Jeeze guys, you think animated characters are bad? I bet you guys probably get turned on by the models in magazines. Did you know that those aren't real girls either? Oh sure, they were, but then the CG editors got to them. The used CG to shrink their wastes, change their eye color and dialate their eyes to give your subconcious mind the impression that they were arroused. They took off any wrinkles or ruffles that they noticed, trimmed back ears if they stuck out at all, and lengthened the legs on them to appeal to the concept that men like long legs. People aren't ashamed to get off on *that* now are they? C'mon now.
Besides, obviously if people are arroused by a cartoon they aren't thinking of that woman in question as a cartoon, they are translating her into someone who is a real person in their mind. Nobody can get off to a 2d outline filled in with solid colors, it takes your imagination to bring that person to life. It is not as sick as some of you would like to stand up and show off that it is.