Furry Lifestyle Survey - Furvey ----- --------- ------ ------ The Furvey is probably the first ever attempt to correlate information about furs who chose to lead a furry lifestyle. The point of the Furvey is to find similarities amongst furries, in all aspects of their lifestyle. For example, it would be very revealing to discover the most popular totem animal, or that most furries consider themselves psychic. Another use for the Furvey is similar to that of the werecards in use in alt.horror.werewolves. Basically, two close furries exchange copies of the completed Furveys, so that they can learn more about each other. The results of this Furvey will be distributed across the Internet. They will be posted to the appropriate furry newsgroups (for example, alt.lifestyle.furry) and perhaps uploaded to an FTP site (Avatar). They may also be displayed at the next Confurence. Okay, so how do you submit the answers? Well, you can email them to: lyndale@argonet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: Locandez - original concept, most questions, reworking Lynx Meerkat - furry sexuality questions Tim Gadd, Ron Orr, Fox-Wolfie - miscellaneous suggestions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: *All* questions are optional - there is no need to answer any questions which you don't want to. This especially applies to the furry sexuality questions. Most questions are open ended - so write as much or as little as you like. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Furvey 2.5 ========== Yourself -------- 1) Are you male or female? 2) How old are you? 3) What zodiac sign are you? 4) What Chinese New Year animal are you? (if you don't know, write the year in which you were born) 5) What month/day were you born in? 6) Are you left handed or right handed? 7) What interests/hobbies do you have? 8) What do you do for a living? 9) What talents do you have? 10) What annoys you the most, in general? 11) Where in the world do you live? 12) What part of your country do you live in? (city, countryside, suburbs etc) 13) Do you consider yourself to be psychic, in any way? 14) Do you consider yourself to be of above-average intelligence? 15) Is your living space (e.g. room/house/apartment etc) furry themed? 16) What kind of music do you like? 17) What do you do to relax/wind down? 18) Do you draw/write/make furry things? 19) Have other furs seen them? 20) Have non-furs seen them? 21) Have they been shown somewhere ? (Avatar, newgroups, web pages, comics, fanzines) 22) Are you a meat eater? Being furry ----------- 23) How does furriness influence your life? 24) Do you think about furriness more than anything else? 25) Was your furriness evidence from a young age? 26) What do you like most/least about being furry now? 27) What is/are your 'totem' animal(s)? 28) How, and when, did you realise your furriness? 29) Was it by accident, or did you strive to discover why you felt this way? 30) Do you think that your (human) body resembles, in any way, an animal? (e.g. long, slender feet) 31) Do you think that your personality resembles that of any animal/furry? 32) Would you prefer to not feel furry? 33) What kind of furry interests/hobbies do you have? 34) Do you ever doubt how furry you are? 35) Are you ashamed/proud of being furry? 36) Have you ever worried about your 'furriness'? 37) Did you ever think you were childish/weird/confused? 38) Did you every attempt to seek professional advice/write to a problem page? 39) Have you ever had a furry dream? 40) Do you have them on a regular basis? 41) Do you wear 'furry' clothes? (not necessarily fursuits) 42) How do you act furry in public/in private/with friends? (furry and non-furry friends) 43) Do you collect items relating to your totem animal? e.g. statues, plushies etc. 44) Do you collect miscellaneous furry items? e.g.books, magazines, etc 45) Has a major event in your life ever been affected by your furriness, or had a furry theme? e.g. a wedding 46) Do you think you are furry for a reason, if so, why? Being 'truly' furry ------------------- 47) What would you most/least like about being 'truly' furry? 48) Do you ever worry about being furry not being as you imagine? 49) Would you worry about being shunned by society/friends/family if you became 'truly' furry? 50) Would you (given the chance) live in a furry-only world? 51) Would you become an animal/furry (assuming you could change back), given the chance? 52) Would you become an animal/furry (assuming you *couldn't* change back), given the chance? 53) Do you ever fantasise about being 'truly' furry? 