Talk:Lolicon/@comment-155699-20190727064856


 * In ancient Japan, it was socially acceptable for boys between the ages of 10-20 to have sex with adult men and women and also young girls their age. Boys in this age bracket were known as and were known for their youthful feminine beauty, could dress in female kimono, and practiced Geisha arts like flower-arranging or . Wakashu were effectively considered a third-gender that both males and females could form (temporary) relationships with without breaking taboo (as public homosexual relationships between adults (men and women) were frowned upon (although it was not an arrestable offence)). Wakashu boys were identified by how their hair was cut with a small shaved portion at the crown of the head and long forelocks at front and sides. It is unknown whether adult men and adult women were allowed to also publicly form relationships and have intercourse with girls between the ages of 10-20, however, as the era was known for sexual fluidity and apprentice geisha, courtesans and prostitutes began their professions around this age bracket, it is entirely possible that adults could form heterosexual and homosexual relationships with adolescent girls as well. After their coming of age ceremony at age 20, wakashu boys became adult men and were forbidden from relationships with other adult men (although they could start pursuing Wakashu boys if they desired). By the late 1860's, when Japan began mimicking the social moores of the west, the Wakashu age bracket was abolished and homosexuality in all forms became an arrestable offence. The age bracket for boys later became known as, with the subject and imagery of young men/boys with extreme feminine beauty later becoming known as.