Tldr; People are sick and need God.
Tell that to the actual Church, both the Catholic Church AND the Unitarians (as well as the many sub-dominions of the greater Christian Orthodoxy), there is a metric fuckton of closeted weirdos in those hallowed buildings of purity. Hell, this also isn't unique to the Harems of the Muslim-majority Ottomans or the obsessions the Israelites had with depicting their enemies as incestuous bastards (it's the reason why the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah exists in the Old Testament, it's essentially a closeted mockery piece on their tribal enemies), and this is just the Abrahamic, Judeo-Christian religions, from which Islam takes many influences. Go further east and it's just as loopy. The Shinto shrines allowed the establishment of brothels near their grounds and it was not uncommon for travelling Mikos/Shrine Maidens to offer sexual work for their services just to get some extra money. Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism are also huge on sexual rituals and "
Yab-Yum" the deification of sexual union with a female consort.
Furries though, that's not necessarily wealth. Furries are obsessive weirdos that will often sacrifice their own wellbeing to further said obsession, or fund other furries to further their pursuits. If it came down to Bills or coom, a fursuit, con expenses, etc they will commonly choose the latter.
That's the way of lifestyle types. It happens in fraudulent martial arts too, people
whose entire daily lives are either fraudulent, bullshit or dedicated to a strange hobby are not the most well-adjusted people in the village so to speak. It's part of a greater psychological problem they have as individuals. Since you also have a ton of poor judgement-afflicted,
Cluster-B/BPD types infesting those same circles of lolcow degeneracy as the political types who allowed Prager U to cover their paedo founders and associates on the Right-wing and Sam Bankman-Fried and his LARPing Elf Girl ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison to defraud the US Government and many investors with worthless crypto on the Left-wing, people
who do not view themselves as "in the wrong" or that they are responsible for their actions. It also helps that a ton of them, especially Furries who fund the practices of other Furries
are extremely lonely and easily bored people who desire to be with others who share their interests because all of that money doesn't buy you a friend, ally or comrade in arms. But it CAN
aid in the expansion of your group of like-minded folks so that you're "cushioned" by other degenerates.
Comfort is Community, it's why so many rich people cosy up with each other and why they do not like it if anyone laughs at them, because any comedy at their expense is viewed as a "threat" to their community and by extension, their livelihood, and people tend to get insanely violent when defending their lifestyle and personal connections.
If we're talking furries in particular that shit started in the late 1980s from college art weirdos selling art to other college art weirdos in the first place.
I also blame the long-tail, slow-burn popularity of the Underground Comix movement (watch Terry Zwigoff's 1995 documentary on Robert Crumb, a man who's heavily cited as a founding father of the Comix movement and art collective, the guy's very weird and has a creepy background, coupled with his brothers Charles and Maxon, who are both fucked up individuals) and the rise of Usagi Yojimbo and TMNT for the greater acceptance of non-Disney Furry Art (Disney also had a hand in awakening many young furries at the time too via their productions in the early to mid-1970s, though that was more of a chilling effect because the company was trying to save money by tracing over their old dailies and reels from the 1940s and 1950s instead of investing millions of dollars in new equipment) considering the excessive marketing and support they got in the 1980s. That alone, gave many artists the idea and chance to say "Hey, if they're getting rich off drawing pretend funny cartoon animals without Disney's or Paramount's or whatever Corpo pencilneck's oversight, I can do that too!" because Art is an industry and there's always a market in any industry that's geared towards profits over basic ethical concerns or not being a sex creep, people drew them and they sold to the highest weirdo bidder.
I just hate how many people don't question it and think the megacorps actually give a shit.
That's because criticising them will lead to lobbying firms who push for DEI, in addition to Hedge funds and Private Equity Firms like BlackRock going out of their way to blackmail ANYONE who dares to criticise them by claiming that their critics are homophobes and against human rights, or worse, take away those juicy, sweet loans megacorps like Disney, Sony, Nintendo of America, Coca-Cola, Target, etc depend on like a fucking Heroin addict. Again,
it's the same playbook Advertisers have used to promote opiates via the Sackler family and the same tactics that espionage circles do when it comes to Black Propaganda, a tactic that many governments and activist groups engage in to promote any lie that can help them politically and economically.
Also there is correlation between autism, deviancy, IQ and wealth.
Again, there's not just a causative link, they also flock together in the same groups and "communities" (I call them cults because they are very anti-freedom of speech and anti-satire and often follow a lot of the same, narcissistic chodes who have megathreads on the Farms, additionally, a small glance on this forums' "Take that off The God Damn Internet" section springs up many familiar faces we've discussed and exposed for years), go to the same conventions and conferences and follow each other online and offline. It's a literal Rat King of Autism.