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A pair of pink ballet slippers, owned by Amy Winehouse. Size 6.

A pair of pink ballet slippers, owned by Amy Winehouse. Size 6.

It would be weird and fucked up if you were purchasing comic books of children being physically beaten too. Why do we need to have these kinds of materials available? Who does it serve? Does it serve children, to have some of the most heinous crimes to be committed against them casually consumed as leisure? Does it serve education about child sex abuse for these materials to be available as a tolerated form of entertainment? We should be asking: what exactly is the purpose of these materials such as lolicon and shotacon?

Because if the fictionalized depictions of the abuse of the marginalized and vulnerable serves as a mass produced commodity sold to the public freely and it doesn’t serve the interests of the subjects of those depictions, then it must serve the interests of capital and patriarchy who normalize all sorts of oppressive violence as entertainment.