these may be appropriate for places dedicated to hook-ups and we all know the "normals" are just as bad on their dating sites. At what point should we stand up and say no, it is not appropriate to talk about "making your mare gush", "tips and tricks", or "have you...?" in the very first message you send someone?

Yes, I'm a sexual guy, yes, you can tell my sexuality from where I hang out, but that gives you no calling to contact me to add me to your stable of get off material.

I mean, I hope you are a fine person like most of the zoos I know, but give me a chance to find out you are rather than shattering all hope of an intelligent discussion if I'm simply not "down" with you.

zoozooz 3 points on 2015-04-14 17:52:08

I agree, of course, but just today this got posted in /r/bestof and it seems relatively similar. It's a problem but I don't think it's a problem that's specific to zoophilia or /r/zoophilia.

Yearningmice 5 points on 2015-04-14 18:24:09

I agree for sure that it can often be "young men full of testosterone" or whatever excuse and is certainly not exclusive to zoophilia. It is an issue I'd like people to be aware of because of the fact that fair or not, we need to do better and will still not be good enough.

Yearningmice 8 points on 2015-04-14 18:37:55

I should have also said that I've been saying this about how women are treated in the zoo community forever.

I once had a guy tell me he just wanted to chat up women and marry them for "the cover" when it was obvious to me that his conversations were so charged that not a single women felt comfy around him and so often women leave zoo forums because of stuff like that.

[deleted] 4 points on 2015-04-14 22:54:10

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Sapphire_seam Equus 3 points on 2015-04-15 04:08:57

Oh dear... Fetishists :/ A very self centred bunch

Yearningmice 2 points on 2015-04-15 11:28:33

Well, while I started my story with BF, I would argue that you've just committed the no true scottman falicy where we just say that anyone who does something we don't like simply isn't one of us.

Now, interestingly, the examples I gave were of 50+ year olds who are neither new to the community nor would normally be classified as "not a zoo" if you read their life stories.

My only hope for this post was to bring a little bit of awareness, we certainly can't police this one either....

yelikedags 2 points on 2015-04-15 13:23:10

Damn Scots... ruined Scotland.

Sapphire_seam Equus 1 point on 2015-04-17 07:04:12

well you could argue that and i would argue against it.