To anyone on the fence: I tried for years, in good faith, to assume that lolicons were not pedophiles. I grew up with a lot of posting on 4chan, was heavily involved in 8chan, and wanted to host my own successor after 9chan died. I made ardent defenses of it, many still visible on the forum. It was very difficult to even make this because people would call me a pedophile for even making it, but I wanted to stand by a libertarian ideal. I rationalized that it was mostly just a petite thing, and even if it
was a pedo thing, it'd be better if pedos were jerking off to drawings than real kids.
I can now promise you, with 100% certainty, after dealing with 8chan and 9chan, that the users who post on /loli/ are the same ones spamming child porn on /b/ and trying to set up /cutegirls/.
Japanese art and hentai is all sort of ambiguous - they love to draw
prepubescent girls and call them 17 years old - but anyone deliberately seeking out lolicon specifically is sexually attracted to the bodies of underdeveloped girls. I remember there was an artist named Russell(?) who traced real child pornography into his lolicon art and he got arrested for it. I still see those images get posted around on 4chan to this day, because the people posting it
know what they are doing.
It's really not up for debate as far as I'm concerned. Lolicon has basically just become a dog whistle for pedophiles to find each other, as demonstrated with this guy using the Steam ID lolilk0n posting pictures of children on his profile and hanging out in pedophile groups to make friends.
I'm moving all this shit out to a new thread btw so hold on.