>>3926108Not true actually lol, If you read the Namu.wiki (
https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%87%BC%ED%83%80%EC%BD%98) and /ourguy/ Karl's video on shotacon origin, shota as a concept and as a genre was pioneered by women who wanted to break away from typical ikemen yaoi visuals to draw yaoi featuring younger and smaller guys. Like from the 80 to probably very early 2000s, shotacon was a genre *for* women. Even iconic shotas like Ciel Sebastian were known for their *female* fanbases, not their male ones. It's only up to a certain point in time that the demographic switched up and now shota-fes (and other adjacent media) is dominated by men. And even still, being a shotacon is still seen as a "women's thing" with the only high profile males I can think of who are open shotacons are Tsukushi (who equally likes lolicon), Axel Leda, and Akina Saegusa, compared to the HUGE plethora of popular female entertainment stars who publicly gush over little boys like Aoi Yuuki, Rie Takahasi, Suisei, Sho Aimoto, etc.
But with the popularity of Elusive Samurai, the prince reincarnation anime, and a few others suddenly bursting into popularity, it seems like women are finally becoming "alive" again in the shotacon and being more open with it (chilchuk fans are still in major denial) so the ratio will probably be more even in the near future compared to how male centric it feels right now
tl;dr you're wrong and I explain why.
