So if someone is having that reaction to loli porn, that is animated porn of underage subjects, it ain't the medium (animation vs. real life) that's the crux of the issue. It's the age.

I tend to stay out of this part of the discussion because it's ultimately pointless, however;

You're making a very obviously bad deduction.

You assume that the draw of loli in terms of usage is age.

That's literally what being horny is. Your brain gearing you up to mate.

And up here you came to an incorrect idea of human psychosexual interactions.

Being horny or aroused doesn't strictly have to have anything to do with mating itself. It's a reaction to external or internal stimuli.

When a person gets aroused at seeing an image often the reason why has little to do with the image itself. It becomes a mental refinement process whereby the mind manifests a scenario of an ideal partner or situation.

This is the reason why long-term porn use is incredibly dangerous and habit forming. It evokes a sort of self-propagandization. You are quite literally training your mind in a Pavlovian style into more and more specific and more and more debased interests.

With loli, the age often may have little to do with it. More often you'll find that it's the presumption of innocence either mental or physical. The content will evoke a scenario of protection, corruption, or destruction.

Once it reaches the stage of destruction, that does not mean the individual is predisposed to a realization of their thoughts, nor a tendency towards them. Meaning, a person who comes to get off on porn about raping or torturing kids doesn't necessarily desire to rape or torture kids. It's the same as in regards to video game violence. There's a separation in thought and consciousness between the real and the imaginary.

The real issue comes for those that are unable to distinguish between reality and their thoughts, and for those who may be biologically predisposed towards certain attractions.

If ya really are worried about the cause and effect you should look not into loli but into furry and stuff like abdl. It's literally a cult recruitment scheme set up in a way to warp the mind into acceptance of a group value system. Trannies do the same thing through text and were partially bred through that self-replicating mind virus.

But we've been told repeatedly there is something about it they're attracted to, and that it's not

We've been repeatedly told a lot of things, like that Biden won the election, wuflu isn't from china, and there's no border crisis.

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm not sure why you wrote so much.