fandomhigh | NNSE, Monday, Period 1 [Dec 3]

"Good morning, class," Lulu began, her smile bright this morning. "I must say, your papers from last week were certainly an interesting read; you'll get them back, with marks, next class. Today, we're going to talk about something that will likely embarrass most of you more than anything else has in the class so far. Our topic today is BDSM and furries.

"You may ask why I'm bringing these up in class," she continued, pacing across the front of the room as she spoke. "In fact, these are two of the closest-to-mainstream 'alternative sexual practices' -- and both are viewed by mainstream society with a great deal of prejudice and misconception." She discussed briefly the ideas of BDSM and furry, outlining the briefly ideas that some people find pleasure from giving or receiving pain, and that others have involved fantasies, sexual or otherwise, involving anthropomorphic animals. "What I'd like you to do today is consider your first reactions to both BDSM -- especially the ideas of sadism/masochism and bondage/discipline -- and the idea of furries, and write a short paper about those reactions."

Lulu waited until the end of class, and then collected the papers. "For the first time," she said, "you're going to have homework in this class; for next Monday, I would like you each to read these articles I have for you." She brought out the two articles, placing them at the front of the room. "After reading them, I'd like you to consider your initial reactions, about which you wrote today, and write another paper in response to it with your new knowledge.

"Also," she added, as the class collected the articles, "I would like to invite you along today on Professor Rogers' trip to the National Gallery of Art, which I am helping to chaperone; we are leaving at lunch, so if your afternoon is free and you wish to come along, you may do so, although it is purely voluntary, and there will be no extra credit given for coming."

[NSFW as always, ~~please wait for~~ OCD is up!]

ETA: I rewrote an early section of the lecture regarding the term paraphilia, because I was a little misled in my understanding of the word. That's what you get for skimming a wiki article. ^^;; Class is now with less doom'n'gloom!

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With your furry species!

T.R. Wexler...

....Turtle. DUH.

River Tam. Owl

Katara.

Huh?

Anemone. Coralian.

Rikku. Whose fursona would be a Pokemon. No, seriously.

Sokka, who, like all Water Tribe warriors, is, of course, a turkey.

Yamanaka Ino. *facepalms* Wild boar.

Ron Weasley... Rabbit.

Gavin Darklighter. Teddy bear.

Marco. Whatever he felt like that day.

Haku, totally a white rabbit.

Inara Serra, Ocelot

Anne Shirley, magpie

Jack Burton, ~~Hawk~~....what?

Jo Havelle, ~~fluffy little retriever puppy~~ wolf.

Lulu's perfectly okay with people being boggled and uncomfortable today, and expects rather a lot of whispering.

Turtle's forehead was against her desk, with light, repetitive thunking. Anything to get out of her head that whole ordeal with Jeff and all the fur and, oh, dear Lord, she kind of hated this class right now.

Anemone wasn't boggled, or even visibly uncomfortable. She simply sat quietly at her desk, hands in her lap, not even taking notes or doodling.

River couldn't help thinking that she would find the furry costumes being in the way, but then that might just be because that wasn't her inclination.

Rikku was very confused, right now. People liked pain? But pain hurt. Wasn't that the whole definition of it right there?

The furry thing just made her wonder if Ronsos ever dated humans, and if there weren't Ronsos in this world, wasn't it all a moot point? Oh. They dressed up. Well, if there weren't Ronsos, they'd have to, wouldn't they?

Sokka wasn't taking notes today. He was just staring.

Ino had her head buried in her arms and was trying really, really hard not to think about how this pain stuff totally applied to Kabuto and Orochimaru. She really didn't want to think about it. God no. Could this class be over yet?

Gavin's just going to stare and blink.

Oddly enough Haku was taking most of it in stride this time. Being around someone very violent growing up, BDSM didn't boggle him at all.

The furries, well, to each their own.

Inara did nicely with the BDSM discussion--it wasn't her cup of tea, but she understood that other people needed the extra stimulation. The Furries, however, left her dumbfounded.

Less whispering here, but if you need to you can talk a little.

Sokka's two main points were:

a) Pain is bad, and people who liked giving pain were psychotic, whereas people who liked receiving pain were just weird. But, you know, in a totally-accepting-of-their-lifestyle way. Also, girls who could beat him up were really hot.

b) Erotic fantasies involving anthropomorphic animals were SICK and WRONG, and were obviously the result of too much cartoon-watching, at least when he had them.

Anemone very neatly wrote her name and date at the top of the paper, taking care to use her best handwriting.

Then she stared at the paper for a moment, face still blank.

Restraints are not toys, she wrote, and sadism is not a game.

She then turned the paper over, very clearly finished.

Haku explained more on the BDSM, explaining on a point that if pain and or causing others pain were a regular part of you life, it isn't a large jump to have it as part of the sexual life either. Also, for those who feel them selves guilty for some reason may find it the only way to safely punish themselves for whatever they beleive their sins to be.

He put too much thought into that.

As for the furries, well Haku had known some really strange people back home, so people liking that sort of thing didn't surprise him.

Ino frowned at her paper before quickly scribbling down several paragraphs that could be summarized by the following:

1. I don't get why someone would want to get hurt during sex. Pain is bad, geez. And it's stupid to place yourself in harm's way for no reason. I don't get it.

2. Why?!

It wasn't the best paper she'd ever turned in, but already it was more thinking about the topic than she'd wanted to do.

When she pings in!

Here for the confuzzled pokings.

Here as usual, with the usual.

... This was a weird class to write. Although that article on furries is actually an interesting read -- as are all the comments, which you can assume are included with it.

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