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It's not a formal rule or anything like that, and there are a number of subspecies where the trend reverses (such as reptile-like interpretations of kobolds). More just the sort of stereotype that arises from a bunch of coincidences.
Prosaically, most reptile and dragon species have connotations of being physically strong, socially domineering, heavily built, and moderately possessive, whether in gay or het spheres. A number of formative works (Spyro the Dragon, , older versions of D&D, Digimon, to a lesser extent Pern) either reinforced that or feed narratives that worked toward it (The Jungle Book is... a very awkward way to find out that you like older men with sibilant voices, but in addition to spawning a genre of hypno subs, it also ended up with lot of people specifically looking for reptilian tops).
More pruriently, and with the caution that you probably don't want to know (cw: nsfw):there's a bit of a founder's effect thing going on, where a couple highly skilled gay artists early in the fandom were famous/notorious for male scalies from behind; while the characters themselves were posed as bottoms, the art as a whole is a lot more interesting for top/vers men, and that's kinda fed in on itself. As a smaller factor, some real-world reptiles have a physical feature known as a hemipenis, which for furry shorthand gets treated as basically having two dicks. A fairly small number of scalie characters use that concept, and there are some things you can do with art or writing with a dual-dicked bottom, but it's mostly a kink for tops. Slit-fucking is more of a frottage or docking parallel, but it's a parallel that makes them into something more akin to PIV sex, so that may have played some role (though it may not; for every thesecretcave where it's explicitly gay, there's a zeptophidia where it's more about gender stuff).
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