Hey, I've always want to make that question to someone.

Has any adult artist changed your life in any way?

I mean...like whygena made when he make a lot of people discover they sexualty with the Reggie video.

Not any artist in specific, but porn helped me first to figure out my gender issues, and then it helped me to become more comfortable with my body.

I'd been following Telem for over a decade on FA because I liked his content, but he's become one of my best friends in the last couple of years. He's a good person.

Uhh, a whole lot...

• Turned me into a gooner of sorts
• Introduced me to ALL the kinks
• Which has led me to trying to edu-ma-cate Redditors on why people may enjoy various kinks, whenever they engage in their favorite pastime of kink shaming (ABDL = pedophilia, keep the furries away from pets, etc.). Not sure if it really works, but I try.
• Brought me to this forum
• Motivated me to sorta learn Japanese, but never really get past a beginner level, since absolutely zero conversational competency is needed to read porn dialogue
• After 16 years (of viewing furry porn. I'm not 16), it recently motivated me to buy a drawing tablet so I can make art, but I haven't tried to use it yet. ^{Actually, I did buy one over a decade ago and never used it. Maybe I'll actually use this one, lol}

Also, my relationship with drawn porn vs. real porn is complicated. Real porn containing sex tends to make me uncomfortable in a way (nudes and kinks are fine though). I prefer furry porn, where there's a psychological degree of separation.

crocogator said:
I prefer furry porn, where there's a psychological degree of separation.

My first time hearing someone else who feels the same way. That's exactly why I like yiff, as well. Though I do watch regular hardcore porn too, probably about once every week or two.

It ironically made me learn more about the human anatomy and how it works more than school has ever taught me, college included.

Well, tagging on e621 has helped improve my memory that I have trouble with ever since the accident of 2017.

I suppose dwelling in it made me more open-minded in general. And it's interesting to see or try to analise the artistry behind the horny.

I ended up as staff here because of my tagging obsession, and met some lovely people through that. That's about it though

Funnily enough I used to be insanely skittish and skeeved out at particular types of porn, used to think it was disgusting and that it had no place being drawn/enjoyed. Gradually though I started to wind down and came to realize that its all just make believe the more that I saw and experienced. Bled into dabbling with some of it with friends in RP and found I actually enjoyed it more when I just stopped being such a hardass on what people should like. It helped me learn to open up and chill the fuck out, aint nothing wrong with shit that dont hurt people between consenting adults.

I noticed that I don’t like real porn and prefer more «fairy tale» feeling that gives furry draw version. Also noticed that I like manly feeling more.

Although I'm more into nudes, erotic art has quite made me creative in certain ways. Right now, I'm having an experimental time in dabbling in multiple art mediums and with mixing colors.

I can't really ever look at pokemon the same again, not that its a bad thing I like being constantly horny.

I developed a resistance to the thots of the world so I can think more reasonably when dealing with how much money to spend on tips.

ottoman said:
I can't really ever look at pokemon the same again, not that its a bad thing I like being constantly horny.

same

zenace said:
same

I, personally, blame dagasi. Though other people I assume would have other artists they like, dagasi just does such game accurate pokemon that I can't see them any other way.

met my husband when he commissioned my for some nsfw art over furaffinity :3

How it changed my life? I became furry, that's all :D

I know this one is a bit stale but I do wanna say that furry porn has allowed me to explore aspects of my sexuality and general preferences. It's also inspired me to not have shame in what I like, and inspired me to draw what I do today.

It gets me paid.

I think certain artists (especially argon vile, sometimes artdecade, probably some that don't start with "ar" but idk) helped me get over some anxiety about sex by depicting it in goofier and, like, low-stakes ways, if that makes sense. That's not really the right word but I'm not sure how to articulate it, it's not just everyone being horny at all times.

A suspicious amount of animal anatomy that i can never bring up in a normal conversation

It affected me in a negative way, I guess. I would always turn to this stuff due to my intense social anxiety. It has unfortunately kept me a virgin to this date in my mid 30s, and I don't like that outcome.

fliper said:
Has any adult artist changed your life in any way?

Yes, actually, in a very big way.

Years ago, my username was Erion. I got the chance to have my character (A Leafeon/Ninetales hybrid) drawn by Jeronmuh after winning a raffle. For the hell of it, I asked them if they could draw him as a female in a provocative pose. He was happy to oblige with my odd request.

