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Is a slang portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". The phrase is a
reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lolita, in which a much older man
becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl. In Japan, the term is
used to describe an attraction to girls below the age of consent, or an
individual attracted to such a person. Outside Japan, the term most often refers
to a genre of manga and anime where childlike female characters are depicted in
a sexualized manner or engaged in sexually explicit acts. The equivalent term
for the sexualization of or attraction to young boys is shotacon. |