>>3654630Most shotas don't know what they are, because they have not been indoctrinated into believing what they should want (take the opposite for example, a lot of kids are being told that being gay is "awesome" nowadays, and a ton of boys are "coming out" as gay; there is a lot of indoctrination on what a shota likes); there is an actual natural way to develop the shota's feelings though, and a person they idolize as big brother/mentor usually blurs the line.
If you ever had a shota friend being a dude they find "attractive" (even in a platonic way at first), you'd know how easy that mentor attraction could turn into an actual sexual attraction, this is somewhat natural and historically documented in certain civilizations; we don't properly call it "gay" because it feels like something else, something ancient Greeks and Romans somehow normalized. I used to be apprentice and I was mentor at some point, all very natural (and legal as we were within age range), I ended up marrying a woman my age, but nothing will rob me of those good memories.