I don't think you're a pedophile, well who knows.. I'll never know for sure, but I still wouldn't call people who love lolis to be "pedophiles", I call them lolion... you like animated little girls, not real little girls. Don't worry, my respect for your taste (and understandably, the respect most people might have for your tastes) is not exactly as low as my respect for pedos.. =P (don't know if that helps, at all).

And I'm totally against censorship of all kinds. Free speech should allow even the people behind anime to create whatever they want, even if I personally don't like it. I lot of people don't like what I like, either.

I guess I'd like my posts to be taken as nothing more than a social commentary, really. I'm not trying to condemn anyone. I came here with thoughts that bothered me, and I hoped to get different opinions and maybe find some kind of understanding. I can't help it, when sometimes I get tired of being overwhelmed by loli characters being venerated and worshiped wherever I am online... especially Sankaku, of course! XD

Anime isn't' real, I know that. Sure, go ahead and rape anime girls with your eyes for all I care XD (not saying you want to do that, I mean it as "you can even go that far if you want, it doesn't matter to me"). It's not like I believe that fictional characters are equal to living beings. But your tastes still reflect you in some way, even if it doesn't mean what you like in fiction will translate directly into real life.

I'm only sharing my thoughts as to why people even like lolis. It's something I'm still trying to figure out if it's even possible to understand.

High school age is USUALLY ages 14 to 7 or even 18.

I believe they are all juniors, so the would probably be 16 or 17 years old.