>>3982990
>I remember reading somewhere that, when asked why they liked shotas, a big number of shotacons answered that their childhood was frustrating and seeing shos enjoying themselves helped relieving the pain because it allowed them to imagine a different past that wasn't so depressing.
It's not really a sexual thing, but rather that it was only boys in my childhood that made me feel alive and validated my existence. The pain of having to prove one's worth as a human being to their own parents or to a possible lover is an uncomfortable, anxious feeling that has only made me desire to go back to my childhood where boys were together simply by virtue of being the same. Same body, same interests, same dreams and goals. There's no shame or guilt in being vulnerable with someone who mutually shares that same level of compassion and intimacy with you. Ideally, we'd foster and enhance that level of connection by creating more boys-only spaces like when we had the Boy Scouts, but our insistence on both sexes being the same and better guided by women only inhibits this special type of intimacy from happening.