HenAi wrote:
That being said, even if lolicon being legal and readily available did lead to more related offences against actual children, I'd still
be totally against censoring it in any way.
Could you clarify this while I put my eyeballs back in their sockets?
I've read that before: a ridiculously inconsequential determination by a single clinic with a limited testing ground for facts, unless they've managed to pinpoint actual child abusers not yet behind bars for further examination.
It's also the sort of 'study' Otaku use to defend Lolicon.
You want the same discussion again? Why?
Your sexual programming is largely determined by your influences during years of sexual development. Influences are myriad and come from a variety of sources.
Age preference is not genetic: most of us spend our budding youth surrounded by members of the opposite sex of a similar age in a youth oriented environment. In addition to that, men are drawn to child-bearing characteristics in women because of the subconscious desire for procreation, of which youthfulness is an affiliate. Programming periods end in the early twenties or thereabouts, and rarely deviate. A man or woman who finds a particular age range attractive from a sexual perspective probably will do so for the rest of their lives. This is utterly common in society and visible in both sexes.
Fetishism is bottomless: this is also to do with influences that form aberrant (by Christian moral standards) desires. If a young boy goes to school in a nursing home, there's a good possibility, depending on what he sees or hears during his exposure, that he may well end up with a granny attraction.
I don't believe in sexual 'perversion' - that's a term made to enforce guidelines in society - but sexual fixation is a lot to do with what we see and are subject to that have an affect on our perception of things.
Anal sex has become more popular than oral sex in the west, say studies of sexual practices. This isn't to do with genetics as much as it's to do with widespread consumer pornography - propagated via the internet - of anal sex. You see it, you think it, you try it, and perhaps you like it. Some are converted, others not.
I draw your attention to the sad ballad of Grace Quek, a promising and intelligent King's College student who "was gang raped and robbed in a rubbish closet under an inner-city housing block" when she was 18 years old. Annabel would go on to sign a contract to be sexually abused in a record breaking 251 man gangbang that caused her physical pain, in a highly public purging of the soul, at the age of 22.
The fact that emerging Lolicon fanatics are predominantly teenage has a lot to do with exposure to the internet and accompanying fads.
So no, I don't buy your study. You don't know anything about what happens behind closed doors, because no-one will be telling you. And no clinic has access to those statistics to build a case. The fact remains: imagery and occurrences shape your sexual programming. If you're exposed to it, it can influence the way you define personal sexual attraction.
Again, Japan is not predominantly youth-fixated because of a genetic strain, it's because they're bombarded with suggestive sexual imagery and material that fixates on youthfulness. You're a sponge, not a rock.
You will absorb, and
you have the ability to act on your impulses if the opportunity presents itself, depending on the strength of your urges.
Sex crime statistics are readily available to back this up, and no sex crime is exclusive: just the way we punish them.
