I think this begs the question of if it's confined to this site, or if the "issue" pervades the "community" at large. Probably hard to detangle.
I know it's been a few weeks but I figured I may as well respond to this point.
I have been to a lot of different zoophile website presences in the past few years, and this one is definitely much more hypersexualized than any of the other ones I have seen. This site has a bad reputation among many other groups of zoophiles. Even groups of zoophiles who disagree with eachother on a lot of other points will usually agree that ZooVille is not representative of the broader zoo community.
As far as other forums go:
- The Zoo Community forum denounces most of what is found in this place. That is to be expected, as they are a PG-13 community that focuses more on the relational aspect.
- The Zoocadia forum was created in part to escape the sex-addiction found on Zooville so more 'modest' users could have conversations in peace. People commonly make jokes over there about "pornhounds" coming from Zooville and finding out there's no porn.
- The Zoo Writers' Guild forum is very much unlike this place and is far more text-oriented than porn-oriented. There are a lot of old-guard zoos there because that forum has been around longer than this one.
A lot of zoo media outlets denounce this place too:
- The Zooier than Thou podcast used to support Zooville, but they had a falling out with the former administrator and became disenchanted with the site. They now see it as a harmful presence in the zoo community due to the attitudes about human-animal relationships fostered here.
- The Bestia Amore podcast's main host railed against this site for violation of the Zeta Principles, and even made a few videos exposing it. BAPC and ZooTT disagreed on mostly everything, so the fact that they agreed on this point should tell you something.
- The zoo magazine, Zooey Dot Pub, definitely has some tensions with this site which it brought up during an interview with Z T Horse in one of its articles. The ZDP discord server, now defunct, was also PG-13 oriented and the articles of their magazine give a much different interpretation of what zoophilia is than is found here.
The atmosphere in zoo groups on social media is nothing like it is here:
- The zoophile community of Twitter and Mastodon (made mostly of the same people) is very much against this website. The name of Zooville is commonly invoked as a prime example of what not to be. As many gripes as I have with the Zeta community of social media, I can see their points here. The word "fetishist" is used almost like a slur on zoo Twitter. Also, most people on zoo twitter do/support activism to show that zoophilia isn't "bad"; you can see how this would run totally contrary to the general attitude toward zoophilia here, which sees it as degrading/shameful. People on these sites frequently have a much higher view of animals than they do here.
- Zoo communities on Discord frequently disallow sexual discussions and focus more on conversations and offering a sense of community between zoophiles. They commonly repeat the theme that sex should only be one aspect of the relationship and should not dominate it. They also reject the idea that zoophilia is a "kink", calling it an orientation, and believe strongly that treating zoophilia as nothing more than a fetish is degradant of zoophiles and of animals.
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