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Dark Horseman · 07-01-2015

@brandygang Yeah, regarding the tg or bimbo transformations, almost every single submission has them enjoying it or wanting sex profusely. This is actually extremely unrealistic unless the character already identifies as pre-transgender, and even then, the vast majority of real transgendered don't choose to change for sexual reasons. This was brought to my attention recently when I wanted to see how DNA Extreme (the kickstarter tg game) was doing on Steam and was mind blown after reading the reviews: Real transgendered people bought the game thinking it would demonstrate the social stigma associated with being transgender and lambasted the game for treating the issue as just fetish material. Since then, any tg material I come across seems completely immersion-breaking if the characters simply have no inner turmoil and rejoices over it while other characters act like it's no big deal. It's like pizza-guy porn plot now; can still be good with hot actors but silly and forgettable.

@jolem On the contrary, I prefer my transformations 75% animal for some species. A tf into a dragon or horse, for example, should have the victim on all fours but you should still be able to link them to the original character somehow: human traits, hair, eye color, something that can make that picture stand alone and let people know who it is; otherwise it's just some random animal someone drew.

And as for the furry-hate, that may be due to the uncanny-valley issue: they look too close to human but not enough and it turns people off (in contrast to animal/monster women in games/media who are just chicks wearing slutty cosplay). But I'm sure anthro is the preferred for species like werewolves, catgirls, and such because that's how they're actually represented in mainstream media. When it's a walking horse, fox, or bird, I think people start to get weirded out. And it might just be because they have a distaste for furry-fandom that they have a knee-jerk reaction to it; that's what I learned about the audience in 4-chan who are vehement furry-haters. Personally I feel furries supply like 90% of animal TF art anyway, so hating them while having a tf fetish is contradictory.

07-01-2015	#31
Dark Horseman Lazy Bum Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 86	Re: TF Psychoanalytic Discussion @brandygang Yeah, regarding the tg or bimbo transformations, almost every single submission has them enjoying it or wanting sex profusely. This is actually extremely unrealistic unless the character already identifies as pre-transgender, and even then, the vast majority of real transgendered don't choose to change for sexual reasons. This was brought to my attention recently when I wanted to see how DNA Extreme (the kickstarter tg game) was doing on Steam and was mind blown after reading the reviews: Real transgendered people bought the game thinking it would demonstrate the social stigma associated with being transgender and lambasted the game for treating the issue as just fetish material. Since then, any tg material I come across seems completely immersion-breaking if the characters simply have no inner turmoil and rejoices over it while other characters act like it's no big deal. It's like pizza-guy porn plot now; can still be good with hot actors but silly and forgettable. @jolem On the contrary, I prefer my transformations 75% animal for some species. A tf into a dragon or horse, for example, should have the victim on all fours but you should still be able to link them to the original character somehow: human traits, hair, eye color, something that can make that picture stand alone and let people know who it is; otherwise it's just some random animal someone drew. And as for the furry-hate, that may be due to the uncanny-valley issue: they look too close to human but not enough and it turns people off (in contrast to animal/monster women in games/media who are just chicks wearing slutty cosplay). But I'm sure anthro is the preferred for species like werewolves, catgirls, and such because that's how they're actually represented in mainstream media. When it's a walking horse, fox, or bird, I think people start to get weirded out. And it might just be because they have a distaste for furry-fandom that they have a knee-jerk reaction to it; that's what I learned about the audience in 4-chan who are vehement furry-haters. Personally I feel furries supply like 90% of animal TF art anyway, so hating them while having a tf fetish is contradictory.