I feel like that's the result of an anime culture that often pushes fucked up pornographic content right up against mainstream content with no compartmentalization of any sort. "On'na no ko", "shoujo", "otoko no ko", "shounen". Japan has been around far longer than that, there have naturally been countless kids in Japan, and so there's been plenty of need for words to refer to them without adding a sexualization component to it. The terms "loli" and "shota" derive from fictional works from the 1950s, the former in particular being a work about a pedophile. "Loli" and "shota" get thrown around as if they mean "girl" and "boy", but they don't. One thing that strikes me as particularly glaring is how it's bled into the very language of the international anime fandom.
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