Dan Skunk wrote:
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> "Ben" <beno1990@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:g5rbev$ieu$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Dan Skunk wrote:
>>> Could just be a difference in culture, availability of furry media,
>>> ability to connect with other furries.
>>>
>>> Like if there's no internet, how would others know they were there?
>>>
>>> I think there's a lot more furries out there; they just don't know
>>> there's others with the same interest.
>>>
>>> "Ben" <beno1990@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:g5r0if$322$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Okay, so we probably all know that the USA has the overall largest
>>>> number of furries in the world. But what about other countries?
>>>> Well, the UK apparently has the largest density of furries in the
>>>> world (but not the largest number due to the smaller overall
>>>> population size compared to the USA). There are furries in just
>>>> about every country out there, and I've even seen one post from Iran
>>>> on a forum once (which surprised the heck out of me).
>>>>
>>>> However, some countries, even when talking about just Western
>>>> countries like the USA, Canada, UK, and the rest of Europe, have
>>>> significantly different numbers of furs. Why is that do we think?
>>>> Differing cultures, or something else?
>>>
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>> I was mostly focusing on Western countries, such as the difference in
>> numbers between the UK and USA.
>>
>> As I said in my OP, as a good example, the USA has the largest number
>> of furries in the world because of population size, while the UK has
>> the highest density of furries in the world.
>>
>> So why is it that in other Western countries, which all have roughly
>> equally liberal laws on accessing this kind of material, there are far
>> less furries, and most furry websites are dominated mostly by people
>> from the USA, Canada, and UK?
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> I really havn't noticed that, but perhaps, it we're talking about
> Europe, their more free and accepting culture represses people less
> giving them less need to seek out new ways of expressing themselves and
> escaping the pressures of society to conform.
But couldn't that also mean that they feel more free to express
themselves through the furry fandom?
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