egonchod

[egonchod]

Understanding Lolisho as a FictionAlly

I will analyze lolicons to prove enjoyment of objectionable fiction does NOT reflect real life preferences. This in contrast to the Anti-Fiction myth sprouted by antis that A) fiction promotes real life attitudes, and B) enjoyment of objectionable fiction reflects real life preferences. My FictionAlly (a renaming of prohship) hypothesis is that A) fiction does NOT promote real life attitudes, and B) enjoyment of objectionable fiction does NOT reflect real life preferences.

"In August 1983, Kawaguchi Toshihiko from Hokkaidō Prefecture writes, 'I have a two-dimensional complex (nijigen konpurekkusu). I don’t feel anything for the photographs in the opening pages. For that reason, I’d like you to stop with the pictures and run only manga'" - Galbraith, P. W. (2011). Lolicon: The Reality of ‘Virtual Ch*ld P*rn*gr*phy’ in Japan. Image & Narrative, 12(1), 83–119. Retrieved from https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/127

This quote came from Manga Burikko per the Patrick W. Galbraith scholarly article cited above. With an understanding of the history of lolicon and an understanding of what Galbraith toned down, the common Anti argument that lolicon equals pedophilia is disproven. Messages like that appeared in Manga Burikko when they added lolicon (fictional manga) content during 1980s lolicon (fictional drawings) boom. Manga Burikko had real ch*ld p*; it was legal in Japan prior to 1999. But messages sent from the new lolicon boom audience led to Manga Burikko ending its run of real ch*ld p*. The real pictures were taking up pages that could be used for the loli (fictional) art. As the article states, "It seems that the editors finally yielded to reader demands in November 1983….Gravure idol photography is entirely absent, and remained so for the rest of the magazine's existence." Literally, lolicons decreased the amount of real ch*ld p* being published. The new lolicon boom audience choose drawn images over real ch*ld p*. No real pedophile would ever do that. This was before ch*ld p* was outlawed in Japan, so it wasn't guilty pedophiles choosing safe fiction. This is OBJECTIVE proof that lolicon DOES NOT equal pedophilia. Furthermore, the lolicon boom audience disliking the irl ch*ld p* while liking the fictional content proves that fictional preferences do NOT reflect real life preferences. This applies to furries, fictional incest, fictional non-con, fictional violence, and more. Fiction is fiction. Anti-Fiction types believe that controlling or censoring fiction can be used for real life advocacy. Per the FictionAlly hypothesis, they are dead wrong.