Vanilla-Warrior wrote...
Misaki_Chi wrote...
Another way you can look at it is if you play violent gory videogames does this make you a serial murder?
Just because you look at and play things, this doesn't mean you're going to go out and do them. The people that are interested in young children and want to go on a killing spree had many more issues then just reading Japanese porn or playing violent videogames.
No, but looking at porn of underage children means you have an interest in them, therefore, you a potential pedophile. (I'm pretty sure i stated i was joking)
I was not and am not offended by you asking the question, but I will take offense to you insinuating that I my be a pedophile (either that or you just have terrible grammar).
I will never deny that I have read lolicon, but not because I enjoy or love it in any fashion. I was about 15-16 when I first discovered it and didn't understand it at the time. I was disturbed by some of the things made about young prepubescent children to which I used in a research paper for college in psychology. I still read some to try and understand how the mind works.
You are correct in your thinking, that there are possibly pedophiles who may read lolicon, but not everyone who has read or knows about it is. Having an interest in such topics does not immediately classify one as a pedophile
Pedophilia is a medical diagnosis of a person of 16 years of age and older with a primary and or exclusive sexual interest of children (around the age of 11(or younger depending)-13 which in most cases is considered prepubescent). This said person of 16 years of age and older must be at least 5 years older then the prepubescent child for this to be condition to be diagnosed as pedophilia.
**The laws and definitions are varied from state to state, but I will try to keep as general as I can on the definition for the basis of this posting
Within the terms of the ICD pedophilia is defined as a "disorder of adult personality and behaviour" in which there is a sexual preference for children of prepubertal or early pubertal age.
The DSM-5 gives the term pedophilic disorder to which it is defied as a paraphilia in which adults or adolescents 16 years of age or older have intense and recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about prepubescent children that they have either acted on or which cause them distress or interpersonal difficulty.
This part I am directly quoting
'"In popular usage, the word pedophilia is often incorrectly used to mean any sexual interest in children or the act of child sexual abuse. For example, The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary states, "Pedophilia is the act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children."This common use sometimes conflates the sexual interest in and sexual contact with pubescent or post-pubescent minors. Researchers recommend that these imprecise uses be avoided because although people who commit child sexual abuse against prepubescent children sometimes exhibit the disorder, many child sexual abuse offenders do not meet the clinical diagnosis standards for pedophilia and these standards pertain to prepubescents."
What I am trying to show is that everyone in life has potential to do anything, whether it be the abuse and rape of children, murder and torture, etc. Just because people have read it doesn't mean that everyone is a pedophile.
You stated in your opening that you are underage of this site, hence you are under 18 (though the age is of question). You still have a lot to learn about life and the complexities it has to hold. I will never defend a pedophile, I've met a few through my profession sadly and when I said that there is more to it then just looking at child porn, I mean it.