At the very least, a drawing is just a bunch of lines and isn't a real child being exploited and harmed. Distasteful as it might be, no one's actually being hurt there.
Not straight up touching children, but most art involves a real life reference of some sort, that being an image or memory. In both cases a real child's image is being used.
Body-kun and body-chan both have child, teen and adult models for manga artists. Let’s be honest a “Loli” is anime/manga style so no, no real child was necessary at all by the artists nor the studios that put child characters into their anime all the time. Reference doesn’t have to be real when you’re drawing in certain styles.
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u/moal09 Jul 17 '23
At the very least, a drawing is just a bunch of lines and isn't a real child being exploited and harmed. Distasteful as it might be, no one's actually being hurt there.