>>1313877The lolicon circles go way back to the 60s prior to the earliest comikets and it was never reflecting of real children, but rather because nerdy teenagers found Sally the Witch to be pretty hot, while many nerdy girls of the era lusted after Shotaro from Tetsujin-28 hence the term. The reasoning given was due to the way they were drawn, going by what people in Japanese boards say, they don't look like "real people, or an abstraction of our ugly reality, but like perfect beings we can't attain or aspire to be" (or, translated in modern lingo, 2D>3D) If you've ever looked at the real deal, most people are ugly, but children are especially ugly sacks of fleshy shit.
Loli characters honestly look more akin to fae, especially with how stylized, long legged and wide hipped some are (Maylu Sakurai from Megaman comes to mind). And honestly, you're in the absolute worst website to try to have this arguement on. This is fucking 4chan.
Either way, it's too late to put brakes to it anyway, as long as comiket exists and there's a market. Even real child protection services have told people to stop denouncing anime as real child abuse because their reports clutter actual real people being abused.
