Jonathan Vair Duncan  🗡️ 🦁 🌞

Let's take this further: You hate zoophilia. You get a commission request from someone w/animal bits on their dog anthro. You check their faves and you see lots of zoo' pics, but the commission is just a 'sona pinup. Is taking that commission supporting zoo', somehow?

OFC, not everyone into animal bits on anthro are abusers. Some people just like Bad Dragon. But my personal stance is that I will not draw non-human genitalia unless we sit down and talk about why that interest is there. And I decline if I don't like what I hear.

You'll hear this from Uncle Kage when he's damage-controlling anti-furry sentiments in the press: Furries are rarely ever into zoo, but zoos get into furry in the same way that a necrophile may want to pursue mortuary sciences. He's right. I think of that quote often.

So, artists, is ignoring that animal bit correlation justifiable next time this comes up? Do you owe it to yourself to do a background check on animal bits? For ME, I must check every time. And w/my rep, thankfully, I get very few requests for that design trait.

You may find this hard to believe, but I have to do a background check on every single commission that I deem as sexually overt / pornographic. As a recovering sex addict, if I didn't do that, I'd be such a hypocrite. That's how broken my life was from my addiction.

Despite my brokenness, I have the humility to acknowledge my own dumb brain and choices don't represent all others. This is how I know for a fact that porn isn't objectively evil, that it can even be used for healing purposes.

If you look into the ABDL scene, you'll find a lot of consenting adults doing something about their difficult, stressed lives. That overlaps often w/babyfurs I've met. But if you draw/share cub, expect your pics WILL be bedfellows w/an abusive minority, despite your intention.

Say it's just fantasy, like art that was ageplay between you and your consenting adult partner—I can't police that. But I don't see how it's worth it to take that contained element and share it w/the public. The cost-benefit seems off to me, to share that fantasy w/o context.