Lolicons and the challenge of the ethical limits of fiction

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on the limits of fiction taking as an example the fictional genre called “lolicon”, abbreviation for “lolita complex”, this name is directly influenced by the novel “Lolita” written by Vladmir Nabokov, which tells the story of an adult man who has sex with a child. As a background, this reflection will help us to examine the problem of the ethical limits of fiction in the most diverse forms of media, whether they are movies, novels, manga and games. In other words, we dispute, from a moral and ethical point of view, why fictions involving murder are accepted while fictional works involving sexual abuse against children are not accepted.