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Well it's an interesting idea. People already are animals just as giraffes or elephants, we're just a different species - but still we are part of the Animal kingdom. So in a way, people ARE furry from birth, in having intrinsic animal-like qualities.
With furry-dom, you don an exaggerated physical costume with outsized features like large eyes and big teeth - rather than just developing into a furry from within. As you said, it's fun to leave your human identity behind and be something else for awhile, as we do with dress up at halloween or masquerade balls (do they really have those anymore?).
It's odd that most furry costumes basically look alike - I mean, basically with big eyes and ears and big mouths. Are those features we find attractive in other guys? I mean they look less like real life animals and more like cartoon variations - like you'd find in japanese anime versions of gay animals.
In a way, being a furry is kind of embracing the true animal aspects of human nature and human sexuality, but enlarged into a cartoonish exaggeration. I find it very interesting and if I were younger and had the time, it's something I would probably be into. It looks like fun - except aren't the costumes kind of hot after awhile?
Maybe so, I mean in my case the draw isn't so deep I'd commit to being a furry for certain - in my case, I'd have to actively make that choice. And again, I'd have to choose to spend the $$ to afford a costume!
Yeah the furry costumes ARE adorable but seem so unwieldy, I'm not sure how anyone sees out of them or can even find their way around. And I know myself, I'd be sweating all the time if I had one of those things on. Not a very attractive prospect. I guess you really have to feel that commitment to it from within.