Do people actually read shotacon or loli

I was on Reddit (I know) and there was a post in ao3 where a lot of people were saying they read shota and loli and I was kind of surprised because I thought, similar to incest, most don’t really seek this kinda thing out? I don’t really get the whole anti and pro ship thing I don’t know if it’s good to be one or the other I just believe that all things should be able to be published (even rape shota loli incest anything everything), I just won’t really read a lot of it. Like dont support censorship, but I also don’t approve of the stuff just more of it has a right to exist

I guess my question is do you read shota and loli, and how would you feel if a friend of yours read it ? (I’m not gonna attack you whatever response you give but can’t promise what other people will do)