Why draw porn of underage characters?
Here is incomplete list of perfectly valid reasons someone might draw, write, or seek out porn of underage animated characters:
- Because they want to.
- They're a pedophile who's learned that getting off on fictional cartoon characters is a healthy, harmless outlet for attractions that they obviously shouldn't act on in reality.
- They find the characters hot, but in a way that's totally divorced from their ages. After all, we're talking about some vaguely person-shaped lines and solid colors; it's not as if the characters look like real actual kids.
- They're processing their own trauma, maybe without realizing it.
- They like being edgy and transgressive—possibly for the sake of affirming their artistic agency, or stress testing free speech norms, or getting a kick out of people's reactions.
- They're obsessed with every aspect of their blorbos' fictional lives, and sex is a big part of many people's lives—including, yes, teens and even younger kids.
- Their hobby has influenced their sexuality or vice versa, as hobbies are wont to do.
- They find nudity aesthetically pleasing.
- They enjoy playing around with power dynamics.
Personally, my brain treats underage cartoon characters as kids within the context of a narrative, but on the other hand not actually kids since they're made of lines and colors that only vaguely resemble humans. So I can write and consume underage, and I can think about it as underage from a narrative or intellectual perspective, without triggering the "no no no what the fuck no" instinct that would normally happen at the thought of real children. This is neat because I care a lot about adolescent sexuality and the various ways that adult society fails to acknowledge or accommodate it and how this in turn harms kids, and it's nice to be able to explore that comfortably in fiction.
Humans are diverse and weird, our artistic endeavors doubly so. If you think you know why someone's making something, you're probably wrong. If you think you know why everyone's making something, you're definitely wrong.