I don't think there's a real scientific study you could do, but in the linked post the argument is made that it's one of the contributing reasons to why Japan has such a lower rate of those crimes than other similarly-developed countries. But then you have to consider that Japan's sexual assault rate is likely greatly under-reported (as it is in most countries, but especially in socially conservative ones like Japan tends to be on this issue). But all of their other crime rates are lower, so I would expect sexual assault to be lower too - but then that damages the argument that lolicon is some kind of "release valve" for potential child predators.
Unless there's research I don't know about, I don't think you can draw a conclusion on this topic logically.
I don’t think there’s a real scientific study you could do
Yeah I don't know either, I've never studied psychology. I just figured that if Freud can say with authority that men want to fuck their moms, someone out there should be able to figure it out.
Also, the crime comparison argument in that link is ridiculous since Japan has lower overall rates of crime anyway and the numbers are for rape, not specifically crimes against children.
It's also frustrated by the fact that Japan simply doesn't consider certain things criminal. Child pornography was outlawed as recently as 2015, but the adult video industry hasn't really changed much and Japanese police haven't been investigating AV producers suspected of using underage actors. Then there's the existence of "junior idols" who often pose for sexually suggestive photographs that would be considered child pornography in any other country but aren't under Japanese law. Unlike with lolicon there's no "it's not real children" defense that can be mounted with that shit, it is 100% legal child sexual exploitation.
I don't think there's a real scientific study you could do, but in the linked post the argument is made that it's one of the contributing reasons to why Japan has such a lower rate of those crimes than other similarly-developed countries. But then you have to consider that Japan's sexual assault rate is likely greatly under-reported (as it is in most countries, but especially in socially conservative ones like Japan tends to be on this issue). But all of their other crime rates are lower, so I would expect sexual assault to be lower too - but then that damages the argument that lolicon is some kind of "release valve" for potential child predators.
Unless there's research I don't know about, I don't think you can draw a conclusion on this topic logically.
Yeah I don't know either, I've never studied psychology. I just figured that if Freud can say with authority that men want to fuck their moms, someone out there should be able to figure it out.
Also, the crime comparison argument in that link is ridiculous since Japan has lower overall rates of crime anyway and the numbers are for rape, not specifically crimes against children.
It's also frustrated by the fact that Japan simply doesn't consider certain things criminal. Child pornography was outlawed as recently as 2015, but the adult video industry hasn't really changed much and Japanese police haven't been investigating AV producers suspected of using underage actors. Then there's the existence of "junior idols" who often pose for sexually suggestive photographs that would be considered child pornography in any other country but aren't under Japanese law. Unlike with lolicon there's no "it's not real children" defense that can be mounted with that shit, it is 100% legal child sexual exploitation.