Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says a state legislative staffer wanted to engage in sex acts with a teenage boy while dressed in a panda costume. Corbett says 40-year-old Alan David Berlin, of Carlisle, was charged Thursday with attempted sexual exploitation of children and related crimes. A Corbett spokesman says the boy’s parents alerted authorities after finding sexually graphic messages on his computer. He says agents found a wolf and cat-type costume in Berlin’s home.
The boy was 15 and Berlin, according to this report, proposed having panda sex with the boy in the boy’s backyard while his parents slept. If that didn’t work for the kid, Berlin told the boy that he would get him a hotel room if the boy had sex with another man and allowed Berlin to film it. Nice guy. The panda-identified Berlin used “furry” lingo in his emails to the boy—”yiffing” for fucking—but the spokesperson for the attorney general’s office made it clear the state didn’t have a problem with law-abiding furries:
“It’s one thing to be interested in the furry culture, it’s another thing to make arrangements to have sex with a teenage boy,” Frederiksen said.
Congrats, Furries, you’ve arrived.
Furries? Furry Culture? Never heard of such a thing until today.
You learn something new everyday.
Yiff in hell.
Nothing more detestable than furries.
@1: Furries & Yiffing — Two things never to put in your search bar. There are some things you probably don’t want to learn.
Why hate furries? They’re harmless — usually — and they create a reliable revenue stream for area dry cleaners.
Am I the only one who thought that that picture looked like a really fat Bill Gates??
I’m gonna sic my Wild Things on that guy.
Yeah, I don’t get all the furry hate either. As long as they aren’t yiffing me, or kids, or animals, who the fuck cares?
Being a Panda Furry is way to easy, the low hanging fruit of furrydom, c’mon at least get yourself a tailored pygmy jerboa or duckbilled platapus fursuit (fur Chrissakes)!!!
Did a representative for the attorney general’s office really just say that “it’s icky” isn’t a basis for making the law?
Well, no, he didn’t. That would be too adult for the simpletons of the public, and probably the prosecutor’s office as well.
What he actually said was, child rape trumps furry sex as far as the state is concerned. Not exactly encouraging words for furries.
I don’t know: I think furries “arrived” with that long Vanity Fair article and CSI episode.
Who lives in peace ‘neath the willow tree …. Sexual Harassment … Panda
“Congrats, Furries, you’ve arrived”
followed by…
“And Welcome Furries, to the Days Inn Akron- Kent – Brimfield Convention space; a mere 16 miles south of Sea World and 19 miles from Akron/Canton Airport. Enjoy your stay”
@11 Or, that MTV special.
Also, child rape is so not a 15 year old getting his kink on. On the other hand, the requests (hotel + sex with stranger, backyard sex) were kind of creepy. On the other other hand, backyard sex is hot.
I don’t get the whole “furry” thing. I’m sure most furries don’t try to seduce minors, and they don’t hurt anyone. Live and let live.
@1. I am almost positive I first heard about furries through one of Dan’s columns. So, welcome to the “learned about some crazy sex sub-culture from Dan Savage” club.
Well, you learn something new everyday.
I learned about furries from the dorms.
Berlin isn’t involved with the “War College,” is he?
@5 Not just dry cleaners, they have a huge conference every year here in Pittsburgh (featuring the same B-roll footage of a woman in a business suit walking down Liberty Avenue with a fox tail) and bring in big bucks to the local businesses. Speaking of, it should be coming up pretty soon, unless they moved dates or venues this year.
I cannot reliable tell how old someone is inside the suit.
There are colonges that make a old one, smell young.
There are ‘slight of hand’ techniques, that make the arm appear to still be in the suit, whilst actually stroking and gripping the old barbed cock. (not much of a ‘trick’ really.)
I say this guy is a child rapist with furry frosting.
they’re pretty hip, and all with the krunk jargon talk….stuff. it seems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWJgT5NT…
Seriously, somebody just needs to take that big bowl of Cheeto’s away from Bill Gates, stat.
Man, he’s really let himself go.
Homosexuals have ruined the Catholic Priesthood
and are trying to do the same to the
Republican Party.
