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My Plushophilia

I just wrote a little rant somewhere else, but I feel like I would like to share it here. I don't know how many of you know this, but I consider myself a plushophile. I have for a while. Anyways, I was browsing FA a few minutes ago, and I came across a picture of some plushies thrown in the trash. I originally wrote a comment attributing the fact that it made me feel physically ill to me simply being a hoarder, but then I thought about it, and made an edit that said this:

"It's more than that. I don't feel like this when I see other perfectly good items thrown away, not this bad. This is injurous to my soul, and I think the reason is I have a deep love and respect for plushies that I know they can't return. As irrational as it is, to me, stuffed animals are living things, and trashing thim is tantamount to killing them. I'm a plushophile in the truest sense of the word. Philia (φιλία) means love. In the same way, I am a zoophile. I love animals, both real and plush and would never inflict harm on them. Yes, it is sexual, in both instances, but that's only a small piece of the puzzle."

I know not all plushophiles share my experience, and there's a good chance that the person who posted the photo also considers themselves to be a plushophile. I just want to know what everyone thinks. Yes, I also admitted to being a zoophile. That's no secret on the online world for me. I know that

FoxWolfie

follows me, so if you're reading this, I would like your input.

Also, five minutes after writing the rant, it already seems cringy and overly emotional, but I just have to live with the fact that my true thoughts are like that.

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baseballdude4578

7 years, 3 months ago

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I get the same feeling when I see old computer equipment thrown away; the poor computers and boards did nothing wrong, they don't deserve to be mistreated and destroyed, they all deserve a chance to compute again :3

CompliantCoon

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ baseballdude4578

I definitely feel like that sometimes too. I'm definitely a hoarder all-around, but plushies are special to me.

FoxWolfie

7 years, 3 months ago

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I know sort of how you feel.  I hate seeing things thrown away that are still good.  Most plushies that are thrown away are still perfectly good, and they are often ones that are hard to find or afford.  I don't actually think plushies are alive, but my own plushies are way too special to me to ever throw away. I've given many away before, and I've even had to donate some because I hoard too many and sometimes need to make room. I try my best to make sure they end up with someone who wants to keep and care for them.

Most of the plushies I get attached to are older ones from the '80s and '80s, back when they were made to last.  Newer ones, like you could find in stores over the past 15 years tend to be very low quality, bordering on junk.  It doesn't bug me as much if people toss those, because they often start to fall apart from ordinary cuddling. They aren't made to be cuddled, played with and last any more, which is sad. It sucks, because an entire generation of people has forgotten what a well-made plushie is like. Almost no one cares any more.

As much as I love my plushies, I force myself to not get too bothered by what other people do with their own.  All that does is potentially cause depression.  I love my plushies, even though they can't love me back. I just don't attach myself to plushies that are not mine. After all, if I can't control what happens to them, and it would just become frustrating.

I can't really complain about what other people do with their plushies, including throwing them away, or destroying them. The moment I complain about what I don't like, I'm opening the door for people to complain about what I do.  And, I know that would bother some people.  I sleep with mine. I have sex with mine. I wet the bed with mine, and like to leave them smelling pee-stinky, because I love the smell and I absolutely love cuddling my plushies when they smell so perfect to me. Those are the ones I am closest to. I don't modify my plushies by putting holes in them, as many plushophiles do, but I like mine to smell very pee-stinky and to be visibly discolored from years of loving.

One thing that really bothers me though is when someone destroys or messes with plushies that they do not own. I've seen posts on plushie lists where users would steal plushies from siblings, or other people for the sole purpose of cutting, burning, or otherwise destroying the plush, just to hurt the feelings of their victim. That bothers me, and I never want to be around people like that.

You say that you are a hoarder?  Try hoarding over 3,000 plushies in your house like I have!  Several of my rooms have no visible floor or bed. The plushies are waist to chest deep all through those rooms!  If you ever visited here, you'd probably end up sleeping somewhere in one of those plushie pile rooms!

