Nevri, this is the thread I was talking about http://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/6606-shoujo-ai-vs-yuri
I'll check it later.
as far as I know, lolicon and shotacon are a person who love young girls and boy, and shoujo ai and shounen ai are made by stupid westerners who don't want to use yuri and yaoi.
Ok, so about stupid westerners. That is exactly the irony of them making up those term. Little off topic example. If you ever heard about or practiced kendou, you probably heard word bokken. Word which doesn't exist. Americans who tried learn about it misread kanji and read it as bokken instead of bokutou. It caught on anyway, but Japaneses never use it.
Here happened similar thing. Some Americans tried to come up with japanese therm for boys love, so they joined words shounen (young boy) and ai (love) thinking it will be meaning boys love. But little they knew, that Japaneses actually already were using this term to refer to pedophiles. Hence confusion about those terms.
Oh, I totally forgot about lolicon and shotacon. If I understand correctly, both set of terms means basically the same: "person with preference for young boys/girls". The main difference is when and who uses it. Shota/lolicon are terms that anime/manga otakus are using, since they are actually abbreviation for shota/loli complex. We all knows that lolis and shotas character stereotype, so otakus concluded that characters who are into them are shotacons and lolicons. Basically the friendlier terms to say main character is a pedophile.
In news report or between no-otaku people, Japaneses while use shounen ai, since, let's be honest, who would seriously took reporter saying that police catch 40 years old lolicon?
EDIT/ Ok, I read that other thread. If you want to continue it, we can use it. Just post there instead of here.
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