>>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.