How come older people like to act like furries are this outlandish idea but the thought of being with a mermaid has been around a lot longer

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Because people didn't dress up as mermaids and go to cons and express how deep down inside they truly are a mermaid, and have a high likelihood of fucking someone else who also felt the same way.

Not all furries believe themselves to be or want to be animals. It's a simple interest in anthropomorphic animal art. You're thinking of therians.

I don't think many people had "a thing" for mermaids though. It was just another human creature with boobs. I don't think most people thought about it any deeper than that

Not to be confused with therians, a taxonomic group.

Uh... I hate to tell you this but people absolutely dress as mermaids and do conventions... There's a whole home industry of people who make custom silicon tails.

https://aquamermaid.com/blogs/news/mermaid-convention?srsltid=AfmBOoofN82kC8kQ_774E8rKcE1-Mi9CBZXEfvIqLckEK1cq7bXWHFum

https://www.themernation.com/silicone-tail

didn't

Past tense.

Dunno what to tell yeh mate, it's about as oldif not older than Furry culture. Weeki Watchee springs started a whole thing with their Mermaid shows and the subculture basically took off from like the early 60's... And was probably about as horny as a lot of other subcultures that started around the same time.

I happened to be staying in Key West at the same time as a convention. There absolutely are people who believe they are mermaids.