• DeadDigger@lemmy.zip
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    Well no. Pedophilia is the attraction to real children and lolicon is the attraction to illustrations of prepubertal girl like characters that doesn’t even need to be sexual. There is a big difference between these too.

    The translation is also wrong because in Japanese there exist the loanword pedophilia and it was not used in the original so translating it as another existing word is pretty bad.

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      If you’re into these depictions because they’re depicted as children…

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        Is it because they depict children or because they depict child like features?

        By the first, technically adult characters in a child like body (lucky star) wouldn’t count.

        By the second, catgirl cosplay counts as bestiality.

        Things get seriously vague once you consider diverse aesthetic cores, like goth loli fashion. also technically is.

        Is it pedophilia if you wanna have sex in a ballpit with your adult partner while dressed as clowns while sucking oversized pacifiers? Just asking.

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          If someone is specifically into child like features and akshually they’re a 9000 year old dragon, yeah they’re a pedo

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      this isn’t some baudrillard level type of simulacra shit, it’s literally people using cartoons as analogs to their real attractions, so yes, they are pedos.