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Android raptor said:
No. A vast majority of child molesters identify as straight and are in heterosexual relationships with adults (if they have relationships with adults at all). Girls are also more likely to be molested than boys.
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It's not about whether straggots or faggots are more likely to be pedos; it's about whether a group of people with one paraphilia engaged in another paraphilia -- something that's very likely because paraphilias cluster. His attitude towards the "burned furs" is a good answer to this question.
 
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YOU WILL NOT make mean jokes on the "big meanie" internet forum.
YOU WILL hold reverence for some rotting old faggot because he started a sex cult that groomed untold numbers of kids.

Oh, fuck off.

Anyway, turns out he was a chomo and a really vicious one at that. Colour me surprised. I can't believe a pre-mainstream gay rights guy was a giant creep.
It's great. I can just point at people like this and a whole boatload of creepy shit will have retroactively happened. It's like magic.

@Roxanne Wolf you are a dumb nigger. You are the blackest gorilla nigger on this damn planet.
 
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Relinquish said:
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MOD EDIT:
Mark has no known direct ties to the extremely depraved subcommunities derived from the furry fandom such as zoosadists, he is simply the earliest organizer for the community. Temper your reactions to his passing accordingly. Or don't, I'm just a mod edit.
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The rest of the furries should have joined him. 2024 is one of the best years!
 
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Relinquish said:
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MOD EDIT:
Mark has no known direct ties to the extremely depraved subcommunities derived from the furry fandom such as zoosadists, he is simply the earliest organizer for the community. Temper your reactions to his passing accordingly. Or don't, I'm just a mod edit.
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FurFags are gonna shit in and around his casket before and after the burial
 
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Android raptor said:
No. A vast majority of child molesters identify as straight and are in heterosexual relationships with adults (if they have relationships with adults at all). Girls are also more likely to be molested than boys.

This isn't the Autism Thunderdome, advertising that you've drunk retarded far-right kool-aid just makes you look even more retarded here.
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Whatever you say pedophile. How about not shitting up everything you touch?
 
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Well The revelations about this dude (if true granted not all have proof but enough do) i take back my stance of weird and gay but only misguided. Clearly a degenerate and at fault for a shit ton of why things are as bad as they are.

I was wrong kiwi bros. I suspect he just had a low profile after a while somehow despite the orgy, public degeneracy loving, woke till the end disgusting old man he was. I wonder how that came to be though the degeneracy got worse and his name all but vanished from most knowledge.
 
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Mark Merlino seems like an interesting figure in furry history.

Found him mentioned on an article going over "who ruined furry":
After Mark Merlino started ConFurence, he ruined it. A homosexual propaganda zine reported that he had a convention you could “write to for more info”, a code to solicit perverted activity. Then the con was overrun with horny gay men who had no other interest.

Commenter: “Confurence ran a add in a gay magazine in the 90’s and furry became identified with gays.” – (Dogpatch Press, There’s a persistent rumor that Furry fandom was perverted by a bad ad for ConFurence).

There was also the “elevator jizz” incident at the con hotel. Merlino tried to cover up suspicious moisture by explaining that you had to use the elevator to get to the pool, so it was a little wet from bathing suits. Yeah, right… furries don’t have physiques for swimming, and you know what it means when you see shorts on a fursuiter.
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He was a founder of ConFurence, the first furry convention which started in 1989.

The first ConFurence was the location of this wonderful performance:
 
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You’re telling me that this guy

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was a perverted sex pest?

No way.
 
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TooManyKittens said:
Well The revelations about this dude (if true granted not all have proof but enough do) i take back my stance of weird and gay but only misguided. Clearly a degenerate and at fault for a shit ton of why things are as bad as they are.

I was wrong kiwi bros. I suspect he just had a low profile after a while somehow despite the orgy, public degeneracy loving, woke till the end disgusting old man he was. I wonder how that came to be though the degeneracy got worse and his name all but vanished from most knowledge.
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The vid might not even have a key part: The burned furries started because furries got so fucking bad they started going to MUDs explicitly for children, then ERP'ing. Then either not doing anything because they're friends with the mods or banning anyone that reported that shit.

Then people like this guy crybullied them then were surprised when the founder of the burned furries got pissed.

Apparently the latter half of that is what made it into wikis because of course.
 
