“We have murrsuits for crying out loud! Stop kink-shaming! Down with puritan ideologies on sex!” And this is also true. If you’re concerned with cultivating a sex-positive environment where people can live out their sexual fantasies in a safe, sane, and consensual manner, you’re incentivized to insist that furry is a sexual thing. If you’re chiefly concerned with public image–especially when fursuiting in public, where kids can see–you’re incentivized to double down on the fact that the furry fandom is no more inherently sexual than anything else can be.
Instead, the question of whether or not the furry fandom is sexual becomes a bit of a Rorschach test for one’s cognitive biases. Humans are largely a sexual species, and sex is deeply ingrained in our culture (which can make life awkward for asexual people). The more you read about this topic, the more you’ll realize this question is inert.
