Shota for straight men. No /ss/ and no gay shota. Simple pictures of the beauty of boys and boyhood.

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>Listening to boys, particularly during early and middle adolescence, speak about their male friendships is like reading an old-fashioned romance novel where the female protagonist is describing her passionate feelings for her man. At the edge of manhood when pressures to conform to gender expectations intensify (Hill & Lynch, 1983), boys speak about their male friends with abandon, referring to them as people whom they love, and as Justin says, “this thing that is deep, so deep, it’s within you, you can’t explain it.” They tell their interviewers in great detail and with tremendous affect about their best friends with whom they share their deepest secrets and without whom they would “feel lost.” Set against a culture that perceives boys and men to be “activity-oriented,” “emotionally illiterate,” and interested only in independence, these stories seem surprising. The lone cowboy, the cultural icon of masculinity in the United States, suggests that what boys want and need most are opportunities for competition and
autonomy. Yet over 85% of the American boys we have interviewed throughout adolescence for the past 20 years suggest that their closest friendships - especially those during early and middle adolescence - share the plot of Love Story more than the plot of Lord of the Flies.

From Niobe Way's "Boys Friendships During Adolescence" (via Journal of Research on Adolescence)

>>3976259

>Yet when one looks at the research on adolescent boys, discussions of close friendships are almost entirely absent. When male friendships are discussed, they are often relegated to the superficial category of “buddies” and described as a “loose collections of peers that offer very little sharing or emotional support” (Biddulph, 2008, p. 40). Male friends are framed as back-slapping pals more interested in playing, competing, and boasting about various types of conquests than in talking together or sharing their inner lives (Oransky & Marecek, 2009). These relationships are, in essence, defined by their simplicity rather than by their complexity, emotional nuance, and depth ... Content analyses of the semistructured interviews of 135 boys, who were freshman in high school during the first year of my 3–5 year longitudinal studies of friendships, suggested three themes: (1) the importance of and desire for sharing secrets in their close friendships; (2) the importance of close friendships for their mental health; and (3) the loss of such friendships and/or trust as they transitioned from middle to late adolescence, although they continued to desire such friendships. These themes were evident in the interviews of over half of the boys in my studies, with themes such as the desire for intimacy and the importance of close friendships for mental health being evident in the interviews of over 85% of the boys

They might be straight
Not sure if accurate, though

>>3976456
Cute pic, I don't see any erotic subtext as far as I can tell.

Another great day to be straight

>he's still at it
This is sad. Just sad.

>>3976490
Me and many others. We are straight, we love being who we are - we value masculinity and want to protect and nurture it. That also means protecting it from the stain of "homoeroticism" where once male camaraderie, loyalty, and friendship once were.

I'm not gay. I just like to self-insert myself as a shota because they're cute and somewhat handsome than ugly and hairy adult. Shota is the best puberty sucks and should be an option

>>3976508
I self-insert as well. I think about the happy times where I was a boy and everything felt innocent and I felt free and everything felt big and alive. I didn't have the experience or the pain of adulthood, which is all I have now, unfortunately.

>>3976491
Stop with the fucking cringe larp you are in cute Male fucking troll

>>3976550
Why would someone troll on this board? There's like only 10 people including you and me here. stop being a gaycel schizo and post cute shotas.

>>3976554
nah you are just a troll who is obssed with that retarded concept of straight shota

>>3976491
You are debating with a Jew >>3976550
Nothing is sacred for them. Everything pure must be distorted and normalized that way.
They are ideologically possessed and must poison the perception of those who have no discernment.
Confusing others has become a way to cope with their delusion.

>>3976576
lol everyone i hate is a jew lol you are in cute male

>>3976582
They don't leave any stone unturned.

>>3976595
please put you retardeness in a board that is not cute male tourist

>>3976602
You will never distort the purest thing in creation.

>>3976609
lol if you care so much about purity lol get away from the fucking cute male board, you are a retarded tourist

>>3976673
You just reveled that you come here for impure reasons.
I come here for wholesome content. But there isn't a place where the wicked won't infiltrate to twist things, and behold, here you are.

