Question about 'Shota' style genre tag?

[naosu]

Will a shota genre tag get in trouble, or skirt the law? What do you think about this?

The idea of a ... maybe a well endowed 'Hero' who is actually younger than he should be and under age with a milf like harem seems like a fun concept to write about. But I'm worried about if it will skirt around legal issues?

Does a harem or romance story really have to be over 18 anyway? And is that affected by if 'love scenes' are hinted over but not clearly shown?

And there's gray areas too. Like, OK what if the shota hero uses transformation magic to get older temporarily? Is that a violation still? Or what if the love interest looks at him being 16 and thinks... I could 'do this and that' if only he were 2 years older, maybe I'll give him an aging potion to be +2 years. Although if she did that, it would sense that she had the means and money for those kinds of expensive alchemy potions that she'd try out other alchemy potions also like a +C--k size potion, a performance enhancing potion also.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

The idea of a ... maybe a well endowed 'Hero' who is actually younger than he should be and under age with a milf like harem

@owotrucked You have to help your brother in arms.

 

[Anonjohn20]

A lot of the shota stories here, I noticed, have stopped uploading. Whether it's because they had a bad author or because the author was banned, I don't know.

For example:
In Another World Where Religion Prohibits Anal
Moral Reversal

 

[naosu]

A lot of the shota stories here, I noticed, have stopped uploading. Whether it's because they had a bad author or because the author was banned, I don't know.

For example:
In Another World Where Religion Prohibits Anal
Moral Reversal

Wow you have some interesting titles there. LOL> I never thought I'd see the day a story would go up with Anal in the title! XD Although moral reversal seems extremely appealing now.

 

[Anonjohn20]

Although moral reversal seems extremely appealing now.

Not sure why. They are both in hiatus; as a matter of fact, I just looked through the series finder, and every story with shota and smut is in hiatus except one where the synopsis warns that the shota grows up into an adult in chapter 1.

 

[naosu]

Not sure why. They are both in hiatus; as a matter of fact, I just looked through the series finder, and every story with shota and smut is in hiatus except one where the synopsis warns that the shota grows up into an adult in chapter 1.

Then it sounds like they are curbing them. :O

 

[Anonjohn20]

Then it sounds like they are curbing them. :O

Honestly, I don't mean to kinkshame, but lolis and shotas should be getting protected, not sexualized.

Also, I know different sites have what you want. The Chinese site known as Webnovel has tons of what you're looking for. The only thing I hate about that site is that you can only read/unlock 1 chapter a day, and every couple of months the chapters you've unlocked reset, making you unlock them again if you want to reread the story.

 

[naosu]

Honestly, I don't mean to kinkshame, but lolis and shotas should be getting protected, not sexualized.

Also, I know different sites have what you want. The Chinese site known as Webnovel has tons of what you're looking for. The only thing I hate about that site is that you can only read/unlock 1 chapter a day, and every couple of months the chapters you've unlocked reset, making you unlock them again if you want to reread the story.

Wouldn't forced behavior like that end up making readers starting to make copies of chapters they are reading? :O (Scary, I don't want that.)

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Wouldn't forced behavior like that end up making readers starting to make copies of chapters they are reading? :O (Scary, I don't want that.)

Haven't been to that site but I think the software would limit that to screen shots only, which is a PITA to read later.

 

[Anonjohn20]

Haven't been to that site

You're so lucky. I genuinely gave the site a shot to read a hypnosis/mind control isekai smut, and after two weeks I decided I'd rather drop the story than only be able to read one to two chapters a day (and if you miss a day, the daily tokens do not accumulate). The authors on that site are encouraged to publish daily, so it's never satisfying 800-1,500-word chapters but rather 400-800-word chapters.