| I don't see how cartoons would encourage behavior in someone that wouldn't commit the same acts without the cartoons. It isn't as if someone could become obsessed with the model and stalk the cartoon character, as is the worry with Jon Benet and child models/beauty contestants. Hell, anime and manga are so far from realistic depictions of people that you couldn't even find a young girl who looks like the cartoons, at least not that I've ever seen.
I think that men who look at stuff like this do it because there is an odd fascination in mixing something that would be stimulating (the sex acts) with something that is not stimulating, namely the young "girls" in the images. That sort of juxtaposition is just, well, interesting. But I think the taboo against sexual exploitation and sexual attraction of children is strong enough that only cartoons allow people to explore that interest, and so lolicon sells but child porn does not, except to actual pedophiles.
That's my theory, at least. I have a hard time seeing any cartoons as sexually interesting.
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