>>3976673
>>3976602
>>3976556
>>3976550

stop shitting up the board with spam and appreciate cute sho’s anon,
post some pics or gtfo of the thread

>>3976681
You don't come here for wholesome reasons faggot you Sony fooling no one

>>3976882
I'd be wasting my time if I try to convince you otherwise, but the fact that "straight shota threads" trigger from the start >>3976490
says a lot about how intolerant you are to the idea of normal boy relationship and behaviors. And the reason for that is because you're a freak. You don't have a shotacon complex, you're not a boy lover. You're a degenerate pedophile with an agenda.

Its comforting to know that theres at least some sane people on this board

>>3976894
You're the pedophile, you are in fucking cute Male, stop the fucking larp you Sony fooling no one

>>3976894
You are a faggot deflecting dude

>>3976926
I wonder if you'd tell God the same if he echoed my message. You know he loves boys too... right? But here's the thing you can't differentiate because of your wickedness: there is a pure way of love. Something you wouldn't know a thing about because your Dad didn't express any of it to you. Instead, you were molested. That's the only version of "love" you know, and now you want to continue the cycle. Starting by perverting boy relationship so they fall into your level of misery.

Stop replying to the obvious shit stirrer, you morons.

>>3976969
the shit stirrer is the only one posting pictures

>>3976967
you are not god you are the most hypocritical being, stop comparing yourself to god idiot, you are just a retarded faggot

The fact that perversion of boys is treated normally here and is accepted is problematic. "Shotacon" takes the charm, innocence, and youthful masculinity of boys and sexualizes it, reducing the beauty of the boy into nothing more than an object to be used and exploited. This is a violation of something that should be considered sacred and cherished - the boyhoods that we've experienced as well as the lives of other boys. I like SFW shota because it reminds me of the joy of when I was a child. I think about the friends I had and moments we shared as boys together. To eroticize that special feeling is to harm that which was good for me, and I just can't do that.

>>3977010
You read my message and somehow thought I compared myself to God? LOL
>mfw
I'm the one defending the natural and perfect state of boys and their youthful masculinity. You're the one that opposes this statement and I'm the faggot in your judgement?
>"Just keep calling him a retarded faggot"
>That'll surely teach em'
said the discord tranny

>>3977031
>I like SFW shota because it reminds me of the joy of when I was a child
It really is this simple. Bless you anon.

>>3977040
Oh says the mtf tranny stop going to cute Male faggot

>>3977031
Peak faggotry here, gosh i Hate dumbasses like you that invade a thread for your retardeness

>>3977044
Here's an idea. I've explained why I like SFW shota and what the concept of this thread means to me as a straight man. How about you actually explain why straight men can't possibly enjoy SFW shota? Is it that hard to imagine that there are normal men out there that write stories and make art that doesn't eroticize boyhood experiences? Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, Tom Sawyer? How about the art of Pierre Joubert? Norman Rockwell?

>>3977043
You're the one that hasn't been posting pics because you're using one hand to dilate this whole time stfu. I'll always be a male and there isn't a day that passes by where I'm not grateful for that.

>>3977048
Stupid faggot in a board called cute Male
Tourist

>>3977055
>REEE IF YOU'RE NOT GAY-ING OR FEMINIZING BOYS YOU DON'T BELONG HERE
>>3976661 is that way

This one's my favorite.

>>3977068
faggot

>>3977071
Wrong thread

>>3976508
>I just like to self-insert myself as a shota because they're cute and somewhat handsome than ugly and hairy adult.
Based and same. I just wanna be a cute kid and live a comfy life.

>>3977084
well some of you admit you wanna be /cm/
(where you'll miss posting when you're 12"/cm/" below the monitor :P)

>>3976251 (OP)
You would have saved yourself a lot of headaches if you had omitted the "shota for straight men" part like I told you in the previous thread and just created a thread about cute boys being boys.

Also look at this tiny bnuuy <3. I doubt there will ever be a cuter picture than this in the thread.

>>3977119
I want these threads to be discussed oriented rather than just image dumps. The main thread should be SFW but that's obviously not the case with half the images being lewd and the discussion of the main shota thread being openly sexual. Straight men don't sexualize cute boys nor do we sexualize our own boyhood or experiences with other boys. Let the shota-schism happen if it has to.

