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@PucksBetchi i was sexually assaulted as a small kid and also last summer when i was 15 by an adult. I don't feel the urge to read something like this as "coping". Yes last year i was mature enough to understand what happened. But when i was a child, i couldn't understand yet i never wished it turned out somehow else. It was my cousin and i find it disgusting, it IS disgusting, it HAS to be disgusting. Yet this manga romanticizes child x older relationships. Sure, everyone deals with stuff differently, but the healthy coping mechanism is NOT engaging with more stuff like this. Especially because we know japan is weird and pedophilia is normalized. The intention of this manga probably wasnt to spread awareness.. its a kink unfortunately. People get off to so called shotas. If you get turned on by small childrens body then seek help. So i understand you and this isnt to argue sorry i ius wanted to share my thoughts
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@Rea I'm sorry to hear that you have also been a victim of something this vile. I hope you have people in your life that you can talk to about this who won't shame or blame you for it. If not there are communities on reddit that can be helpful for venting if that's something you feel you need to do at some point. I know what it's like to feel isolated when you are going through stuff like this. 

If you don't find it to be a helpful or productive cpoing mechanism that's your call. I'm not going to say one way is better than another because I'm not in your head nor you mine. We aren't a monolith and acting like there is a perfect way to respond to something like this isn't hurting the pedo's who act on it, or the mysogynistic ra** culture that pushes this idea (if you are hypersexual and/or consume shota you must have wanted it), but ourselves.

This isn't an argument dw, we just happpen to disagree on some things. Your opinion on loli/shota is your own. I take no issue with that. You are free to think it's weird. I guess my question to you is where is the line in terms of what is acceptable in fiction? BL is full of ra** and default heterosexal sadomasochism by default are you okay with that?

I don't want to see the same tired overused tropes and dynamics all the time either but when you are a short dom top who likes taller and bigger guys being subby there aren't many things out there for you to read. Gay culture tends to be quite hostile to anyone who doesn't fit a specific bodytype mould when it comes to roles. Sometimes you have to spit out the seeds to find representation that works for you.