In Japanese, the phrase was adopted to describe feelings of love and lust for young girls over adult women, which remains the phrase's common meaning. Lolicon is a Japanese portmanteau of " Lolita complex" ( ロリータ・コンプレックス, rorīta konpurekkusu), an English-language phrase derived from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) but in Japan more associated with Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex (1966, translated 1969), a work of pop psychology in which the author uses the term to describe adult male attraction to pubescent and pre-pubescent females. Cultural critics generally identify lolicon with a broader separation between fiction and reality in otaku sexuality. Opponents and supporters have debated if the genre contributes to child sexual abuse. Child pornography laws in some countries include depictions of fictional child characters, while those in other countries, including Japan, do not. The lolicon boom faded by the mid-1980s, and the genre has since made up a minority of erotic manga.Ī moral panic against "harmful manga" in the 1990s has made lolicon a keyword in manga debates in Japan. The artwork of the boom, strongly influenced by the round styles of shōjo manga (marketed to girls), marked a shift from previous realism and the advent of "cute eroticism" ( kawaii ero), an aesthetic now common in manga and anime more broadly.
During the " lolicon boom" in adult manga of the early 1980s, the term was adopted in the nascent otaku culture to denote attraction to early bishōjo (cute girl) characters, and later to only younger-looking depictions as bishōjo designs became more varied. The phrase "Lolita complex", derived from the novel Lolita, entered use in Japan in the 1970s, when sexual imagery of the shōjo (idealized young girl) was expanding in the country's media.
Associated with unrealistic and stylized imagery within manga, anime, and video games, lolicon in otaku (manga/anime fan) culture is understood as distinct from desires for realistic depictions of girls, or real girls as such, and is associated with the concept of moe, or feelings of affection and love for fictional characters as such (often cute characters in manga and anime).
The term, a portmanteau of the English phrase " Lolita complex", also refers to desire and affection for such characters ( ロリ, "loli"), and fans of such characters and works. In Japanese popular culture, lolicon ( ロリコン, also romanized as rorikon or lolicom) is a genre of fictional media in which young (or young-looking) girl characters appear in romantic or sexual contexts.
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