yeah, I agree, the top level comment in this thread is gatekeeping too much. the internet has good places for people like OP and some of them are lemmy homeservers.

Better fictional than real. Fuck sake, every time a professional psychiatrist or other professional in the field of studying behaviour. Speaks on the topic the same God damn point is made over and over and over.

Fictional characters reduce real harm. Give the freaks a safe space and moderate it properly and you are literally helping reduce actual harm.

Prohibition NEVER works. How many god damn times will people try to ban something only to find they have made the problem worse before they realize it doesn't work.

The hard part is the moderation cause no one wants to be in charge of it and you can't let people self moderate addictions and mental issues.

Actually, I was curious why someone with a <1-day-old account here was coming in like "We need a community dedicated to Megumin 😣" and posting Asuka ass shots, which was an instant red flag they'd been abruptly banned from Reddit for doing some really gross shit but still needed their fix somewhere else. I forgot that Reddit doesn't say what a user is banned for anymore, though, so I just clicked the first live link on the Wayback Machine to see if I was right. This process took a cumulative two-ish minutes.

Lo and behold, they were "joking" about "licking [their] cousin's underwear while she's wearing it", which OP chalks up to having "different tastes".