It's really weird how people default to "hurr durr you just wanna masturbate to cartoons" No? Maybe some people do but most people in general enjoy looking at attractive characteristics. Especially in fictional media where you can idealize characters.
There's such a strange sex-negative wave that's going through most media in recent times, sometimes it's overt and other times it's minor things like the OP example where they just reduce or remove such things. Where it gets weird is that there's also a push to be more open and accepting about sex in general, usually by the same people that decry sexualized characters.
I truly don't understand it.
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