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Cute Anonymous
Let's put the c back in /cm/. Cute shota thread, gogogo!
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In b4 drama
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>>179249
Yeah really.

>>179246
Unless you want to be yelled at, learn what shota is and use the term properly. It is not worksafe pics of little boys.
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>>179809

Yet, people can use the term 'lolis' to include worksafe pictures?
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>>179890
Not if they don't want to look like idiots, they can't. The loli and shota genre is smut. It must have at least one child doing something sexual in it to be classified as such.

A great example was given last time this debate popped up that sums it up nicely without delving into the nitty gritty :
> "Calling the boys involved in shota 'shotas' is exactly the same as calling the men involved in yaoi 'yaois', and is retarded."
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Um... garghl. I wrote this before, but "shotakon" is a word to describe someone who's basically a pedophile. When people speak of "shota" images it means images that a pedophile would like. That can be boys having sex or just a naked boy or a boy in underwear or shorts blarghlbarghl. There's no clear line. (And I'm using the term pedo very loosely here, for the sake of argument.)

Let's make a rule for this read: anyone who wishes to bitch must post a picture!
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Momiji pwns j00
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>>180050
You're thinking of Shotaro complex. Shota itself is material with little boys with the intent to sexually arouse the viewer. It can be one boy standing naked, two boys masturbating, several boys having sex etc. but by definition at least one sexualized little boy is required for it to be shota. Otherwise it's just a drawing of a kid and NOT shota.

Also, who is this character? I've seen him all over /a/ but no one ever actually said who he is.
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Just look at the rules. Global rule #3 says we are not allowed to post loli/shota outside of /b/, and yet threads/images of young characters are never deleted and are literally everywhere, so a simple worksafe drawing of a kid cannot be shota/loli because if any kid image were, we would never have ANY character under 13 ANYWHERE other than /b/.

That is more than enough proof.
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>>180085
I won't disagree. The keyword is "sexualized", that's a highly subjective word, no? After all, someone with a shoutaro complex could be aroused by something other people wouldn't even notice, like, a boy in shorts.
Since we're talking about drawings here it's probably the artist's intent that counts, though the intent isn't always obvious.

What I'm trying to say is, shota is not necessarily "smut".

(and for people to start up drama whenever someone uses a term in a way they don't agree with is kinda unnecessary too)
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>>180094

Exactly. If you just say 'cute young boys' you may not get what you're looking for. Actually that sounds even more perverted... To me 'shota' is a term used to define the type of charcter. It's the same way someone calls a suggestive looking young girl a 'lolita'. If you're going to argue that's wrong, say that to the majority of the people here and elsewhere who use the word 'loli' freely. People are just so much more anal about the word 'shota' it seems...
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WTF at drama. OP is merely asking for cute boys. Doesn't the word shota literally mean young boys?
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>>180144
No. Lolita is different from loli the genre. Most people realize that shota/loli is sexual material, and you will most certainly NEVER see a Japanese person refer to young characters as "shotas/lolis". In fact they will look at you funny if they hear you do it. That is purely a western misuse of the word, much like some westerners still misuse 'yaoi' and think it is anything that even remotely hints at gay, but it isn't.

You can misuse it all you want, but you will continue to be made fun of and bitched at if you can't learn the correct usage of terms.

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No it doesn't.
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>>180153

Then how come when I go to tinami.com and search for ??? (shota) many of the sites turning up have no 18+ content and are perfectly harmless in nature, yet have the word in their site description? (With "15-20 years" given as the general age of their characters.)

Aren't you misusing the word?
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>>180160
No. About 90% of Japanese sites with adult content (that do not have a big "you must be old enough to view porn" sign on the front page) have what they call an under site, which is often either a hidden link and they give you hints to find it, or it is password protected, with either quizzes like the KH fanart sites or a username and pass that is nestled between the other text throughout the site. Or they could simply link to shota sites in their bookmark section, or talk about shota, have fanart of characters from shota anthologies, say that they are fans of shota etc.
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>>180172
I see nothing of that sort on many of those sites, really. And yes, I can read Japanese.
Sorry, I think you're just making assumptions there.
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>>180195
I did not say every single site does that, but there are many, many reasons that a site could mention shota without the actual images in the site being shota. It isn't just shota either, any other word would bring up sites with content other than what you specify, in any language.
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<-- Harry & Sirius :D

>>180208
The site owners mention shota in their own site description. In their keyword lists. Do you know Tinami? But, you know. If you wish to use the word the way you do, that's cool. I only wish people wouldn't flame others without having any sort of proof for anything. Discussion is one thing.
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>>180224
What? But there isn't any flaming in this thread. Flaming is calling names and being assholes, no one on either side has done that here. It's quite civil actually.
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I was thinking of the last shota thread in particular. xD
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Why can't I see this ammount of drama in /c/ when they post obviously loli things?
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>>180243
Because worksafe pics of little girls isn't loli =/
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Shota: Serious Business

OP here. The debate doesn't bother me, since everyone is posting images as well. Let me put it this way. I simply use 'shota/shota-looking/shotas/shotaish' as a parallel to 'lolita' for lack of a better or more fitting word. I have used it many times this way and so have others I know. I'm not stupid enough to use the word in a situation where it would obviously be taken the wrong way. It's all about time, place, and context. It's just much easier than typing 'cute little boys' every time. As 'lolita' spawned 'lolicon', why not the other way around? It's obvious from this thread people got the message, and no adult content was accidently posted. It's really not worth the fuss you guys. Now enjoy the cute~
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That's Negi Springfeild from Negima! He only dress like that for one scene and on the cover. It's distrubingly cute on him. LMAO.

And I LOLed at drama. Wasn't the last thread like this enough?
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it was ok this time. people were discussing and not threatening each other.