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by claudiawerner 1200 days ago
>In the same way I can decide someone being in love with an underage child... someone being in love with an anime character[0]... someone being in love with their dog[1]... is dodgy

Are you seriously comparing pedophilia with being in love with an anime character? For what it's worth, there's a lot of research on the "2D complex" and moe, in particular in the context of Japan - and the intersection therein with asexuality and fictosexuality. Your moral judgement of those ways of feeling means very little. "Dodgy" doesn't mean anything other than "Ew, I don't like that" - which, ironically, I'll agree is a 'valid' way to feel.

It's a shame that it's still socially acceptable to cast moral aspersions on how people feel and appeals to normalcy in 2023.

In another comment you mentioned the appeal of these relationships - the idea of a safety net provided by an object of desire that will never leave you. I think that this is mostly wishful thinking to justify to yourself why you think that these sexualities are wrong or the product of some kind of disorder. You have no evidence that most people with a 2D love orientation turn their attractions this way because of that reason.
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ClapperHeid 1200 days ago 

  >Are you seriously comparing pedophilia with being in love with an anime character?...
Yes. Comparing not equating. There is a difference. And I think you are confusing the two.

  >people with a 2D love orientation...
Welcome to the 21st century. Give any fuckwittism a scientific sounding name and... Hey Presto!... it's now a valid form of behaviour and you must not mock it or you're a <something>-ist.
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claudiawerner 1200 days ago
I didn't call you an anything-ist. The term is used in the studies done on these people, unless you'd rather there just not be a term at all. Whether you think it's "valid" is up to you, but we can say this about any sexual orientation. I'm sure to some people homosexuality is not "valid", and that's fine. You're allowed to have an opinion.

Arpopos the 21st century - this is actually a good point! It's a very 21st century form of attraction, isn't it? And keeping up with the times can be good.

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ClapperHeid 1200 days ago 

  >unless you'd rather there just not be a term at all...
I think "mentalist" is a pretty adequate umbrella term.
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