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> Lolicon manga... it's just pictures. It isn't as if you can just whip
out your manga and suddenly have the ability to easily rape kids.
You just gave me a very, very, very bad idea for a metroidvania powerup.
I think the real problem is not so much that lolicon might cause people who wouldn't otherwise abuse kids to do so, but that it might be used by people who would as a reinforcement to their existing obsessions. Unfortunately, as someone pointed out the last time I tried that one, a lot of things fall in that category e.g. criminals love films that make them look like total badasses, and so on.
It's not straightforward, but I still don't think a totally liberal, no regulation at all approach is a good one.
^ Agreed. It's really hard to draw any kinds of conclusions from it.
Unfortunately, I never majored in media, communications, or journalism, and even if I did, I'm not studying it right now...
Why are you telling us this?
Isn't it obvious?
Bad, in the same way rape simulators, bimbofication stories and torture porn are bad. Pity people need that sort of stuff to get off, would cut off any meatspace bros who are into it, but wouldn't ban it.
The problem with the peeps who both consume the media and put into practice what it depicts, is an attitude problem first and foremost. They use loophole-riddled arguments to justify the morality of their fetishes, refuse to compromise and settle for roleplay and related substitutes(seriously, would someone fantasizing about bumping uglies with aliens try to become an astronaut instead of dressing up a hooker?) and find therapy an evil, controlling device. It's solipsistic narcissism(see it in the way they constantly feel the need to shove it into every thread and spin off long moonlogic arguments that feel like they're in love with the sound of their own typing).
So if the zoophiliac who uses an inflatable sheep or faps while the animals on his farm are getting it on, or the pedo who faps to family snapshots, or the biastophile who dumps sought-after rapefics on the net every week ever outed themselves, I'd point and laugh. But I wouldn't call the fuzz until they'd actually start justifying their hobby.
Also, possibility of mental health issues, etc.
Meh, doesn't change the argument that you can't shaft it all on the medium. The bros in question would discover their fetishes without the help of it, and they'd still try to justify their deviancy in any manner possible.
Meh, doesn't change the argument that you can't shaft it all on the medium. The bros in question would discover their fetishes without the help of it, and they'd still try to justify their deviancy in any manner possible.
But they would justify it with or without the porn. I mean, I remember seeing interviews of pedophiles justifying it by saying that the people they had sex with would feel emotionally wounded if they didn't have sex with them.
Ehm, I don't think we're in disagreement, we seem to basically make the same argument.
porn promotes the behavior within it. (these people are doing X, and enjoying themselves)
so lolicon porn promotes lolicon behavior.
not to mention that lolicon porn is VERY unrealistic.
The annoying thing is that there are studies who confirm this and studies that deny this idea. The social effects of pr0n page is a completely mess, with the only research supporting that statement at first glance being from 25 years back.