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.
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.
Faggot whining like a faggot.