Once I got the art back, and I looked at it, I realized I was trans.

It's not on the site, but it's the same pose as post #2386146 and I absolutely fell in love with the look, and started a path on figuring out who and what I want to be.

The most significant thing it's done is grow my interest in making games. But tbh I was sort of on that path already.

Aside from that, it's helped me figure out that I generally prefer drawn stuff over real (obviously) and my specific interests.

It may sound silly, but I've never been attracted to anything but drawn porn. I also love to draw it, and all the unique intricacies that come with furry specific porn opportunities! All these different penises I never even considered before now!

Also a lot of kinks/fetishes I would never do irl, but get to enjoy in drawn form! Many opportunities indeed.

timewolf said:
A suspicious amount of animal anatomy that i can never bring up in a normal conversation

wow uhh... yikes man

It made realized my sexual taste as well as giving me an opportunity to pursuit my real goals in life.

It gave me motivation to become an artist.
Also, it gives me energy to do things like studying, cleaning, and working out 'cuz I get so happy after looking at it.
It makes me feel upbeat and positive about life since I think sex/sexual stuff in and of itself is an awesome thing. And if it's kinky, all the better.
I became more outgoing and sociable after I started looking at porn. Although I guess it helped I was never socially awkward to begin with. Just wasn't sociable.
Porn has been nothing but a positive experience for me. I actually interact with people now. Not so much online though. I much prefer socializing in person.

thehuskyk9 said:
It ironically made me learn more about the human anatomy and how it works more than school has ever taught me, college included.

I concur.

I enjoy the community, and the whole aspect of escaping into other worlds than our own.
Our lives are often gloomy and desperate... sometimes this site and similar sites brings a smile on my face when very few things can.

Similar to a show like Monster Musume, the sexual material is the center piece of interest, but the way the story plays into the sexual topic is the thing that really keeps us engaged. If we take someone like Darius from LoL - although he is a human, if you drew him in a sexual situation; I would be more interested in him than some known person from our world. It's because it's a fantasy setting, and makes me think deeper than just the explicit acts. Suppose this is what truly makes me enjoy this website as much as I do.

Something I've also noticed is the social aspect. I have never been social or interested in human society, yet I'm drawn to these imaginary societies and people. I have not felt love or enjoyed touching anyone, but there is a distant whisper in my mind that tells me that a large part of this fact is my own bitterness towards our world.

And objectively, e621 increases the amount of creativity you as an artist can use - letting sexual topics be imagined and visualized can create unique art. Most notably having characters from media discuss sexual topics with each other is interesting, because you never see that side of them. It also opens up new forms of comedy.

So how has it changed my life? Well e621 is both short and long lasting dopamine. It acts as a porn site, but then does something more.

I guess for me, it's making me question my sexuality. I keep asking myself if I'm straight like I think I am or am I actually bi

A number of things that've already been mentioned by others here.

-went from straight to bi
-i feel a whole lot closer to pokemon than i was before
-certain knowledge about animal biology

waffleoftruth said:
certain knowledge about animal biology

Yes, we've done quite a lot of 'research' lol

It has been good for me, helps me disassociate from what I'm looking at. Regular porn is... eughh. Feels shameful for me to watch.

lonewolf36 said:
Yes, we've done quite a lot of 'research' lol

lol what can i say, i didn't ask for pokemon to lead me to the canine_pussy tag.

waffleoftruth said:
lol what can i say, i didn't ask for pokemon to lead me to the canine_pussy tag.

Ok lol, so we've fallen down a rabbit hole

• This image made me question my sexuality and become attracted towards femboys.
• I was curious how it would feel like to fuck a furry character, now I have seven furry-themed penetrable sex toys and prolly ruined any future sex life.
• I'm no longer ashamed of myself for having a foot-fetish after finding out that many people share my fetish, but I'm not going to shout about it from the rooftops either.
• Turned into a gooner (of sorts), checking e6 and other websites on a daily basis for a few minutes.
• I bought a tablet in 2017 and became a porn artist myself because I thought we were lacking in some pictures.
• Became good friends with a few people because I drew shitty doodles of their characters and sonas, putting those in silly scenarios. Still doing that from time to time.
• Can't look at Pokémon with the same innocence as before anymore.