>>3977126
stop invading threads tourist

>>3977132

oh my god i'm serious, no one gives a shit about your retarded little cat fight.
every time you out of the two of you speak it bumps the thread to the top with adding no new images, which even as some moralfag appears, as grating as he is way more than he needs to be, has the base decency to do
i do not care the reason you post cute boys, just fucking post them at least

like this:

frens

>Roger of Hoverdon, writing at the turn of the twelfth to the thirteenth century, describes the end of the French siege at Châteauroux as follows: "Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean." At first glance the passage appears unequivocal. What does it leave to interpretation? Richard Lionheart and King Philip Augustus loved each other "as their own soul" and share the same bed. Their affection is unapologetic; they make public gestures displaying it. The problem posed by the first glance is to explain how homosexuality could have asserted itself so baldly... at the highest level of power of the two greatest kingdoms of the twelfth-century west without raising comment... The text itself contains a few warnings against reading it as the mode of loving we call "homosexual." Henry II... "postponed his plans of returning to England until he could determined what plots this sudden love portended." This is the reaction of a betrayed general, not an outraged father. The king's only concern is strategy. His military campaign, not his family honor, is in danger. His sole response to his son's passion is a change in his travel plans. He sees "plots," not a gay love affair, portended by this sudden, vehement love.

From "Ennobling Love" by C. Stephen Jaeger

>>3977493
>It is possible for medieval writers to say - in public documents - that a king loved his courter vehemently, embraced him with the flames of intimate love, kissed him, slept with him, shared the same clothes, and ate from the same dish; it is possible for a cleric/courtier to say that he longs to kiss his archbishop-friend and to sink into his embraces, that he licks his "viscera," bathes his chest with his tears, and longs to fuse their two souls into one - and none of these formulations was received as an indication of an illicit erotic attachment... "Homosexual," "homoerotic," even "male friendship," are colored by the erotic. Even when the erotic is unstated the terms still operate in the same force field. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's term "homosocial" is useful. It sets sexuality to one side, eliminates its automatic inclusion, while holding its readiness. The discourse of male-male love displays on its surface sexuality vanquished and banished. Sexual desire and sexual intercourse can infiltrate secretly, but they do not govern it form their position of hiding...

I really do recommend this book for those interested in the history of male-male affection, especially for straight men who deeply care about male camaraderie and boys being boys.

This thread is based beyond belief

>>3977504retarded

>>3977497
pure sex

>>3977522
no u

>>3977522
Retarded shotas are cute.

>>3977586

>>3977588

>>3977532
Based femanon

Alright anons, what brings you here specifically? When did you realize you loved cute shota and saw the true beauty that is the nature of boyhood?

>>3977655
I've loved boys all my life.The first boy I remember thinking was beautiful was this one rich kid who's dad got mugged and shanked, he got really mad at me when I said his dad got shreked though.

>>3977686
I think it was just the nature of my friendships with other boys growing up. How I was able to so easily get along with them, bond with them so easily whereas girls were like an alien to me, even though that mystery of the opposite sex was something we wanted to study. But I think there's something special about that 'sameness' in a friendship or friend group that makes emotional connection and trust much easier and more comfortable.

>>3977690
I dont even care about sex or women anymore, I just wish I had a cute boy to lavish my affections on and spoil rotten.

>>3977702
me too. i had crushes on girls in high school but i don't think they liked me all that much. but i was very close with my boy friends in fourth grade. we'd play pokemon a lot and have sleepovers all the time. i dunno, boys are just easier to be with like this anon said
>>3977690

>>3978289
I wish I could be surrounded by beautiful boys 24/7, I'd rather listen to a cute boy ramble on passionately about whatever his autistic interest is than deal with some bpd having thot.and all the cookie cutter drama that entails. If only I could live in a boy paradise where boys could be intimate with each other without fear of being called gay.

>>3978293
>If only I could live in a boy paradise where boys could be intimate with each other without fear of being called gay.
yeah i think there's a lot of guys that want the same thing. my friends and i were pretty comfortable hugging each other when we were younger but then as soon as girls became a thing it's like they put all their focus on getting a girlfriend instead :c
i was just happy to be with them and i wish i could tell them how special they made me feel...

