Reading the comments of the people who want it suppressed and didn’t get mass downvoted, I ran into something common:
They want it banned because they believe that the society that they want is completely incompatible with that content existing, or that banning said content is completely consistent with 1A because the US existed for almost 200 years without such content (porn in general, lolisho really only got over here because of anime becoming a sensation) being mass distributed throughout the country.
Going back to lolisho specifically, there’s no way to get around the fact that sexual lolisho art depicts children in sexual situations, and I personally don’t believe that anime looking like it does matters, because that’s still a human out there, so the reaction to it is gonna be what it is regardless. The discussion tends to be a lot more…focused and less calling people authoritarians and pedos when we actually address the elephant in the room, so I might as well do it in the main post instead of a comment.
I’m just a college student that’s not that well informed on why this is being used as a canary in the coalmine, but I’ll let y’all have at it.
it was around for decades and it was never an issue until people decided to make it an issue . No one even thought much about it in the past because it was niche in the first place , yet people wanted to bring attention to something niche (especially tourists that only just recently came in to anime) that didnt do anything for decades just to create a drama out of it whilst ignoring real issues.
I remember a girl at my university saying she had a crush on a shota character. If i were to go by the standards some people today are pushing, i would have to call her a pedo even though she is not . Of course people tend to get upset over loli yet ignore shota cause they are feminists.
I can never agree to treating fictional characters like they are real .