Baka desu: Azumanga Daioh Ep. 13

What is Lolicon?

Lolicon is..: Lolicon (ロリコン, Lolicon?), also romanized as rorikon, is a slang portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". In Japan, the term describes an attraction to girls below the age of consent, or an individual attracted to such a person. Outside Japan, the term is less common and most often refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein childlike female characters are depicted in an erotic manner. The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lolita, in which a much older man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl. The equivalent term for the sexualization of or attraction to young boys is shotacon. Some critics claim that lolicon contributes to actual sexual abuse of children,while others claim that there is no evidence for this, or that there is evidence to the contrary. Several countries have attempted to criminalize lolicon's sexually explicit forms as a type of child pornography.