If you consider yourself a teratophile, then you are a teratophile and you are welcome here ♡
I like Wikipedia’s breakdown of mythic humanoids into four categories: human skinned(pass unnoticed in human society), monster skinned(scales/claws/fangs/etc), monstrous(clearly inhuman), and temporary form humans(can assume human shape).
You’re no less a teratophile for preferring more human-shaped monsters, and anyone telling you otherwise can miss me with that gatekeeping bullshit.
You can like open-palm spanking without being into getting caned until you bleed, and still say you like spanking and impact play. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.