>>2712242Because anon has aspergers or something and stubbornly believes "shota" means "little boy".
Because loli is short for lolicon or "lolita complex", that is a girl seeking a father substitute. Lolicon (genre) however, presumes a certain demographic. Loli, the girl, lolicon, the man fostering/grooming. The assumption is that shota, short for shotacon, is a gender swapped equivalent. Simply pedos for boys. But it's a completely different psychological complex. Oedipus complex and Electra complex are seemingly gender reversals of each other on the surface. Shota and Loli are less so.
While Loli comes from Lolita, the name of a fictional character (most complexes are named after people or character). Shota comes from an actually word for experiencing something for the first time. That is, the complex can been seen as either a preoccupation with deflowering or being someone's first, or losing one's virginity and entering "manhood".
Those might sounds like completely different concepts, but it's kind of a cultural thing in asia where phimosis commonly persists into adulthood. Which is why in Shotacon (genre) stories they feature a baby sitter abusing their authority and taking pleasure in being someone's first, but more commonly, boys comparing dicks as if foreskin that retracts past the glans elevates them to manhood like it's a competition.
So while the association with "little boys" is fair, it's misleading because you could put a movie like American Pie into the shotacon genre since they about highschool/college kids obsessed with losing their virginity.
Although it's not generally accepted term, you could say Shotacon is just another name for the Alexander Complex. That is, boys preoccupied with appearances and the fear of losing to competition. Trading "First Place" for just "being first" - in the case of female babysitters who reason boys will move on to other women.
