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The men who live as dogs: 'We're just the same as any person on the high street'
The Guardian ^ | May 25, 2016 | Nell Frizzell

Posted on 05/25/2016 6:24:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020

It’s easy to laugh at a grown man in a rubber dog suit chewing on a squeaky toy. Maybe too easy, in fact, because to laugh is to dismiss it, denigrate it – ignore the fact that many of us have found comfort and joy in pretending to be animals at some point in our lives.

Secret Life of the Human Pups is a sympathetic look at the world of pup play, a movement that grew out of the BDSM community and has exploded in the last 15 years as the internet made it easier to reach out to likeminded people. While the pup community is a broad church, human pups tend to be male, gay, have an interest in dressing in leather, wear dog-like hoods, enjoy tactile interactions like stomach rubbing or ear tickling, play with toys, eat out of bowls and are often in a relationship with their human “handlers”.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: dog; furries; pup; pupcommunity; pupplay; pups; transspecies
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To: Chode

And we wondered what would be next. I really didn’t see this coming.


41 posted on 05/29/2016 8:00:16 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Trump20162020

But are they born that way?


42 posted on 05/29/2016 8:01:13 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012
one behind the ear and done...
43 posted on 05/29/2016 8:19:47 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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