Even if the material is fictional, it often draws from or fuels real-world exploitation. The production, distribution, or consumption of sexualized depictions of minors contributes to the demand for that kind of material and that demand drives real harm and abuse. If your pea sized brain could look something up online, you’d find that sexualizing minors can desensitize people, blur moral boundaries, and potentially reinforce predatory attitudes, even among those who start with “just fiction.” You’re a pedophile, and you need help. It’s funny how you even try to defend people who engage in pedophilic behavior. You’re disgusting, you’re an illness.
Wow, you're making a lot of assumptions and jumping straight to moral condemnation instead of having a discussion. You do realize the point wasn't initially about “defending pedophilia” right? There's a reason why there's a clear distinction between fiction and reality. Fiction can explore disturbing or taboo topics without endorsing them or causing real-world harm.
There’s no credible evidence showing that consuming fictional material directly leads to committing crimes or “fuels” real exploitation. Correlation isn’t causation. Literally some research suggests the opposite that fiction can serve as a harmless outlet.
It’s fine to find certain content uncomfortable or morally wrong for you, but that doesn’t mean everyone who views it is a predator. Demonizing people over fictional drawings doesn’t protect real children, it just shuts down nuance and discussion.
If you actually care about preventing real abuse, focus on supporting policies, education, and resources that help victims and target real offenders, not fictional art.
You’re missing the point completely. Saying ‘it’s just fiction’ doesn’t magically make something harmless. Fiction reflects real desires, markets, and moral boundaries, and when you sexualize children in any form, you normalize that image. It doesn’t have to ‘directly cause’ a crime to be toxic. That’s like saying violent propaganda isn’t a problem until someone actually kills. Absurd logic.
There’s a reason most societies outlaw or restrict that material, because it does shape perception, desensitize people, and create demand for more extreme content. ‘No credible evidence’? It's ‘no ethical way to test it,’ because no sane researcher is going to expose people to that filth to see if they offend afterward. We use moral judgment and risk prevention for children’s safety.
So no, it’s not about ‘demonizing fiction,’ it’s about drawing a clear, ethical line. The moment you start defending the sexualization of minors under the banner of “art” or “nuance,” you’ve already blurred the line predators exploit. Fictional or not SEXUALIZING KIDS IS NEVER NEUTRAL, NEVER HARMLESS, AND NEVER OKAY.
No, you're missing the point. Recognizing a difference between fiction and reality isn’t the same as endorsing or promoting real abuse.
You’re treating all depictions as if they function identically to real acts, but that’s all your assumption, not a proven fact. Saying “it reflects real desires” doesn’t automatically mean it creates or normalizes them. Human psychology doesn’t work in that simple cause-and-effect way. For example, exposure to violent media hasn’t been shown to make people more violent, even though violent content “reflects” real aggression. The same reasoning applies here.
You’re free to hold the view that certain fictional content is unethical, but equating everyone who disagrees with you to predators is stupid.
Also, throwing around the word “pedophile” to describe people consuming or writing fictional content literally cheapens the term and devalues the seriousness of real predatory behavior. That word should be reserved for those who harm or exploit real children, not for people engaging with uncomfortable fiction. When it’s used as a blanket insult, it loses its power to name and condemn actual abusers.
being fictional doesn’t make it neutral. This specifically romanticizes pedophilic acts. I mean one of the main factor of this manga is age . If it wasn't the kid would've been a college student instead or sthin. Fiction echoes real world shit dude. We need to call these shit out so we don't promote actions like this or normalize the views of abuse.
No, I actually do understand the difference between fiction and reality, the problem is pretending that difference makes everything consequence-free. You can say ‘it’s just fiction’ all day, but fiction still reflects and reinforces real attitudes. That’s literally how propaganda, advertising, and even social conditioning work they shape perception and normalize ideas over time. So yes, even fictional sexualization of minors helps desensitize people to something that should never be normalized. Also, saying we shouldn’t call that behavior pedophilic because it ‘cheapens the term’ is backwards. The term loses power when we excuse pedophilic interest just because it’s drawn or written instead of acted out. The desire are the same the difference is one’s acted on and one’s fantasy, and pretending the latter is morally neutral just makes the slope slipperier.
If someone genuinely cared about preventing real abuse, they wouldn’t defend the media that keeps those fantasies alive. You can dress it up as nuance or freedom of expression all you want, but at the end of the day defending child sexualization even in fiction doesn’t make you enlightened, it makes you a complicit.

The comments are being plagued by people crying about fiction and the age gap of a fucking doodle. They reek of new gen fujo my god