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I totally agree, reading them have made me … numb to how absurd the concepts are but when it comes to real life these references don’t even occur to me for a minute, it feels completely disgusting and criminal in real life. As long as one feels like they can differentiate both, I think it should be okay to enjoy these mangas.
numb to its absurdity is a great way to put it. Loved your input :3 imma follow you
If you actually believe anyone who reads this is a pedo then it makes sense why you'd feel upset and want to barrage those people and this story with heavy accusations, but liking this kind of content doesn't necessarily say anything about a person's real life attractions or values. Real life circumstances like this would make me cringe and gag and if the older dude actually did anything to a child I'd probably have enough rage in me to straight up kill him (I'm sure everyone here can agree that you do not fuck with children). BUT, I've been exposed to shotacon/incest/rape/gore/etc. hentai as a little kid with hypersexuality issues and a knack for weird things (not an ideal combination clearly), and it's all kinda become it's own little taboo category of interest in my brain that only exists within the realm of art and fictional story (and that I unfortunately never grew out of, but I've found is better to embrace than shame yourself for [it just creates more problems]). Just thinking about the shit that happens in those different genres though happening in real life is abhorrent and disgusts me to no end. IDK, the human brains fucking weird, but I'm confident most people here have similar-ish reasons and aren't just full blown pedophiles (let's not diminish the word like we did with grooming yea?).