is shotacon illegal
Throwing people in jail for having sick fetishes is just about as communist as you can get. It's illegal for the same reason buying marijuana from unlicensed dealers is illegal. It promotes the distribution and production of child porn. However, lolicon and shotacon are depictions. They are not real and hence no one is harmed in its production. Any logical person would realize this, and although lolicon and shotacon are legal in the United States, there is no differentiation in Canada between the it and child pornography. Thus, considerations aside, possessing shotacon or lolicon is equal in punishment to that of actual child pornography.