I've been sexual with plushies ever since I discovered what being sexual was.  And, as for zoophilia, it's probably a good thing that real skunks, raccoons, ferrets, beavers, squirrels, etc, are not size compatible for sexual relationships with humans!  I'd surely have a hard time controlling myself if a human-sized raccoon ever came into my life!

CompliantCoon

7 years, 3 months ago

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Edited 7 years, 3 months ago by Owner

@ FoxWolfie

I don't, of course, literally think that plushies are alive, but it feels wrong not to treat them as such. My plushies are in a lot of ways my freinds. When I was little, I didn't go crying to my mom. I held one of my plushies and cried into their fur. While I don't have an intense emotional connection to all of my plushies, it seems wrong to me for a plushie to be anywhere but on a bed ready to be cuddled when the time comes.

I'm only 20 years old, I've spent most of my life with "junk" plushies, and yes, a lot of them are falling apart, but I don't love them any less for it, I just treat them with more care. I have noticed a decrease in quality of both the manufacturing and designs in my lifetime. For instance, I really like TY stuff from the 90's and early 2000s, but nowadays they make big-eyed ugly things. That being said, I wouldn't even throw away one of those if it was in my possesion. It's not their fault that they're ugly and falling apart from the day they are made.

Kids these days love thieir cheap Walmart plushies just as much as I love my Beanie Buddies, and you love all the cool ones you love. The people who don't care are 50 year old buisinessmen who only care about money. I have a lot of recently made plushies. Some have weird stitching errors, some are just formless and quite a few have holes or are missing eyes. I would never think of throwing them away. I hope that one day, I'm able to pay someone like https://doctorbeth.tumblr.com/ To give them new life.

I'm not really very good at not being bothered by things I can't change. I wasn't really complaining about what the person was doing, though, I was more writing down the musing that the photo caused me. I do certainly think that there's a big difference between pissing on a plushie, even putting holes in them, and tossing them out in the trash. Either of the first two things can easily be rationalized as happy, positive things, sending them off to a landfill, never to be loved again, is not as easily defensable.

I agree that it is quite sick and detestable to mess with a plushie that somebody else loves. It's equally disgusting, and sadly pretty common, when adult "caretakers" take away their children's plushies or security blankets to force them to "grow up."

I'm not at anywhere near 3000, but I do have over 100, which leaves little room for myself on my queen-sized bed. I wouldn't want it any other way, though. I feel like I'd be in heaven at your place. I don't mind if the plushies are a bit pee-stinky.

I've also experiemented sexually with plushies from a very early age. Most of the time when I jack-off, I'm holding one of my plushies and thinking of them as an anthro (an anthro cub with little-to-know potty training, but that's another discussion).

First off, all of those animals are big enough for some amount of sexual activity. While it would probably have to be limited to handjobs, kisses, and genital-licking, there's no shame in that. There's no reason that you would have to control yourself around a person-sized raccoon, or more realistically a large dog. Animals love sex just as much as humans, and they need not be deprived. They are certainly more than capable of wanting it, and "informed" consent isn't an issue because they aren't repressed by default, as humans seem to be. I'm definitely more than willing to go more in depth about why I'm a 100% pro-contact zoophile if you'd be willing to engage me.

(Legal note because the State of Washington sucks balls: I do not intend to encourage or promote act of illegal bestiality.)

FoxWolfie

7 years, 3 months ago

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I don't care what people do with their plushies, as long as they are able to hug and love them after.  If someone wets on a plushie, but continues to love it, then there's no problem. If they poop on a plushie and turn around and keep caring for it with love, I figure nothing is being hurt, if that's what works for them. There are things I don't do with mine, but mainly because I wouldn't want someone doing those things to me. For example, I'll never barf on a plushie, because I wouldn't want that on myself either, but someone else is perfectly free to do that to theirs if they're into that.

