What is the difference between someone suffering from a “Lolita complex” and someone suffering from “pedophilia”?
Yuu Mental Clinic, an accredited psychiatric clinic, provides a full explanation of the difference in manga format with the aid of doctor Ryo Shinnai and nurse Asuna Kangoshi, translated below:
The original Japanese version.
Yuu Mental Clinic is by Ueno station in Tokyo – those in need of mental health services can visit their site here; they also publish a series of web comics explaining the treatment mental health issues through manga.
Guys, please help me.
I live in a hypocritical morally fucked up western country where being attracted to anything that LOOKS young already rises suspision of being a child molesting pedophile. I have no sexual preference that has to do with age, however i find people that are unspoiled by the perversities and corruption of society to be attractive. That is, i do expect a certain minimal intellectual capacity. When i see a child then the first thought isn’t that i must have sex with that child, it doesn’t work like that at all. I can also be attracted by women of age 40 and up. It all depends on the person in question. What i mean to say with this is that my sexual desires aren’t goverened by age, they are goverened by a huge slew of factors like emotion, intelligence, aestethics, style, kindness, etc,… I’m not an ageist, why does society think it’s ok to siqxriminaMy sexual desires are just a whole lot more complex and interesting then the shallow square society would like to force everyone into, yet i would be classified as mentally ill? I feel like a repressed homosexual in a homophobic society
Keep telling yourself that. Ultimately desires are very simple and even if you can be attracted to many things, there is sure to be a dominant preference in there. You can’t get around it with reason or trying to be different. Maybe I’m wrong in this case, but I see no reason at all.
Page 6, panel 2 is wrong. She’s saying the opposite.
The translation in general is a 6/10 for a fan work, or a 4/10 for a professional work. Don’t know which to consider this as.
The difference is that lolicons have a basic and sane sense of ethics, since it’s 2D and we don’t go out there preying on real children.
Hmm… Still that doesn’t make any radical point. Yeah liking 13-17 year old girls doesn’t make you a pedophile, it makes you an ephibophile though. And you are still gonna be persecuted by the law in most countries i think if for example the parents of the girl accuse you of exploiting the “innocence” of their daughter.
That manga is a horrible generalization of the topics it is trying to cover. It would be better if it was funny in that the nurses get the DR. who was talking in it committed to a mental asylum for 10 years for saying ‘that one looks nice’ in reference to the girl with the back pack, then have pictures of him with a smuggled in picture of that one with the back pack in his padded cell with some notes to something rapid going on down there. (nothing visual thank you).
In any case, world wide including stoneage tribes of people who have never left the 40 foot deep cave in the side of the volcano — Do Not Have Sex With Children. No tradition, no mental illness, no peer pressure, no 300,000 year old religious text, and no amount of money or prestige is going to make it an ok thing to do. I have spoken Straighten the hell up!
That manga is put together by medical professionals, and it is certainly not a generalization. If anything it is perfectly on target – and the target is the medical definition of pedophilia.
It does not attempt to impose any moral codes, all it does is display the point at which something can be considered a mental illness.
Define children, and then maybe we’ll have a starting point.
That is part of it.
Also, when you only live to 20-25 at most, who is a child?
Up until the twentieth century, children were not anything special – they were just smaller, dumber people. This idea of “let the child be a child” is new.
Just for some historical context.