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Lolicon
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Lolicon (ロリコン, rorikon), sometimes shortened to loli (ロリ, rori), is a Japanese term for a sexual complex where an adult (male or female) is attracted to an underage girl, or in which an underage boy is attracted to an underage girl, or two underage girl. In the Western world, it refers specifically to artwork or manga depicting pre-pubescent or pubescent girls in sexual situations.
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[edit] Etymology
Lolicon is short for Lolita complex, a reference to the Japanese translation of Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex. Which in itself is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. In which the book's narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze. The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious young girl. As such is a term that that began in English when though other languages before by imported back into English.
[edit] Controversy
Like shōtacon, lolicon often depicts children in sexual situations with adults or other children. While the lolicon community argues that drawn art is protected under freedom of speech, critics claim lolicon is a direct offshoot of child pornography and may lead to child sexual abuse. Supporters argue lolicon is fictional drawings and therefore not child pornography (a view supported by Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition) because no child has been harmed in its creation, and that no study has ever linked lolicon to child sexual abuse.
Lolicon has dubious legality in many parts of the world. The sale, but not posssession, of lolicon is outlawed and punishable by imprisonment in some regions of Japan, but is legal in others. The United States PROTECT act of 2003 prohibited obscene or sexual drawings of children, while the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition ruled that such legislation is unconstitutional. Shōtacon is illegal in Australia, Canada, Sweden, Norway, and South Africa, but prosecutors do not typically press charges unless other crimes are present. Since most shōtacon is trafficked internationally (such as through the Internet), national legal prohibitions are difficult to enforce.
[edit] Loli and spanking
Due to the popularity of the anime and manga art form, there is an increasing crossover with loli and girl spanking art.
[edit] See also
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