Shota-con (ショタコンショタ) is a variant of graphic yaoi. The phrase derives from "Shotaro complex" (Shotaro being thought of as a typical name for a young boy) and is sometimes contracted further to shota. Different definitions are available. Some define it exclusively as comic art depicting a sexual relationship between an underage boy (usually prepubescent) and another male (adult or child.) Others use a looser definition, including any fiction (not just comic art), and sexual/erotic art depicting a lone underage boy, or an underage boy with a woman or older teenage girl. Some also use it refer to anyone (male or female) who's attracted to underage boys (and is not him/herself underage).

Loli-con is the female equivalent.

See also: hentai, yaoi, child pornography.