@4 & @16: I realized as the thread went on that I probably had heard about them, but maybe not that term – nor the ‘lingo’ being used – then again that was before having coffee.
Caffeine makes understanding (or at least comprehension) possible.
@20: Cool that they are organized enough to have annual gatherings.
@25: WMCA, whurmuhcoffeeat.
fuuuuuccck. Republican furries are, in fact, the creepiest, most deranged people in the fandom. Now that they’re in state offices, too…
God damn it let me draw cartoons in peace, creepy republican child molesters and dogfckers.
@ 3: Zoophiliacs (into actual bestiality) – WAY worse than furries. Also, plushies are kinda freakier than furries = w/ furries, it’s like an extreme form of costume/roleplay for sex w/ other people. W/ plushies, they develop sexual relationships with stuffed animals..
Learned about all this & more on the comic book convention trail. So educational!
I never quite got one thing about furry sex – don’t they overheat? Most of those costumes are pretty, um, furry. I mean, what do they do, yiff in the walk-in freezer?
I forward the notion that Republican furries are creepy sacks of shit.
Exhibit A: RHjunior
http://rhjunior.livejournal.com/
Exhibit B: Jay Naylor
http://www.jaynaylor.com/
Jay draws some very pedo-ish comics, f’cked up a cute adult male character because he “feared gay male pedophiles” would get their rocks off on him, etc etc…
RHjunior insists gay children and gay teens don’t exist and we are just victims of the gays or “rationalizing” our feelings. because obviously they cannot be real….
There are many more, but those two are the most loud-mouthed that I can think of right now.
also # 5 I loled
Plushophiles and furries are the most derided of the fetish and fan/geek sectors, even more so than, say, slash-fic writers or coprophagists, though probably because no-one wants to even think of the latter of those.
Panda-boy put furries on the map, but they deserve better press.
When I read this the song “Teddy Bear Picnic” started running through my head and now it won’t stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_jNgirWe…
@20: First weekend of July, actually.
@30: Actually, Naylor’s a Libertarian. Libertarians have more in common with Republicans than people realize.
@31 Actually, furries get put on the map about once every couple of years or so. Almost nobody cares enough to remember it outside 4chan.
@33, I stand corrected. 🙂
I assumed based on his Writing/ Blog.
although now that I look at it, “Libertarian” is in the 10th post…
@31: I take offense to that! Slash-fic writers are way lower down on the creep scale than furries. Its just homo erotica. Nothing actually creepy about that.
A panda is a rather sad choice if you think about it. Pandas have a low libido, the male panda has a really really small penis and in general pandas are kind of infamous for their really lousy sex lives.
@34
In all fairness, it’s a pretty safe assumption. He’s just got some issues that occasionally make him hard to like, and on the surface it’s a pretty safe guess as a result. Trust me, I’ve met far worse and if I didn’t think it’d get his attention I’d name names.
wow, i can’t believe someone actually identified the fucked-up behavior correctly … for once. i’m impressed.
fannerz @36, don’t take offense to my using slash fic writers as a marker for deep-level geekdom; it’s not the topic (gay diegetic erotica) that makes it the abyssal plain of geekdom, it’s its ubiquity and source (young female, oft virginal writers), so it tends to run the same level of quality as girl/girl fiction written by males. (And note, I differentiate lesbian erotica from girl/girl fantasies.)
But case in point, a fanbase has to write a lot of Kirk/Spock erotica for that specific coupling to become associated with the slash.
Sturgeon’s law, 90% of everything is crap runs true through slash fic and furry fic as it does through the whole of fan fiction or even speculative fiction. Note the inferred corollary of this adage 10% of anything is really rather good. But there really is a lot of amateur slash.
My point was, though, that when comparing a given slash piece to a furry piece, the furry one loses points from the start just for involving anthropomorphs, not because it’s inherently of weaker quality, but because furs are considered geekier than slashers.
Oh! I’ve read that PANDA worked for a religious republican senator!
I wonder if this dude prefers blue cheese or ranch dressing on his bamboo salad?!