Elf Sternberg

As broad and wide as the spectrum of people in Furry are, I don't think you can point to any single disorder or opinion and say it covers everyone.

The two biggest camps in furry are the young turks with the Free Love attitudes, and the slightly older crowd with a Don't Squick the Squares attitude. The former don't give a rats ass what anyone else thinks and they'll swing naked from the chandeliers if they want to. The latter wants to be certain the hotel won't throw the con out for bad behavior. Both sides have good intentions, but go way overboard in their pursuit of their belief system -- the wild things don't care what anyone thinks while the older folks worry too much about what other people think.

And really, you give the Burned Furs too much credit for this. As proof, ask 20 furries if they know what Burned Furs was. I'll be surprised if you get more than 4 people saying that they do. Furthermore you can see the same argument in every fandom, not just furry. The battle royal between the FIAWOL and FIJAGDH crowds has been roaring since that literary con in Chicago in the 30s where the "costumed nuts" were told to leave, and they established an impromptu con across the street and most of the crowd went with them. No, the argument of "how much sexual freedom is too much" won't be hammered out in furry, just like it won't be hammered out in society overall. You will always have the free love crowd at loggerheads with the prude squads, be it in furry, americana, steampunk, or HO scale model trains.