This is an English summary of the second through fourth chapters of ショタコンのゆりかご (shotacon no yurikago = “the cradle of shotacon”) by shota researcher Budōuri Kusuko, published as a dōjinshi in 2007. Budōuri-san stresses that his essay only concerns commercial shota publications, not dōjinshi. The rise of commercial shota In the beginning, shortly after the … Continue reading The rise and fall of commercial shota magazines