It does sort of bother me when people do something with a plushie that makes the plushie no good to them any more, so they just toss it. Some people do stuff like that for spite. They'll pee on a plush and throw it away, because it was intended to degrade and hurt for them. I talked with one guy who liked ripping his plushies. That sounds bad and harsh, but then he said that he's never thrown any away. He loves them even in their apparently damaged state. When they god so bad that they fell apart, he's stuff them into another plushie as filler and sew it in. I can't understand his need to do that, but because he still loves them too much to part with them, I don't feel too upset about what he does.

One guy used to take picture of his plushies, spray paint vulgar words onto them and throw then in a dumpster. He had zero love for them. He called them all sorts of nasty names, and purposely bought them to paint and toss. That just feels wrong to me. Of course, it would bother me the same if someone called me the same bad names and tried to trash me.  Some people just seem to have a heart that seeks pain, violence and even evil.

I suspect if you ended up in my plush piles that it would be hard to find you!  I have some fursuits mixed in with the plushies, so if you were in one of those, you'd blend right in with the plushies.  Most plushies don't seem to be potty trained, so they've been know to piddle here and there.  It's usually ones that are in clothes, like a lot of the Build-a-Bear ones. Maybe they just have a hard time getting their pants down when they need to go!

I agree with you about animals.  Unfortunately, that can't be talked about in any detail here, as it's not allowed. That would have to go to email or something.  In any case, I'm not in a state that even allows most types of animals, and I don't actually own any pets.

Part of having parts is being able to provide for them. I don't get enough money to provide a good home for anything but the smallest critters, and on my income, I could never afford to feed a large dog, or to cover vet bills and such.

CompliantCoon

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ FoxWolfie

"	FoxWolfie wrote:
	I don't care what people do with their plushies, as long as they are able to hug and love them after.

Exactly, this gets to the heart of what I was trying to say. Body fluids, holes, whatever, none of it bothers me, as long as the person is still able to love the plushie, and doesn't just toss them out with the trash.

As for the person who likes to rip his plushies, I agree that it doesn't really seem very bad, because he still loves them.

Just like there are people who get-off on hurting animals, zoosadists we might call them, there also seem to be people that get off on "hurting" plushies. These people can be more accurately called plushosadists in my book, rather than plushophilies, because as I said, philia (φιλία) means love. While it's certainly better than hurting something that can actually feel pain in real life, It seems like one's heart would have to be full of hate to treat plushies like that.

I'm sure you would have trouble finding me in your plush piles. Also, when it comes to plushies, or really anything else, the less potty-training the better.

I'm not really sure what rule you're talking about, but I'm also not sure exactly how deep and revealing you want to go. I added a good email adress to my profile page one here, so by all means contact me there.

Of course having pets requires time and money. Of course, the primary concern is the animal's well-being, and unfortuanately, we don't all have the money to care for an animal properly. At least we all have fantasy.

Here's a random question that all the talk of body-fluids and plushies got me thinking about: Do plushies mold?

FoxWolfie

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ CompliantCoon

I think you can get a fair idea of what someone's heart is like by the way they treat their plushies, and how they treat other people.  Those that can simply yiff and toss their plushies, with no apparent evidence of love, tend to do the same things with the people they are with as well.  Some people only care about their own plushies, and have no concerns about their mate, be it a human, and animal, or a plush. When they are done "using" it, they just toss it aside and move on. Others cater to the well-being and happiness of their mate first, and build lasting bonds that insure they can't just toss anything aside.  I guess it's part of the difference between having a loving heart, and just using people, animals and things for momentary pleasure.

If you think, "the less potty training, the better", then You'll certainly like my plushies. I don't own very many that are potty trained. It's safe to say that almost all of them enjoy wetting, and a handful of them sometimes even enjoy more extreme kinds of potty fun! I don't mix the really dirty ones in with the general population of my plushies, but there is no doubt that some like to enjoy some very stinky and dirty fun.

