Like all porn, the main reason people want to keep it around is because they enjoy it.
Furry fandom is full of people with fantasies. It would be naive to expect them to be restricted to being a different species. Fans like to imagine what it would be like being another sex, another gender, another occupation . . . and many, it seems, enjoy imagining what it would like to be young again.
Being people, they also like to fantasize about having sex. (Perhaps not all, but a clear majority.)
For some, MUCKs and stories are the only way to go. But a good picture says a thousand words, and delivers them within the time it takes to read but a few; therefore images depicting such fantasies are in great demand.
Like all porn, the main reason people want to keep it around is because they enjoy it.
Furry fandom is full of people with fantasies. It would be naive to expect them to be restricted to being a different species. Fans like to imagine what it would be like being another sex, another gender, another occupation . . . and many, it seems, enjoy imagining what it would like to be young again.
Being people, they also like to fantasize about having sex. (Perhaps not all, but a clear majority.)
For some, MUCKs and stories are the only way to go. But a good picture says a thousand words, and delivers them within the time it takes to read but a few; therefore images depicting such fantasies are in great demand.