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Here are some historical furry documents from his house's Twitter I thought were funny:
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Hire sex wierdoes to make your 'puter run good. Tale as old as time.
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It was always a sex thing. Even back when they were called the Funny Animal Fandom.
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This suit occasionally pops up in old videos. It's like a cryptid. I laugh every time I see it. It's like a parody. The man in the costume isn't Mark Merlino, it's some dude named Robert Hill.
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Before they used Blender and VRChat to unleash horrors onto the world, the furs could still absolutely nail the unsettling vibe with only a pen. Also the creature on the right is a dead ringer for Xander from Drawn Together.
 
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To expand more on the furry scene of Merlino's day and ConFurence which he co-founded here is an article from Dr. Pepper, the person who gave ConFurence its name. Be aware this was made in the 1980s.

Furry Fandom Observed (credited to Dr. Pepper)

This is an attempt to concisely explain furrydom to the curious. I am not myself a member of this group, this is what I have been told, have heard and read, or just observed in action. This is by no means complete but it is a start towards understanding.
  1. In the simplest terms furry fandom is the admiration of creatures that have both human and animal traits. Since such do not actually exist, this is considered a subgenre of science fiction/fantasy fandom.
  2. One aspect of this is simply liking so called "funny animal" cartoons and comics, such as Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, et al. Such creatures are not conceived with much logic, and it is their human references that are important, the animal shape is more for humor than anything else.
  3. Then there is the envy of certain traits observed in animals. Such traits include speed, strength, grace, beauty, cunning and of course possession of fur. Most of the animals people are attracted to are mammals, hence the term "furry," but nothing is excluded.
  4. This leads to the desire to put oneself in the animal's place so as to be able to really experience what it is like to be so gifted.
  5. But most people want to have this experience with human type sapience. This leads to the postulation of various kinds of creatures.
  6. Real animals that somehow can think and talk. A lot of folklore and mythology is mined for source material for these. Of more recent vintage is the idea of using biological or digital technology to augment ordinary creatures.
  7. Sapient analogs of certain animals. These include parallel evolution on other worlds, human genetic intervention, and additional evolution, say due to massive radiation.
  8. Gene spliced creatures made to order. These can range from customized humans to totally new beings made with the desired combination of traits.
  9. Furry fans like to read and write stories involving any of those creatures, admire and create art featuring them, and play games that include them. This includes playacting, such as answering the phone with a "meow."
  10. But some people are more than just furry FANS. These people are simply called FURRIES.
  11. Furries are those who get into the concept so much that they deliberately develop alternate personas that actually have those animal traits. Each persona takes on a life of its own in a sort of controlled schizophrenia such as ventriloquists and fantasy gamers practice.
  12. Furries have many different ways to relate to their furry personas. Some think of them as totally different beings who happen to live inside them. Others see them as simply minor varients of themselves. And still others see them as vehicles for normally suppressed aspects of their own personalities.
  13. The most interesting way of viewing a persona, though, is to see it as some sort of mystical entity that can confer benefits which are represented by the animal shape. Some relate this to a witch's familiar or to the spirit guardian of the Plains Indians. This can be taken literally, that is with actual belief in such entities, or in a Jungian fashion, that the animal shape is a symbolic key to unlock unconscious abilities.
  14. Fine. So what do furries do with their personas? They communicate through them. The definition of the persona determines how the furry will express themself. This can be quite different from how the actual person does it. This may facilitate communication under circumstances in which the person would normally feel inhibited.
  15. In fact it has been claimed that, despite the impression one might get about the persona as "putting on a mask," the use of the persona actually enables a person to be more genuinely themselves. That's because the persona has more freedom, not being subject to the stifling layers that social convention puts on us mere humans.
  16. Long as we're getting free of social conventions, we might as well get to sex. Most furries are interested in the concept of sex between themselves as themselves, or themselves as their personas, with other such creatures. This differs from simple bestiality in that the partner is another mature sapient. So regardless of the species difference, it remains full participation sex between two people.
  17. Dear me, did I say two? Two is another social convention. A lot (most?) furries like group sex.
  18. In fact, social conventions seem to go down like dominos once one gets started. That may be why so many (most?) furries are bi.
  19. Let us now pause while the straight and monogamous folks come out from wherever they just dived into for cover.
  20. Ok, didn't mean to chase anyone off. The point is that wherever may be on the spectrum, from full fledged furriness to just a reader of "Panda Khan," there is a place in furrydom for you.
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It's a mixed bag at face value, so I don't blame you or anyone from going to one end or the other. With that said, I should modify the feature heading to be less in poor taste after further consideration. Unlike the newsworthy deaths reported on the forum, the general reaction is going to be polarized, so I think it's best not to sway opinions towards one direction due to wording. There's going to be arguments, but that's the nature of the topic.
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What was the original header?
 
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