Was editing my comment on topic #27334 but it got locked before I could update it.
Sorry if this is considered spamming/trolling, but I'm intrigued and want to hear others' opinions about it.
Edited Comment
Oh boy, you're threading on very dangerous waters here. The more "opinions" you get here, the more likely this thread is gonna get locked.
Cub, as you have said, is a very polarised topic. Some like them, some don't, and then there's some that staunchly believe it should be erased from the face of the earth.
Now I'm assuming you're talking about the NSFW side of cub.
So let's see here - topic #26789, topic #18532, topic #18078 - there have been discussions about this before and you can probably find more similarities in discussions about loli and feral.
You need to first understand that any, if not, most kinks (or more accurately, paraphilia) that people see negatively are shunned by society in real life.
Human culture and social norms have already painted these ideas as "bad". Some countries outright ban porn in general.
With good reasons too, and that is to protect those in the real world (i.e. actual people/animals).
If somebody were to practice these ideas in real life, it can potentially harm real people/animals.
With drawn or fictitious pornography, the opinions diverge.
Arguments for is that such content do not inherently harm any people/animals in real life.
Arguments against, however, is that they have the potential of doing so (i.e. from people who are unhealthily obsessed and cannot control themselves in society/break the law). That's the basic reason behind the negativity.
As for why people like them?
Now don't quote me on this, but I believe that people can fancy such content is because of the relief they get from breaking these societal norms/taboos.
The same can be said for violent video games, we like playing Grand Theft Auto or violent video games because it arouses our senses.
Does that mean we would carry out these behaviours in real life? Not really. And that is because of the firewall that is called society & principles.
We have an obligation to society and to our own principles to not hurt others, and it is that firewall that stops us from committing crimes.
It is when such principles break and when society collapses, do we see the demons begin to roam the earth.
Please don't turn this into another cub topic, keep your discussions as to why you think you have developed your own fetishes.
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