The "problem," using the word loosely and with no ill meaning, with plushophilia is that it's still pretty obscure in the list of 'philias the average Joe knows. BDSM has gradually been made mainstream (well, arguably...I would wager what most people out of a random sample think BDSM is differs substantially from what practitioners would define it as) as a result of a good long while of it being featured in various media. It is, for the purposes of conveying it in a book or movie, "plain" enough (if we're looking at the Hollywood version of it) to still strike a chord with an average vanilla reader yet different enough to still be "exotic," in a manner of speaking. Plushophilia would be substantially more difficult to relate in the same manner BDSM did.

I don't mean to imply plushophilia is strange or anything like that at all. I actually understand it much more than I do some others. Additionally, I'll concede my point is based off of very broad generalizations. But were I to lump plushophilia into the furry fandom (which technically, is that incorrect?) and what I've seen from the Internet's undeservedly harsh treatment of furries...there may be a ways to go.