Why has loli become so popular?

[x_rex30]

what made it popular in japan.. what is wrong with peoples sick minds to make it very popular in the us as well, even my friends are into it..

I lived in Japan for a while and at a video game store upstairs they had hentai video games and most of them were loli.. some even todlerkon... I mean wtf?? Someone please explain this to me.

[O-Kagachi]

Its just..... cute. To me it's just insanely cute.

[O-Kagachi]

well, the loli porn isnt, but the cute little girls wearing clothes are.

[yuppa]

hey they have recently struck down the child porn law. it still includes th ereal children part, but drawn stuff has been taken off its list. go to the shoujo-aiheavens to see the proof of it in a post by the one and only Clara yuri asaki.

[hypes]

Hey, people are into different things. Whatever floats your boat and as longas it aint real, then why get all inquisition on someone?

[RocketNight]

Its just Uber cute and some people like cute over sexy

[Malificus]

Then there are always the pedophiles and lolicons. That said, I like Lolita characters too, the clothed ones of course.

[Lyrs]

As much as ppl try to shape a difference between pedophilia and lolikon, they are very much the same.

Pedophilia has certain traits in common with other sexual addictions. Like any other sexual addiction it is guided by rejection and acceptance. For instance, the addicted masturbator, whether or not he is a pedophile, does not have to worry about rejection because there is no risk of rejection when having sex alone. The addicted pornography user cannot be rejected by an inanimate picture. But pedophilia is also different because pedophilia involves a real person.

http://www.sexualcontrol.com/pedophilia.html#pedinfo

Psychological implications

Research conducted by Linz, Donnerstein and Penrod in the 1980s suggests that men who view violent adult pornography are more likely to believe that women who are raped deserve the attack, place less responsibility on the attacker and demonstrate greater acceptance of "rape myths" than men who do not view this material. Prolonged exposure to nonviolent pornography that depicts women in sexually submissive roles may cause both men and women to become more tolerant of extreme forms of pornography, less supportive of sexual equality, and less likely to assign blame to a rapist (Zillman & Bryant, 1982); however, these effects have not always been replicated (Linz, Donnerstein & Penrod, 1988).

Child pornography may elicit responses similar to the secondary effects produced by violent adult pornography. Collecting experimental data on the effects of child pornography is impossible because possession of child pornography violates the CPPA. As such, psychologists are unable to prove that there is or is not a causal relationship between consuming child pornography and other illegal activity such as pedophilia. Similarly, there is no way to show causation between the way child pornography is marketed and the impact on the viewer. A limited number of self-report studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between exposure to child pornography and pedophilia, but sample sizes were small and biased (e.g., a sample of pedophiles who had all been sexually abused as children).

Larger scale, longitudinal studies are needed to provide the courts with answers to a number of questions. Does viewing child pornography in the past predict child molestation in the future? Do pedophiles use child pornography as a method of enticing unwilling victims into sexual activity? Do computer-generated images of child pornography produce the same secondary harm as child pornography produces with actual children? Psychologists are uniquely qualified to conduct this research.

Source: http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/jn.html


I'm of the persuasion that people who enjoy lolicon are either young kids themselves or if they are adults, they haven't matured sexually.

[OmniStrata]

Shana...

My eyes, MY EYES!!!

[x_rex30]

I don't think my friends haven't matured in that area.. I never liked it before but I got persuaded into it by my obsession with hentai and anime, and creators of both hentai and anime make a lot of lolicon.. same with the futanari.. It just got shoved in my face and originally I didn't like it.. I actually hated it, but running into such exaggerated picture and great art and concepts, I eventually caved in. Same thing happened with gore.. in anime I enjoy it.. but originally I was scared of gore, violence, etc and gave me bad dreams.. I don't know why I ended up doing a 180 on all these things.. all of this things though I don't agree with in real life.. I don't believe in war, or violence, or pedophilia or chicks with things(this one is a major turn off and I hate running into sites with it.)