Makes the pedo problem even weirder because every furry seems completely insufferable.
FTFY
Jokes aside, there's what I call "barrier ages" in every community, and they are pretty consistent. They filter out a large portion of a given community as they move on due to growing up, or changes in life priorities. These are 16, 18, 21, 25, 30, 35, 40 and ever decade after that.
The early ages are getting first job, finishing high school, getting your career started, finishing college settling down with a partner, starting a family, and children hitting key ages that demand more of your attention. As time goes on, it just becomes a case of not being able to relate anymore. This is how most furries go from weirdo kids to respectable members of society, or why that punk you knew in highschool is now an everyman with his kids in the minor league.
The more barriers you pass, the more eccentric the members of the community that remain are. This means once we hit the 21+ bracket we're left with the degenerates, after 25 we got those who are poorly adjusted, and by 30 we got nothing, but the absolutely most degenerate members.
Note, you can still partake in a community after a barrier age, but you're likely not an active member anymore. You got better shit to do.
There's also a quirk to porn in general I think explains the pedophilia. Younger is typically more popular amongst those under 25, and a lot of furry pedophilia tilts young, around 25 there's the shift to a preference towards older, this likely is a quirk of closeness in age attraction. However, furries are cum rotten coomers, they over expose themselves to their fetishes.
Fetishes are reinforced by exposure, and amplified by partaking so they become more ingrained as you go, and more extreme. So take someone who used to mostly watch porn of 18-21, they will move to barely legal if they go total cum rot as they develop and reinforce a fetish for "young" and drive it to a greater extreme. Then they will keep reinforcing and amplifying it until they want barely illegal, then younger teens, then kids. This can be expedited by Littles (like baby furs), who are all degenerate pedos, furry or not, as they start with the perversion and fetishizing of childish behaviours and interests, and then that spreads to actual children being the focus of the fantasy, and not the child like behaviour. Younger folk are extra vulnerable to this, as they are still clinging to aspects of childhood and youth while figuring out adulthood. From around 15-25 you're a fucking mess of hormones and horny, just as it goes on you learn self control. Don't tell me you didn't pop a boner over something weird, creating a weird relationship between that thing and sexuality that was short lived. We all know your glasses fetish was due to popping a boner over your teacher or some cartoon character.
Furries just reinforce that weird. Constantly. Until more solid connections form. Since they tend to commission and look at a lot of porn, especially their preference, it quickly gets extreme. This is often made worse, because outside of other furries, I seem to have a memory of seeing a statistic that most furries don't get laid often, and usually it's only at cons or similar events. Without healthy sexual outlets humans get weird. It's why abstinence only sexual education correlates with higher incest, bestiality, and pedophilia rates. Oh and teen pregnancy rates since there's less protection used. Let little Jimmy jerk it to human titties, and he'll probably be fine. So long as his social and hobby life aren't all about jerking it.