Back in highschool me and this girl that I was friendzoning the fuck out of the previous year before she realized and moved on (we were still friends) were talking about how her and I started talking to each other because we both liked drawing furry/pony porn at the time and how another friend and I started talking because we both watched/read hentai and being friends with him got me a place in the magic the gathering group at launch (despite not playing myself) where I met other friends. We were basically just marveling at the irony that porn was a big catalyst for my social life, despite all the stereotypes that porn makes you an antisocial creep.

As it would turn out, she would shoot another shot with me in college and that time I cooperated. We had a very short 2 month fling in which I lost my virginity and was set down the path of realizing that I'm aromantic.

Besides that, discourse and double standards around sexuality and kink in art have been a huge motivator in the development of my own philosophical and ideological outlook. I think I'd be a much less self aware, open minded, and skeptical person if my own kinks, which I discovered through porn, had not forced me to choose between loving myself or hating myself for not conforming to society. It's greatly enhanced my understanding of other's as well as myself.

thelibertineyeen said:
Back in highschool me and this girl that I was friendzoning the fuck out of the previous year before she realized and moved on (we were still friends) were talking about how her and I started talking to each other because we both liked drawing furry/pony porn at the time and how another friend and I started talking because we both watched/read hentai and being friends with him got me a place in the magic the gathering group at launch (despite not playing myself) where I met other friends. We were basically just marveling at the irony that porn was a big catalyst for my social life, despite all the stereotypes that porn makes you an antisocial creep.

As it would turn out, she would shoot another shot with me in college and that time I cooperated. We had a very short 2 month fling in which I lost my virginity and was set down the path of realizing that I'm aromantic.

Besides that, discourse and double standards around sexuality and kink in art have been a huge motivator in the development of my own philosophical and ideological outlook. I think I'd be a much less self aware, open minded, and skeptical person if my own kinks, which I discovered through porn, had not forced me to choose between loving myself or hating myself for not conforming to society. It's greatly enhanced my understanding of other's as well as myself.

I'd love to meet women who are into this stuff like me so I wouldn't feel like a freak lol

I'd say that I was exposed to drawn porn way earlier than I was supposed to due to a Youtuber mentioning art drama and going to check out the artist.

As a result, I think it has permanently changed me in a way that has me struggling to fit in IRL. I won't deny that I have an addiction to it and that addiction makes me feel like I am not "normal" enough to fit in in physical spaces. I used to have legitimate online friendships that sprout for a shared love of drawn porn, but they're gone now and I'm just stagnating socially.

Though, do I wish I wasn't exposed as early as I was? No, not really. Those friendships I did have were honestly some of the best peeps I've known.

Furry porn has made me more understanding and accepting as a person. By understanding why certain kinks exist I understand that I wouldn't ever want to kink shame someone for what they like to look at. We're furry porn enthusiasts not moral warriors is what a lot of people forget imo.

While other people writes a positive comments, unfortunately in my case i cannot say the same stuff, this and few other things on the internet ruined my life completely in many ways, and here's the consequences:

1. i turned into trans with extreme dysphoria, and the worst part is that even other trans people and lgbt community in general is unable to understand my struggles, because unlike them i'm trans not because i feel myself as something else, but because i simply want to have what someone else got but not me, due to how nature decided to give something to them but not to me, and hormonal therapy with surgeries cannot get rid of this problem in my case (some people would call me a transphobe for this, because it's not allowed to bring biology in this topic, but my problem is directly related to this), because my dysphoria is caused by the fact that i will never be able to get woman's sensitivity and ability to experience a female orgasm, yes, that's exactly what destroyed me mentally, ruined my life and turned me into hopeless trans, no amounts of hormonal therapy or surgeries can give you that! and i'm unable to comprehend how other men are completely fine with that and moreover some of them has a relationship and they're even happy to serve as a tool for a women's pleasure

2. i'm no longer able to be with anyone because their mere existence triggers my dysphoria and envy and reminds me about what i will never be able to experience and what i will never get

3. i'm no longer able to get out of my home and be seen by anyone, i can't stand other people seeing my body and my face

