People who read a lot of books often enjoy the occasional smut. People who watch anime are probably more likely to watch hentai. It's not really surprising that people's passions and hobbies leak into their choice of pornography.

What in the useless statistics Batman? So because a large percentage of people who identify as furries have viewed (not actively view, not prefer, quite simply ~have~ viewed) furry pornography, the entire furry community must be a sex thing? That misses more than a few possibilities. Fuck, I've seen gay porn, and I'm not gay. As far as "learning something sexual about someone", unless you're calling learning someone has a fursona learning something sexual about them, this whole thing is a non-sequiter based entirely on anecdotal experience.

There's some self selecting bias there, going to a 'furry convention' is a rather steeper level of engagement than just, say, looking at a webcomic featuring art like this mascot here.

Those more hard core sexual furries scare off casual furries as well as folks a bit timid about being associated with the most... Forthcoming portion of the fandom.

It's rough on some as they want to engage without sexual interest in the aesthetic, but as a result get grouped in with those with a sexual interest. They want to identify as something, and furry is closest, but they aren't into the sexual facet and struggle with that broad association.

You know what they say about personal experiences pertaining to a group. It's 100% translatable to the entire group. Yup. That's what they say. Even so far to remove the asexual from a furry because I guess being a furry is so sexual that it must trump sexuality.

Wild take. Bonkers even.

Perhaps you might examine the various way in which queer people in general have been marginalized by labelling all their activities as obscene and sexual. For example, you might take the example of teachers in Florida who are in a same-sex marriage being prohibited from mentioning their marriage lest they be sanctioned for sexual content, while teachers in straight marriages were under no such restrictions. Similarly, the existence of queer people itself has been deemed so sexual by some that even mentioning to a child who is struggling with their identity that queer people exist has been called--in all absence of reason--child abuse.

If you can take those example, and then consider that your perspective of furries, much like homo- and transphobes' perspective of queer people, is skewed to view it as entirely sexual despite all the parts that aren't and classify the parts that would be normal sexuality in any other subgroup as deviant. This, as you might be able to deduce, can be quite restrictive of those people's "allowed" place in society.