Hello and welcome to the community for exophiles! The Wikipedia definition for the word can already be found from the community description but let's go over it again.

Exophilia is the love of strange, new, extraterrestrial, robotic, supernatural, or otherwise non-human life-forms.

The reason we made a decision to create a community for exophiles instead of the more common term teratophiles is because of teratophilia's definition as attraction to monstrous or deformed people, which creates potential for fetishizing real, living human beings, something that we are very much not okay with.

Our aim is to be an inclusive community for everyone, to create and to share, but also to just have conversations, so we have room for monsters of all shapes and sizes, humanoid and non-humanoid, mechanical and biological. Furry and scalie are absolutely okay, as are gijinkas. Just as long as it's not human. Make sure those kemonomimi's are real ears instead of headband on a human and we're all golden.

We do have a few hard rules though (Last updated 25/12/18):

• This community is open for NSFW content, conversation, art and writing alike. Just make sure it's your own content or content you have a permission to share if it's something creative.
• LGBTQIA+ and Queer positive!
• Exophiles is 18+ community. That means both you, the member, and also the characters on the content you share need to be legally adults. We are uncomfortable with child-like characters here so even if they are an ancient being with age listed as 1459 on paper but they look 10, then they are a child to us and will be removed.
• Breaking any of these rules will result in a strike. 3 strikes will result in a ban. Moderation can ban anyone even without strikes depending on the situation and context.
• No noncon! No animals! Basically just make sure everyone in your content is sapient and able to do informed consent. Noncon/dubcon RP is okay as long as you make the context clear in the description/tags.
• Harassment, hate, and unwanted criticism will get you striked/banned. Unless specifically asked assume people don't want crit.
• We allow wide variety of kinks so tag your content appropriately and with consideration to other people. If unsure then we prefer you lean more on the side of tagging liberally.
• That also means you are solely responsible for blacklisting content you personally don't want to see.
• You can use teratophilia as a tag because we do understand it's the likeliest search term to get your content seen, but we ask that you do not use it in comments and conversation unless necessary.

That's about it for now. We will add to or edit these rules as necessary.