Hi! I thought I'd start off here by sharing the first sucky customer I got when I started my business. I make costumes for a living, and I specialize in making mascot suits, so I'm inevitably very involved with the "furry" fandom.
Now contrary to what certain sensationalist TV shows, and certain people on the internet will tell you, the vast majority of furries aren't particularly interested in freaky mascot sex. I've been to quite a few furry conventions and I have yet to see anything that even vaguely resembles that CSI episode. In fact most of my customers are the nicest people you could imagine, and some of them have become good friends.
BUT! There are always those few that give any group a bad reputation, and when I'd been doing this for just a few months, back in 2004 when I'd never even heard of the idea that somebody would want to do kinky things in big furry costumes (ah, the innocence of youth!) I had the following conversation with a would-be customer by IM
Me: Hi! You messaged me earlier about getting a costume?
Freak: Yes. I really want to have a lion.
Me: Cool. I can do that for you. Do you have a specific design in mind, or just a generic "lion"?
Freak: Just a lion, but I want it "modified."
Me: Modified?
Freak: Yeah, you know, "modified."
Me: (thinking, No, I don't know!) I'm afraid I don't understand. What do you mean by "modified"?
Freak: Just.... modified! You know!
Me: I'm afraid I don't know, sorry.
The freaky freak then sends me a photo. And I, poor innocent that I was, accepted it. And then instantly shut the viewer and deleted it. My eyes will NEVER be the same again! I needed about twenty gallons of
after that. OMG.
Me: No, I can't make you a "modified" suit. *blocks freak, goes to take a shower and scrub everything about a million times*
I was seriously squicked out at the time, but now it makes me laugh so hard. He couldn't bring himself to type "modified so I can have sex in it" and yet he could send me an explicit photo of people having sex? WTF?
Now contrary to what certain sensationalist TV shows, and certain people on the internet will tell you, the vast majority of furries aren't particularly interested in freaky mascot sex. I've been to quite a few furry conventions and I have yet to see anything that even vaguely resembles that CSI episode. In fact most of my customers are the nicest people you could imagine, and some of them have become good friends.
BUT! There are always those few that give any group a bad reputation, and when I'd been doing this for just a few months, back in 2004 when I'd never even heard of the idea that somebody would want to do kinky things in big furry costumes (ah, the innocence of youth!) I had the following conversation with a would-be customer by IM
Me: Hi! You messaged me earlier about getting a costume?
Freak: Yes. I really want to have a lion.
Me: Cool. I can do that for you. Do you have a specific design in mind, or just a generic "lion"?
Freak: Just a lion, but I want it "modified."
Me: Modified?
Freak: Yeah, you know, "modified."
Me: (thinking, No, I don't know!) I'm afraid I don't understand. What do you mean by "modified"?
Freak: Just.... modified! You know!
Me: I'm afraid I don't know, sorry.
The freaky freak then sends me a photo. And I, poor innocent that I was, accepted it. And then instantly shut the viewer and deleted it. My eyes will NEVER be the same again! I needed about twenty gallons of

Me: No, I can't make you a "modified" suit. *blocks freak, goes to take a shower and scrub everything about a million times*
I was seriously squicked out at the time, but now it makes me laugh so hard. He couldn't bring himself to type "modified so I can have sex in it" and yet he could send me an explicit photo of people having sex? WTF?
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