Horny men.
Various pokemon artists have flat out admitted they designed them with sex in mind.
Generally Japanese culture don't see anything wrong with finding a shapely 14yo hot and form social stigmas around it, just look and don't touch or may God help you. Americans frown on this, but they bury a lot of human nature behind Christian "morals".
Buddhists are generally more chill, look at Buhdda, dudes high as fuck.
