If you are not aware of the parallels between anime and furry, I suggest you do some serious research before closing your mind on an opinion.  These are two fandoms based on the exact same premise, the appeal of cartoons to adult aged audiences.  The only dividing factor between the two is style.  Anime is the Japanese perspective on cartooning, furry is the traditional American and European style of cartooning. 

 ::::::During the course of recent decades the two genres have shared the same comic companies, the same artists, and, in some cases, the same titles.  You will also find a considerable amount of fans who are interested in both genres. 

 ::::::It is regrettable that individuals like yourself have formed these prejudicial views, and thus do not realize that what you are trying to portray as a predominantly sexual thing is the American tradition of animation and comics, which have always been predominantly furry. 

 ::::::It’s also regrettable that you have missed what should be the main object of your concern in this respect, which is general toon smut.  Toon smut effects all cartoons, furry, anime or otherwise.  If you wanted to condemn the general sexualizing of cartoons, I might think you had a worthy cause there.  But to condemn an entire genre of cartooning with a long and revered history seems more than just a tad unreasonable, wouldn’t you say? 

 ::::::I sympathize entirely that the net is filled with perverts who distribute various forms of smut under various names that might inspire such prejudice.  But to say all furry art exists just for furries to jack off to indicates that you have seen nothing of the countless non-sexual furry comic strips that are produced on the net.  You have not met the countless furry artists on sites like DA who create nothing but cute innocent furry art.  In deed, I’ll wager you haven’t seen hardly anything at all of furry, other than derivative toon smut, which you probably deliberately went looking for. 

 ::::::I suggest that you make more of an effort to familiarize yourself with the quality material the genre produces before jumping to these snap conclusions.  I also suggest that you familiarize yourself with anime, before you blithely dismiss the parallels.