Why Do People Read Shota?

As a person who's never liked shota I actually searched it up and guess what I found out: Japan's legal consenting age is 13... and what's even worse is, mangakas specifically make the character younger than 13 in shotacon :D I tried finding literally ANY reason why shotacon wouldn't be considered pedophilia but, big surprise, it's exactly the same......   4 reply

Everyone asks why people read shota but nobody asks why people draw shota. Shouldn't you be concerned with ones who come up with that?   2 reply

i think its weird as hell LMAOOO but its better for pedos to read shota instead of touch actual children   reply

bc they are ped0s simple   reply

if we’re talking about like hentai or smut I don’t like Shotas, but like in normal stuff (non-smut) I like characters that look innocent but are like scary or threatening (kinda like honey senpai from ohshc) ofc theres characters like that, that aren’t shotas but when looking through like tags it’s easier for me to just search shota bc the ......   reply

I don't know, but my guess is that they get off from having more power and someone submissing to them, even if it's just because they're a child that's being groomed   reply