Anime caters to the audience, instead of Western media, which preaches to its audience. Anime which features lolis does it to sell product to pedos.
Anime isn't like TV shows in the US. Instead of going for mass market appeal, anime studios often try to cultivate a small fan base of whales who will pay huge amounts of money for physical products. This is why a lot of shitty anime is packed full of formulaic fetish bait. And one of those fetishes is lolis.
Japan, culturally, worships youth and cuteness, which results in many adults expressing attitudes towards young people that would come across as creepy in the US. However, nobody in Japan actually thinks its okay to fuck kids, and they have one of the strictest age of consent laws in Asia. Japanese attitudes towards and desire for "young / cute / innocent" isn't necessarily sexual, and imo generally isn't, but us Westerners see everything as sexual since our own culture revolves around sexualizing teens without admitting it.
The vast majority of anime, especially the popular big name franchises, don't have this shit in them.
Men who fap to lolis are gross, but there are no victims. It's a cartoon, not a person, and it doesn't look anything like a human being. If we ban/criminalized them, we should be banning and criminalizing faggots, trannies, dykes, and fat chicks since all those groups gross me out, too. The rationale for persecuting these creepy dudes is the misguided and wrong notion that they will inevitably attack a real child. That's actually wrong, according to psych researchers who study this in the US.
Japan has far less crime than elsewhere like the US, including sex crimes, so going to Japan and trying to shame them saying "you should be like us" is a pretty shit sales pitch.
I disagree on the "it's for pedo's" crap as the lolisho fetish is separate from pedophilia.
While I do believe you on the strict age of consent laws, their complexity is infamous for causing confusion in foreigners as they frequently falsely claim it's 13.
their complexity is infamous for causing confusion in foreigners as they frequently falsely claim it's 13.
That's just the foreigners being stupid. Just like the US sets AOC at the state level, Japan does too at the prefecture level, from 16 to 18 exactly like the US.
There is a super old national law that says "13" but that's superseded by all the other local laws. Apparently this is being raised to 16 soon just because the Japanese are sick of people saying it wrong.
bro, people aren't upvoting me because they're pedos, and nobody here faps to lolis.
people like you are part of the problem. your extreme moral panic and sensitivity to dumb shit like lolis takes away from the real groomer shit like "Cuties".
the real reason Vice went on the attack against Japan is because Japan is a socially conservative society that isn't open to immigrants.
If you're a censorious canceller, you pave the path for other censorious cancellers.
"Just a liiiittle evil, just a smidge! Only for my own personal most desired definitely just minor evil!" is not a good policy. Time and time again we have concrete proven evidence that "slippery slope" is not in fact a fallacy, but a prophecy.
So your implication is that I'm a pedo, right? Typical of NPCs like you.
I have a girlfriend who is older than I am, with giant titties. I think lolis are gross.
The real answer Because I'm a lawyer and I'm familiar with criminal cases involving sexual offenses. These cases are often irrational and don't actually try to do what is best to protect children. I think it is an extreme moral panic in the US and that people aren't capable of talking rationally about it because of dumbfucks like you who screech PEDOOOO PEEEDDOOOO at anything that moves.
There are legitimate threats to children in the US, primarily from Left wing LGBT activists, and the sexualization of little girls such as depicted in "Cuties" and encouraged by TikTok, not from some neckbeard who likes cartoons.
Anime caters to the audience, instead of Western media, which preaches to its audience. Anime which features lolis does it to sell product to pedos.
Anime isn't like TV shows in the US. Instead of going for mass market appeal, anime studios often try to cultivate a small fan base of whales who will pay huge amounts of money for physical products. This is why a lot of shitty anime is packed full of formulaic fetish bait. And one of those fetishes is lolis.
Japan, culturally, worships youth and cuteness, which results in many adults expressing attitudes towards young people that would come across as creepy in the US. However, nobody in Japan actually thinks its okay to fuck kids, and they have one of the strictest age of consent laws in Asia. Japanese attitudes towards and desire for "young / cute / innocent" isn't necessarily sexual, and imo generally isn't, but us Westerners see everything as sexual since our own culture revolves around sexualizing teens without admitting it.
The vast majority of anime, especially the popular big name franchises, don't have this shit in them.
Men who fap to lolis are gross, but there are no victims. It's a cartoon, not a person, and it doesn't look anything like a human being. If we ban/criminalized them, we should be banning and criminalizing faggots, trannies, dykes, and fat chicks since all those groups gross me out, too. The rationale for persecuting these creepy dudes is the misguided and wrong notion that they will inevitably attack a real child. That's actually wrong, according to psych researchers who study this in the US.
Japan has far less crime than elsewhere like the US, including sex crimes, so going to Japan and trying to shame them saying "you should be like us" is a pretty shit sales pitch.
I disagree on the "it's for pedo's" crap as the lolisho fetish is separate from pedophilia.
While I do believe you on the strict age of consent laws, their complexity is infamous for causing confusion in foreigners as they frequently falsely claim it's 13.
That's just the foreigners being stupid. Just like the US sets AOC at the state level, Japan does too at the prefecture level, from 16 to 18 exactly like the US.
There is a super old national law that says "13" but that's superseded by all the other local laws. Apparently this is being raised to 16 soon just because the Japanese are sick of people saying it wrong.
Surprisingly based.
bro, people aren't upvoting me because they're pedos, and nobody here faps to lolis.
people like you are part of the problem. your extreme moral panic and sensitivity to dumb shit like lolis takes away from the real groomer shit like "Cuties".
the real reason Vice went on the attack against Japan is because Japan is a socially conservative society that isn't open to immigrants.
Faggot whining like a faggot.
I disagree with censorship in any and all forms.
If you're a censorious canceller, you pave the path for other censorious cancellers.
"Just a liiiittle evil, just a smidge! Only for my own personal most desired definitely just minor evil!" is not a good policy. Time and time again we have concrete proven evidence that "slippery slope" is not in fact a fallacy, but a prophecy.
Cry more
The real pedos are the ones who object to pedos, right?
Fuck off lol
So your implication is that I'm a pedo, right? Typical of NPCs like you.
I have a girlfriend who is older than I am, with giant titties. I think lolis are gross.
The real answer Because I'm a lawyer and I'm familiar with criminal cases involving sexual offenses. These cases are often irrational and don't actually try to do what is best to protect children. I think it is an extreme moral panic in the US and that people aren't capable of talking rationally about it because of dumbfucks like you who screech PEDOOOO PEEEDDOOOO at anything that moves.
There are legitimate threats to children in the US, primarily from Left wing LGBT activists, and the sexualization of little girls such as depicted in "Cuties" and encouraged by TikTok, not from some neckbeard who likes cartoons.
Take your kafkatrap and fuck off.
You, um, used a lot of words to condescendingly say "who cares".
I was...just...wondering...
Why?
I just wanted to mock his stupid way of typing.