>>3978289
Heterosexual relationships are soulless and transactional. Nothing "genuine" about them. What even constitutes love in those relationships beyond biological preconditions and chemicals in the brain? Nothing. They can't truly love each other because they can't relate to each other in any way. Now, they've tried to fill that gap with consumerist nonsense such as "oh, you like this dumb fucking band too?! let's get married!". So disgusting, hollow and sick. It's not just heterosexuals, it's anything to do with women. They just can't love because they don't have a soul. Everything they do is hollow status preservation, like fucking automatons. They live just to prostitute themselves to the highest bidder. They were made to be soulless womb carriers by nature and there's no "loving" them or feeling kinship/understanding with them.
>>3978293
True that. It's a cruel, cruel world we live in. Makes me want to weep at how many boys will suffer under this evil gynocracy. If they actually show any real affection to each other that isn't performatively shallow (to fit the alphabet) then they will be socially destroyed. Seen it happen and had it happen to me when I was a kid, even before the current clown world.

>>3978295
When I was in middle school, I crushed on this other boy and we had an amazing connection. It was bliss. Then puberty hit and he didn't want anything to do with me because his parents made him hang out with these other normalfags. I had to pass him in the hall pretending that nothing had happened in high school and it was hell on earth. That was well over 8 years ago.

>>3978296
>>3978297
hm, i've only ever been on dates with girls. but the connection i had with other boys is different because it feels automatic, if that makes sense. like how in middle and high school there was a lot of pressure to prove myself and look more attractive for girls, but when i was with my boy friends i was comfortable and able to just be myself around them and didn't have to worry about anything.
>True that. It's a cruel, cruel world we live in. Makes me want to weep at how many boys will suffer under this evil gynocracy.
i mean girls have their problems, too. but boys are the forgotten ones and i don't think anyone really cares about boys. it's sad...

>>3978293
Based and same

>>3978301
>i mean, girls have their problems
they do not. enough with this "b-but girls have problems too...or something" when discussing the utter hell boys go through in this piece of shit world. women cant suffer. they are handed everything on a silver platter.

>>3977655
>Alright anons, what brings you here specifically?
I'm constantly on the look for more shotas, and /cm/ has essentially become the shota board.
>When did you realize you loved cute shota and saw the true beauty that is the nature of boyhood?
Since I was a kid. I always showed interest in boys, real and fictional, and while at first I thought it was mere admiration because they were pretty and had cool lives, with the years I began to realize that my love for boys wasn't disappearing and that it was more than platonic. Nowadays I think boys are the most beautiful thing in the world, and while part of my attraction for them is sexual and saddens me when they aren't in love with other boys, I still love everything they do and the mix of innocence, curiosity and mischievousness of their actions and reactions.

>>3978327
>Nowadays I think boys are the most beautiful thing in the world, and while part of my attraction for them is sexual and saddens me when they aren't in love with other boys, I still love everything they do and the mix of innocence, curiosity and mischievousness of their actions and reactions.
As an artist who primarily draws SFW shota and bishounen, it can sometimes be hard to explain my interests to someone who doesn't think about boyhood as much as I do. I want to capture what it felt like to be a boy and the experiences I had with other boys that felt very special and intimate to me. Does it also help that I find the body of the boy very beautiful? Yeah, absolutely. But the troubling part is that some people take my words or my work as erotic. It's frustrating because I want to draw an idealized version of my childhood. I don't view my boyhood relationships as romantic because I wasn't attracted to them in that way and romance just doesn't interest me either. Rather, they were like brothers to me who were even closer than family.

There is something truly special about boyhood, and even if we live in a cursed epoch that actively works against our affinities, there will be a time in the future that recognizes it for what it is. Ancient Greece is eternal and its spirit will triumph over the decaying corpse of modern civilization.

>>3978421
Boyhood is very beautiful thing, but no one gives it the attention or care it needs. Why is the Boy Scouts gone? Why are there no spaces for just boys to be themselves with other boys? How many places offer boys to be in a male environment without women teaching or "correcting" them? That's what felt so special about my own boyhood, that it was just us together, loving each other in the ways only we understood and knew how. I remember my friend and I in middle school would have sleepovers. We'd spend a lot of time shirtless or even wearing nothing but our underwear, and that was good for us because the body of the boy isn't perceived as scandalous as the female body. And so at night we'd share the same bed wearing basically nothing in the summer heat, and I remember how comfortable we were cuddling together with his arms around me and his skin against my chest. I tried describing that special type of love in this post:
https://boards.fireden.net/cm/thread/3929780/#q3930161
But this is why we need boys to be able to be with each other without the fear of having sexuality attached to their behavior. I'm straight but I haven't felt as loved by other girls as I did with my best friends.