4. i've turned into hopeless nihilist, where's nihilism became my only available copium to live with dysphoria and complete loneliness, basically every time i feel myself bad about anything i just tell myself "everyone will die and they will lose all that stuff they have at the moment, so why envy them? they're in the same boat as you", and in some way it's actually helps, but it made me unable to be motivated about anything in this life, because, well, nihilism, you can't convince yourself that anything is worth doing/trying/pursue in this life and you're not interested about anything anymore, the only thing that you care about now is not to die (because i don't want to experience eternal non-existence despite being sad and in pain 24/7)

Of course that's not the pornography itself that is at fault for this, pornography just provided me with some bits of information that sparkled my curiosity and i learned about everything by reading a lot of stuff about this, which i of course regret, better live peacefully in ignorance rather than knowing the truth and suffering

I apologize if my reply violated some rule of this site, tell me and i will erase/change that part or will delete my reply

nlingarpchto said:
While other people writes a positive comments, unfortunately in my case i cannot say the same stuff, this and few other things on the internet ruined my life completely in many ways, and here's the consequences:

1. i turned into trans with extreme dysphoria, and the worst part is that even other trans people and lgbt community in general is unable to understand my struggles, because unlike them i'm trans not because i feel myself as something else, but because i simply want to have what someone else got but not me, due to how nature decided to give something to them but not to me, and hormonal therapy with surgeries cannot get rid of this problem in my case (some people would call me a transphobe for this, because it's not allowed to bring biology in this topic, but my problem is directly related to this), because my dysphoria is caused by the fact that i will never be able to get woman's sensitivity and ability to experience a female orgasm, yes, that's exactly what destroyed me mentally, ruined my life and turned me into hopeless trans, no amounts of hormonal therapy or surgeries can give you that! and i'm unable to comprehend how other men are completely fine with that and moreover some of them has a relationship and they're even happy to serve as a tool for a women's pleasure

2. i'm no longer able to be with anyone because their mere existence triggers my dysphoria and envy and reminds me about what i will never be able to experience and what i will never get

3. i'm no longer able to get out of my home and be seen by anyone, i can't stand other people seeing my body and my face

4. i've turned into hopeless nihilist, where's nihilism became my only available copium to live with dysphoria and complete loneliness, basically every time i feel myself bad about anything i just tell myself "everyone will die and they will lose all that stuff they have at the moment, so why envy them? they're in the same boat as you", and in some way it's actually helps, but it made me unable to be motivated about anything in this life, because, well, nihilism, you can't convince yourself that anything is worth doing/trying/pursue in this life and you're not interested about anything anymore, the only thing that you care about now is not to die (because i don't want to experience eternal non-existence despite being sad and in pain 24/7)

Of course that's not the pornography itself that is at fault for this, pornography just provided me with some bits of information that sparkled my curiosity and i learned about everything by reading a lot of stuff about this, which i of course regret, better live peacefully in ignorance rather than knowing the truth and suffering

I apologize if my reply violated some rule of this site, tell me and i will erase/change that part or will delete my reply

When you question "are other men are completely fine with that", you are not wrong to ask that. I myself have some level of envy towards the "female" sexual experience. In fact, it would be weird for someone to not feel envious about something in a piece of media they consume a lot.

Though I think it will help you a bit to think about this more as an "elevated" orgasm. In fiction (and definitely in real world nature too, including other galaxies) there exists places like the Syuro verse where females seem to be almost a lower lifeform. I know you are struggling with real life on earth, and as an otherkin individual I understand what you're going through in regards to not being satisfied with your physical body. My relationships with people have always been lacking physical connection due to my disinterest in both the human body and society as a whole. It is something I have accepted over the years.

The thing has keeps me from falling into the pits of nihilism (I am an absurdist instead) is partly thanks to luck. I'm not gonna pretend there is an obvious answer for you. When I was about 14, I discovered something in life that gave me a feeling of "true" joy. This is a feeling that no amount of pleasure or pain can quantify. Ever since then, my life has been full of motivation and self-acceptance. Not that life is easy by any means, but this event very much keeps me from having a nihlistic outlook on things, and envy is an afterthought. I see my body as a blob of stardust, not as a "cool" or "cute" human as most people see each other as, and that to me is fine - not ideal, but fine.

I am not a therapist, so all I can do is share my perspective, but my general theory is that your real problem is not envy or idealism, the real problem is that you don't have a goal/meaning in life. Mine is mostly to play/create obscure video games and listen to silly music. The path to being content with life is different for everyone. Hopefully you feel content someday, and don't let other people tell you what you should be feeling.

