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I disagree with Ramseys because I think we are looking at an oversimplification of how Slopverse denizens would react to the similarities between themselves and their nonsapient counterparts.
In our ape society, people have enough of a problem accepting the similarities between ourselves and other species of apes. In the Slopverse, I imagine that where such pressures as specieal stereotyping exist, people would want to distance or elevate themselves as far from their nonsapient counterparts to as great an extent as possible, including though perhaps not limited to fur dying and extreme body modification.
In more rural (or isolated) areas or in less speciesist societies, people might be less disgusted by the thought of being emotionally close to or imtimate with their nonsapient counterparts. In societies where people face greater pressure of speciesism and intolerance, the idea would probably disgust them because on a psychological level, taking a nonsapient as a sexual partner would lower oneself to the same level of the nonsapient. Religion... I'm not even going to touch on that, because I'm still not familiar with the details of religions in the Slopverse though I'd imagine that they would differer dramatically in some ways from our own.
This is based on my own observations of peer pressure, intolerance, paranoia, and insecurity in human societies. As opinions differ between human societies I would have to assume that it is the same in the Slopverse with greater diversity and scope between species, on a larger scale. I have not taken behavioural traits of nonsapient species (the ones we're familiar with) into consideration. The reactions of sapient versions of the species we're familiar with is of course a matter of complete conjecture.
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