diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 01218754192..96329f0df44 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -969,6 +969,19 @@ Description
       ``"l"``, ...) to use as an upper limit.
 
 
+extractor.furaffinity.descriptions
+----------------------------------
+Type
+    ``string``
+Default
+    ``"text"``
+Description
+    Controls the format of ``description`` metadata fields.
+
+    * ``"text"``: Plain text with HTML tags removed
+    * ``"html"``: Raw HTML content
+
+
 extractor.furaffinity.include
 -----------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/furaffinity.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/furaffinity.py
index 752cd627acf..df5a73e26fd 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/furaffinity.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/furaffinity.py
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ def __init__(self, match):
         self.user = match.group(1)
         self.offset = 0
 
+        if self.config("descriptions") == "html":
+            self._process_description = lambda x: x.strip()
+
     def items(self):
         metadata = self.metadata()
         for post_id in util.advance(self.posts(), self.offset):
@@ -83,8 +86,8 @@ def _parse_post(self, post_id):
         if tags:
             # new site layout
             data["tags"] = text.split_html(tags)
-            data["description"] = text.unescape(rh(extr(
-                'class="section-body">', '</div>'), "", ""))
+            data["description"] = self._process_description(extr(
+                'class="section-body">', '</div>'))
             data["views"] = pi(rh(extr('class="views">', '</span>')))
             data["favorites"] = pi(rh(extr('class="favorites">', '</span>')))
             data["comments"] = pi(rh(extr('class="comments">', '</span>')))
@@ -109,12 +112,16 @@ def _parse_post(self, post_id):
             data["tags"] = text.split_html(extr(
                 'id="keywords">', '</div>'))[::2]
             data["rating"] = extr('<img alt="', ' ')
-            data["description"] = text.unescape(text.remove_html(extr(
-                "</table>", "</table>"), "", ""))
+            data["description"] = self._process_description(extr(
+                "</table>", "</table>"))
         data["date"] = text.parse_timestamp(data["filename"].partition(".")[0])
 
         return data
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _process_description(description):
+        return text.unescape(text.remove_html(description, "", ""))
+
     def _pagination(self):
         num = 1