Furry porn has a degree with fantasy to it that allows for it to be far less of an issue imho. I far more enjoy seeing anthros in similar situations you'd see humans in, and it's mostly because anthros aren't human, and have more interesting traits. I also just dislike how "real porn" is normally rather degrading, while a lot of the comics made by furry porn artists tend to lean into situations that make it more impactful for the sex to finally happen.

Well, it made me develop a very... socially unacceptable special interest that has endured for years without letting up. Adult art, specifically fetish art, is so cool and interesting to me. I enjoy looking at it as art. I love seeing new kinks I've never heard of before. I love fetish worldbuilding and character design. I love how unapologetically weird fetish art can be and I love knowing that each piece was only made because someone had a really particular idea and wanted something that matches their particular taste.

It also gives me an outlet for my weirdness as well. I can just draw whatever I want and not worry about whether other people will think it's "Okay" or not.

As for 'why furries?' I don't like looking at humans in media, and creatures have so many more interesting designs and anatomies than humans/humanoids.

It made me better at sex.
I don't know how to explain that, nor anything I know. However, that is because I am a bad explainer and no one understands when I explain.

Apart from that a lot of how porn has affected me is making me extremely broad-minded, or at the least, providing the kind of environment to allow me to be.
It's probably also something to do with watching every OSP video and all the history channels and trying to understand the lyrics of the songs I listen to.

Now I'm wondering if I could just... figure out a way to transmit that knowledge in a way that gives the understanding...

I made many of my best friends through Poképorn and being a Poképorn artist. Not even kidding. And they say this stuff is bad for you! Funny. The overall experience has been very freeing and fulfilling. I was inspired to draw a lot by InsomniacOverlrd and DAGASI. I never knew either of them but their work has certainly touched me.

Though, it's also (sort of?) caused one of my greatest struggles: the overwhelming need to achieve artistic excellence after Nintendo nuked a bunch of the artists I looked up to. I wanna be as good as them someday and that's given me a lot of feelings of insufficiency that just don't go away.

i guess yiff did change my life in some way, but i don't remember enough from back then to compare my current self with my past self and form a conclusion. watching real porn used to make me sick, aka post nut regret. i quit porn until i found yiff, which was much more arousing to my tiny brain than porn. i guess the only change is the fact that i've spent like 8 years of my life wacking it to yiff instead of doing it all by myself while staring at a wall.

To me art is a far better mean to express the sheer complexity of human experience.

When I watch a porn flick(not anymore lol) it's naturalistic in it's presentation. Two people, physical stuff and nothing more. I can't really know what they feel, what does it mean to them and so on. Oh and the authenticity is not really there either because they are actors or, if it's an amateur porn, the mere presence of a camera makes it so the dudes can't fully get into an act (lovemaking act not acting). So, i think, that, to somehow present what sexy stuff is all about you need more than just a sexy sight and here the art comes into role.

When it's drawn you can, for example, easily convey the mood of the encounter, something that is felt between people in an exact moment.
There is no problem with it being inauthentic. Here you can have guys fully into each other without a care in the world and no cameraman that needs them to move so he can film the D better.
And there are also all these feelings, something that art excels at. It makes me feel things I don't even know the name for but they are there.

You can probably easily find more examples of how art shows things that cannot just be seen.

So i think that porn(normal kind) is some simplified not completed picture and a drawing is something much more closer to reality because I strongly believe, well not really believe, I'm pretty sure that what we see and feel(in an empirical sense) is not all there is to the world and that is not something that we can see simply filming things as they appear.

And well i guess that's how it changed my life, you could say, by helping me realize just how much there's to all that and that's some solid sex education. If all I've ever watched was cheap porn it could end in me not fully appreciating the experience, not fully realizing how much it means beyond just the physical stuff and that could have some not nice consequences when i first get with someone.

It's either saved my life or irreparably destroyed it. I have holes in my brain either way so who's to say whether or not I would've found some other hyperfixation to absorb me like cartoon animal-person pornography has

I'm far too repressed to be anything more than an observer but I enjoy the unrestrained fantastical indulgence of it and it's played a part in helping me be a little more open-minded and less of a prude in general - though I probably would've ended up that way regardless, I feel