Yes, plushies can mold.  If you leave them damp in a dark place for too long, where fresh air can't get to them to dry, they will start to mold and smell of mildew. If' it's just a little on the surface, they can easily be cleaned. If they are allowed to mold to the core, it can weaken the stitching that holds their fur together, and even eat through the fur itself in extreme cases.  Yes, I've had some very sad and upsetting accidents in my life, like the time when I put my favorite ferret hand puppet in a clothes dryer, and it totally ruined his fur. That was all because people kept saying how disgusting it was to wet on my plushies and how I need to wash them if I ever planned on taking them to a con where other people could see them.  I learned very fast what you can and can't do with plushies. My ferret was so much better off smelling of pee and cum, than he was with drier-burnt fur. That was way back in 1996, and it still upsets me what I did to his fur out of ignorance at the time. I still have the ferret though, and he's still special to me, because he was my very first Folkmanis puppet, that I bought when I first discovered furry and met other furs in real life.

It seems that the rule I was thinking of no longer exists.  I just read through the entire content policy and terms of use, and see no mention of any rules on zoophilia.  I swear that I read the rules before and it was mentioned. I guess I'm either wrong, or the rules where relaxed since then. All I could find was that we can't submit stuff that's illegal in our location. Since it isn't illegal to simply talk about zoophilia to other adults in the US, I guess I can talk about it.  It is illegal to actually solicit real-life zoophilia, and to actually do it in real life, in most areas.  Reflecting on old teenage zoo experiences from twenty, thirty or more years ago probably won't get anyone in trouble, but if someone is actively enjoying it in the present, I don't think it would be a good idea to mention on any open site!  In any case, I'm 100 percent zoo-friendly, and have no problems with it, as long as no one is forcing or abusing anything. Of course, since -philia means love, and abuse is essentially a form of anti-love, anyone who is abusing an animal to get sex can not be a zoophile by definition. They'd be committing bestiality without love in that case. Unfortunately, the law in most places equates zoophilia (animal-love) with bestiality (sex with animals). You can certainly have love and sex together, which is wonderful.  But, you can also have sex without love, or love without sex.  Sex without love has a high potential for becoming abusive.

CompliantCoon

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ FoxWolfie

Some people definitely don't have good hearts. I think that does reflect in how they treat humans, non-human animals, and objects. I actually only do sexual stuff with a small number of my plushies, who I consider to be my "mates". Throwing away one of my mates would be tantamount to killing a loved-one. I love my other plushies too, and very occasionally do sexual things with them, I just have a few (5) that are extra special to me. I also have a different few that I've had as long as I can remember, that are special to me for that reason. That being said, I would never throw away any of my plushies, they're like family.

I have only wet on one of my plushies. The primary reason for that is because I still live at home, and I don't want any uncomfortable questions, like "why does your room smell like pee?", or "why is this white plush stained yellow?" I'm not into "extreme potty fun" at all, if you're talking about scat, ehich I presume you are. I like soiling/ messing, but poop is still usually gross to me. I'm not trying to kink-shame you or anything, it's just not my thing. It's funny, because I often do fantasize about them messing. Cubs messing is one of my favorite fantasies. I just don't actually want poop to be anywhere but in the toilet, or in my, or some other actual person's pants. The clean-up for the later is not fun to me.

Have you had very many problems with plushies molding because of pee? That would be my primary worry with peeing on any fabric. and not actively drying it. Though, I don't know if pee would encourage, or discourage mold over just water. It sucks what happened to your ferret. Washers and dryers can definitely be an enemy of plushies. I have a couple plushies with dryer-damaged fur. One (a bear) wasn't really mine, but the owner didn't want him. The cat peed on him, and my mom had me either wash him or throw him away. I would never throw him away, so I washed him in a pillowcase, because I heard that ca help protect against the damage. I didn't realize that it would be a bad idea to dry him. I also have a lien that seems to be dryer-damaged that I got from the thrift store.

