What do you think about shota manga?

I'm 25, and I can't stand shota. The few times I've visited the homepage of myreadingmanga, I've seen cover images of children in explicit poses, and it's disgusting. There's drawings of babies drawn in the same way... literal babies! I've never read shota and honestly I can live my entire life without ever having to. Yes I'm aware it's fiction and......   2 reply

just realized what does that mean and thank god i haven't read any 'shota' manga , its like child porn to me i know its just a manga but still , i hate it   reply

god i hate it so much. i cannot even express how much i hate it. that shit literally induces a *physical reaction* within me. and yes i am 100% going to hate on you if you come to me saying like you like shota/loli because it's so disgusting. like i get that kids these days are having sex and stuff, but it's still nasty. it's even worse when the pr......   1 reply

18 and over otherwise hell no   1 reply

I don't think it should be made. Ever. It's gross and panders to actual predators. It slowly paints these people's sick fantasies as normal, and that can be harmful to actual children when a pedo wants to experience it first hand instead of in comic form. And I know that the counter argument is the age of consent of other countries, but it's still ......   1 reply

I'm from the u.s. and I read shota. It's fiction, a piece of fantasy and a bunch of pages that shouldn't be taken seriously. And I'm not going to sit here and say 12-14 year olds arent having sex because at my brother's junior high graduation, there were graduates with babies who weren't their nephews/nieces or sister/brothers.   1 reply

This is a long response, but if you actually are curious about the issue, please read on. I wish we could more freely discuss these issues as a culture without stigma and projection. Let me just start by saying that I have a complicated reaction to it on a personal level, in that it disgusts me most when the child is portrayed as enjoying what's ......   2 reply