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Matt Willemsen<p>Move over, Viagra — this spider's boner-inducing venom could treat people let down by the blue pill<br>Scientists say a synthetic compound derived from Brazilian wandering spider venom could treat people with erectile dysfunction for whom drugs like Viagra don't work.<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/move-over-viagra-this-spiders-boner-inducing-venom-could-treat-people-let-down-by-the-blue-pill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/health/medicin</span><span class="invisible">e-drugs/move-over-viagra-this-spiders-boner-inducing-venom-could-treat-people-let-down-by-the-blue-pill</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/viagra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viagra</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/erection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erection</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/erectile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erectile</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/dysfunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dysfunction</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/spider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spider</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/venom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>venom</span></a></p>
Joan of Cat (she/her) 😼<p>In conversation with an only mildly annoying, seemingly authentic anti-<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/shipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shipper</span></a> on <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>, the anti-shipper continued to focus, despite every attempt I made to make them see reason, on the individual parts of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/erotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erotic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/furry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>furry</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>.</p><p>Specifically, they thought it was weird for erotic furry <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a> to draw <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/knots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knots</span></a> (commonly understood as an <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/erectile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erectile</span></a> tissue structure on the penis of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/canid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canid</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a>, although weirdly, it's also present in some <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plant</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>species</span></a>), and obviously, if an <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> draws a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/knot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knot</span></a>, they must be attracted to <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/canines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canines</span></a>, from which the knot is imagined to have derived.</p><p>This is a weird reach, and I'm about to explain why.</p><p>Erotic furry art is, at its core, less concerned with parts as it is with behaviors. That is to say, the parts are considered simply to exist upon the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fursona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fursona</span></a> of the individual that carries it upon their <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/penis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>penis</span></a> in lieu of a human <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/glans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glans</span></a>. The intent of the artist is generally to draw their fursona (or a given <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/anthropomorphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropomorphic</span></a> non-<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animal</span></a> character) engaging in an <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/action" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>action</span></a>. If the action takes place with a second (or more) character(s), then all of these characters will likely share some characteristics with the animals from which the inspiration for the character derived.</p><p>Yet these characters are often depicted behaving in remarkably human ways, even as they use their very animal parts on one another. As most of us are aware, very few animals (aside from some primates and their relatives) engage in foreplay and kink, yet these are behaviors often seen in erotic furry art.</p><p>Still, anti-shippers will focus entirely on the presence of a knot at the exclusion of everything else. In this way, their criticisms are very much like the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/reactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reactionary</span></a>'s criticism of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Michelangelo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michelangelo</span></a>'s <em>David</em>, a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/statue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statue</span></a> created with the purpose of depicting the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/beauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beauty</span></a> of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/man" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>man</span></a>, and less with the intent of showcasing a neo-classical <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/dick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dick</span></a>. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> is <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/nude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nude</span></a>, yes, because the beauty of man would be hidden by clothes, obviously. But any reasonable person sees that statue and recognizes it as a work of art, not encouragement to go find dick of one's own to enjoy.</p><p>Only the conservative <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/reactionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reactionaries</span></a> focus on the singular part of David's flaccid dick and see <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/obscenity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obscenity</span></a>, and I propose that this is because they are themselves driven to see that obscenity by their own <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biases</span></a> and repressed <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/desires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desires</span></a>. In effect, the fact that they <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fetishize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fetishize</span></a> the penis is precisely why they can't see anything BUT the penis when looking at the statue of David (or any other piece of art that includes a penis for any reason).</p><p>I see the same kind of behavior motivating the criticism of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/zoophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoophilia</span></a> levied against erotic furry artists by the anti-shipper community. When the knot is not prominently displayed, the intent is often simply to draw <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a>-making between two or more individuals seeking only pleasure among themselves. When the knot IS prominent, it serves as a metaphor for <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/domination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domination</span></a>, wherein the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bottom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bottom</span></a> is bonded or otherwise held in place, at the mercy of the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/top" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>top</span></a>, in a position of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/submission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>submission</span></a> to the latter.</p><p>But when the anti-shipper views this form of artwork and only sees the desire to <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/rape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rape</span></a> living non-human animals, could it be that they're seeing some hidden meaning within the work? Could it be that Michelangelo wanted us all to seek and bounce upon dick, flaccid or not? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> and other forms of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/visual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visual</span></a> art are inimitably <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/subjective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subjective</span></a> and their <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/interpretations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interpretations</span></a> are greatly informed by the viewer's <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/subconscious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subconscious</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a>.</p><p>So when an anti-shipper sees a knot and thinks, "this is about wanting to have <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a> with <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a>," I find myself wondering if this is a desire that the anti-shipper is <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/repressing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repressing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/projecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>projecting</span></a> onto an artist that does not share that interest at all. Normal people don't see erotic furry art and think "the artist wants me to go rape an animal." And I think that's telling.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/antiShip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiShip</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/antiShippers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiShippers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/zoophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoophilia</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/furryFandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>furryFandom</span></a></p>
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