Post #3825082
2026-07-14 10:27 UTC
Is it not? The definition is the sexualization of a minor or prepubescent girl in anime/manga. Sounds like pedophilia to me.
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@lime@feddit.nu 2026-07-14 10:33
especially in the context of an in-universe character saying it, yeah
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@nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 2026-07-14 14:03
Per ICD-11, pedophilia can’t be diagnosed if attraction is not acted upon or is distressing the patient. Also it doesn’t count cases where attraction is not primary.
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@DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2026-07-14 10:37
Well no. Pedophilia is the attraction to real children and lolicon is the attraction to illustrations of prepubertal girl like characters that doesn’t even need to be sexual. There is a big difference between these too. The translation is also wrong because in Japanese there exist the loanword pedophilia and it was not used in the original so translating it as another existing word is pretty bad.