54) Describe your furry alter ego. 55) Is your furry alter ego a carnivore/vegetarian/ominvore? Furry fandom ------------ 56) What furry things do you watch/read? e.g. films, cartoons, books etc Religion -------- 57) Are you religious? 58) What religion are you? 59) Do you think that being furry is like a religion? 60) Does being furry make you question your religion/beliefs? Other people ------------ 61) Are there others in your family who are furry? 62) Do you worry about people knowing about your furriness? 63) Are there people who are intolerant of your furry lifestyle? 64) How do you cope with these people? 65) Do you know someone who might be furry, but isn't aware of it? 66) How can you tell? 67) Have you ever introduced somebody into furrydom? 68) Is your Significant Other furry? 69) Do you think the world would be better if everyone was furry? The Internet ------------ 70) What newsgroups do you subscribe to? 71) What furry-internet activities do you do? 72) Do you access FurryMuck (or similar), to live out a virtual furry life? 73) How important do you think the Internet is in your furry lifestyle? 74) Do you access/did you join the Internet just for the furry stuff? 75) Do you have your own web page/FTP site? 76) What kind of things are on it? 77) How did you discover the online furry community? Furry community --------------- 78) How did you discover the furry community? 79) Are you glad that you discovered the 'furry community'? 80) How have you benefited from the 'furry community'? 81) Have you met (real life) furries? 82) Do you often go to furry gatherings? e.g. Confurence, informal gatherings 83) What activities do you parcipitate with other furries in real life? Animals ------- 84) Do you own any pets, or have access to animals? (stables etc) 85) Would you like to own some pets, or have access to animals? 86) Do you work / have you ever worked / do you want to work with animals/furries? 87) Do you 'bond' easily with animals? 88) Do you agree with hunting? 89) Are you concerned about the environment? 90) About cruelty to animals? 91) What are your favourite kinds of pet? 92) Are you interested in real animals as well as furries? 93) Do you have a greater-than-average knowledge of your totem animal(s)? i.e. do you own books on wolves or foxes, etc. 94) Do you ever get annoyed about how animals (in particular, your totem animal) are portrayed in fables/mythology? 95) Have you ever/do you enjoy watching animals in the wild? e.g. lions on safari, foxes in your backyard etc 96) What is your least favourite kind of animal/pet? 97) Do you read books/magazines/etc about totem animals, theriopomorphing or animal thelogy etc? Furry sexuality (yiffing) ------------------------- 98) How would you describe your sexuality? examples: heterosexual homosexual bisexual transexual group sex outdoor sex cross-dressing fur-suit sex (yourself, or your partner(s) being dressed up in furry animal costumes) fetishes (e.g. pvc, leather, sex toys, fur etc) zoophile (has a loving relationship with animals, also has sex with them) zoosexual (has sex with animals, but not a relationship) furry (a generic term) plushophile (loves and/or has sex with plushie animals) toonophile (attracted to cartoon characters, especially furries) B&D (Bondage and Discipline - ropes, bondage, restraints etc) S&M (Sado-masochism - similar to B&D but with pain) TS (TinySex - sex over the Internet, e.g. using FurryMuck or IRC) Watersports- urinating 99) Does outdoors sex make you feel more furry? 100) Do you prefer humans, animals, plushies, furries, or are they equal? 101) Is your sexual orientation with humans the same as it is with animals? 102) What are your favourite animals/characters for zoophilia /zoosexuality /plushiophilia /toonophilia/ inflatable animal sex? 103) In what aspects of your sexuality are you open? Are non-furries aware of your furry sexuality (if appropriate) 104) Do you enjoy sex with animals and humans simultaneously? 105) Are any of your plushies anatomically correct? 106) It is a common case for many furries to live thier lives as heterosexual, and then through furry to discover their attraction for the same sex, (be it same sex humans or furries) - is this the case with you? 107) Has your discovery of being furry made you re-evaluate your sexuality? 108) Do you feel you are more open sexually due to furriness? 109) Do you enjoy casual sex with furries/non furries? 110) Do you practice safe sex? 111) How do your masturbation fantasies involve furries? (if appropriate) 112) Does sex in a fursuit make you feel more furry? 113) Do you compare a relationship (sexual or not) as being analogous to a pack or pride behaviour?