@Yellow_Heart @MK2boogaloo @lina @renai ambiguous.
I personally dislike it. It holds no appeal for me and I dislike what it represents. But... I don't have a purely visceral disgust of it like some people do and that's likely to do with me being exposed to it during the internet's wild west days. I don't doubt that actual pedophiles look at lolicon. But I don't think lolicons are all pedophiles and many of them know the difference between a drawing and a real girl. I don't think lolicon is a gateway drug to people becoming pedos. I'm less concerned about grown men looking at lolicon in private than I am concerned about lolicon being proliferated en masse and actual underage girls seeing it and thinking it's normal for girls their age to have sex with older men. Young girls are more impressionable. Older men less so.
But... lolicon has a strange value in communities like ours because they ward off shills. I'm of the opinion that most shills are women. It's a profession that requires use of a computer but not actually being technically minded. So it's a comfy office job. It also requires use of human psychology and I'm more than certain that a good portion of superfluous psychology graduates who are almost exclusively female are going into these roles. Latrobe University in my home state actually does have some sort of mixed arts/IT degree that looks like it's oriented towards internet psy-ops.
Most adult women are shocked by lolicon. It reminds them of their own helplessness but it also reminds them of their advancing age. But the kind of women who study psychology would be even more averse to it. That's because most women go into psychology courses as a vanity effort to understand their own psychological problems. And we see that among communities like KiwiFarms and ChudBuds. They have more women that are both psychologically unstable and psychologically literate at the same time. And they're viscerally afraid of lolicon. I don't think even the Spinster women sperg on about lolicon to the extent that KF/CB do.
These women either have histories of sexual abuse or they have extreme narcissistic tendencies in them to interpret otherwise normal sexual experiences as sexual abuse. Or they have narcissism but no sexual appeal and no early life sexual experience and regret that they never had the experience of being a the nubile maiden partner. In the case of the victims... they want to punish men so they're all too happy to pursue careers fucking with us mentally. Or they just do it in their free time.
Regardless... people who are overly afraid of lolicon tend to be people I dislike. So even though I personally dislike it and don't want it proliferated more, I like that it has a warding effect on people I dislike more. Do I condone weaponized cunny... idk...