Yeah, the only site I've heard about banning people for frank discussion of bestiality is e621. They also banned my freind

TayFerret

for no explicit reason, but it was probably because he's a pro-contact (but law-abiding) pedophile. He's been banned from a lot of sites for simply stating his honest opinions. I tend to lie-low more than him, but I agree with him on most things. I'm also willing to discuss that kind of thing, if need be.

As for zoophilia, unfortuanately, I'm not participaing in any zoophilia now, and that's unlikely to change in the near future. I don't even have any teenage experiences of note. The only dogs we have, and have had for years are female, spayed dogs. We haven't had a male dog since I was like 5, and unlike [iconname]Swiftpaw[/iconname] I did not know anything about sexuality at that time. The cloest I've come to a proper zoophile experince was some groping of the neihbor's dogs' sheaths when I was a teen, but I wasn't alone with them long enough for them to even get hard. I definitely agree that sex is best when there's love, and bad things can happen if there isn't. Of course any word ending in -philia means that there should be love for the word to apply, and using the word otherwise is incorrect.

FoxWolfie

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ CompliantCoon

I bought a house mainly because it was the only way to have the privacy I needed, and so no one could tell me to wash my stuff because it smells like pee. Anyone who visits me knows what I'm into and is okay with it.  I simply don't invite anyone if I think they're going to have issues with pee smells on my plushies.  It was a lot more stressful when I still lived at home, and had little control over people getting into my stuff. I had to hide smells and other evidence of the sexual things I was into.

The vast majority of my plushies are peed and cummed on, but that's all. Only a small few of them have been into the dirtier stuff. I intentionally keep those separate, because it's something only for certain plushies at certain times. It's also something I don't prefer to do alone when it does happen.  Needless to say, it makes that sort of fun kind of rare. It's more for the pleasure of some partners when it happens. In the right circumstances it can greatly add to the fun. But, when I'm with my plushies at most times, I wouldn't want to put my face in a browned plushie by accident, hence why I keep the few that get way separated.  They are still very loved though.

I generally don't have too many problems with molding, as long as I routinely rotate through my plush piles and make sure any that are not wet or damp and are not buried. It usually takes about around a week for a wet plushies to start molding, and that generally only happens if they are unable to get access to fresh air.  A lot likely depends on your local climate too. Someone in Seattle is surely going to have more mold potential than someone in Pheonix.

I've never notice pee causing more mold than just water. If anything, if pee starts to turn to ammonia, it actually prevents the growth of mold. You'll have to learn mostly from experience though. One thing that does cause mole fairly fast is soap residue.  If you ever wash plushies, and you fail to rinse them very thoroughly, they are far more likely to mold, sometimes even in just a day or two. Mold seems to feed on soap residue like it's candy!  For this reason, if I must wash a plushie, I avoid using any soap at all. If there's a dirty area that must be cleaned, I'll rub it clean with 90% rubbing alcohol, rather than washing the entire plushie. Or, if the entire plush needs cleaned, I'll take wash it with plain room-temperature water in the bathtub, squeeze most of the water out, and leave it on towels in front of a fan to dry - rotating it every hour or two. Under normal conditions, I simply don't wash my plushies. I like the accumulated dried pee smell too much.

aunkown

7 years, 3 months ago

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I find this post very intriguing and interesting. Would love to have an in-depth talk with you about these sorts of things. I find it pretty cool when we go into this extensive discussion of kinks.

CompliantCoon

7 years, 3 months ago

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@ aunkown

Yep. I'm more than willing to talk. I don't have discord, like you seem to always want to talk on, but I have a variety of other contact methods. If it's stuff you're willing to say "publicly" we can discuss on the comments here. If you want the illusion of privacy, I like using the PMs here. If you want real privacy, Tox is really the only option, and I reccomend looking in to it.

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