The good: A quick Google says it's not. This is a troll account apparently using the profile picture of some other users.
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The Bad: THIS is a troll. But there are a LOT of people on Twitter and other places pushing this type of thinking - and they mean every. Word. And calling people out on it is often an oddly easy way to get banned for some reason. (I say "oddly" ironically because it's honestly par for the course for that website)
The problem I see with this is that the picture suggests that he's gay (and German but that's irrelevant) and there are already enough people who somehow claim that gays are all pedophiles. To them, a post like this might prove their point. Enough people who see it won't notice that it's a troll account.
Greek fire spreads when you try to put it out with water. Just sayin'.
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· 4 years ago
A pedophile is someone who is sexually attracted to children exclusively. Now here's a very unpopular fact (not an opinion, a fact) but being a pedophile does NOT automatically mean someone is abusing or even touching children, or watching other people abusing children (illicit porn). All pedophiles may have fantasies that most people will find nauseating but unless someone is molesting a child, they are NOT child molesters. Otoh a lot of cases of sexual abuse of children are not committed by pedophiles. The respective numbers are all estimates, and naturally, there's a grey area here, but the idea that every pedophile is sexually abusing children or wants to do so is as wrong as it can get.
@mialinay bear in mind that I'm pretty sure the troll is intending to take advantage of that stereotype. I don't know if it's a malicious deliberate attack on gays, or if it's just meant to make as big a trashfire as possible, but either way they chose to use a gay profile pic deliberately (and the actual owners of the pic were NOT happy).
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That said: anyone who is willing to use this as proof that all gays are pedophiles already had their stupid mind made up to begin with and there was probably no hope of ever convincing them otherwise. Most people I've encountered who dislike gay people are at least intelligent enough to comprehend that there is a great big giant WHOPPER of a difference between having sex with a consenting adult and raping a child
@darkness_within people use "MAP" to describe what you're talking about now.
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MAP = Minor Attracted Person. Which is part of why the poster is tagging "nomap."
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The scientific term for pedophilia may be someone who has those inclinations but doesn't act on them, but that's not how the term is used in society - which is why MAP got started in the first place.
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Unfortunately the MAPs have no bloody idea how to properly regulate the insanity that goes on (and many actual abusers are among them) and often instead of being a safe place where they can talk about getting help and working through it, it's also used as yet another way of sharing horrifying fantasies, talking about actual children, and sharing pornography with actual child victims
technically no, pedophilia isn't a sexual orientation, at least no more than being sexually attracted to people over the age of 60 is.
pedophilia would be classified as a kink and, as with any other sex act, engaging in it with, or in the presence of, a protected person (usually this means children and sometimes adults with extremely severe learning disabilities) is HIGHLY illegal and immoral.
However, the vast majority of people that are pedophiles will never do anything with it. statistically those that take advantage of a child in a sexual manner tend to do it for the power trip, targeting the child because their victim was the most vulnerable person available to them and aren't actually pedophiles. Had Jannette from accounting been super fucking drunk after the quarterly interdepartmental scrabble night they likely would have taken that option over the child as its "safer" than the child without lowering the power trip.
Yes a lot of pedophiles find the strength to go see a therapist and not act on it. I remember a book I've read, the author had met a pedophile in prison (he had comitted the crime) and others too that had taken control and sought help. The story was the story the criminal would have dreamed of, if it was possible to have the love story without hurting the child, and in the book it evolved into a respectful wait and then a story between the guy and the girl once she was an adult, as the guy regretted deeply what he had done. It was a very powerful read, as the author did not treat the matter slightly and showed what happened in everyone's minds without either being judgemental or seeking excuses. Apparently some people have been inspired to go to therapy after reading it too, as it showed them that what they wanted could not exist.
one thing i will add to that just so there isnt any ideas put in peoples head by bad wording.
there isnt any inherent push for a pedophile to do the sex acts any more than there is with vanilla straight person or a bdsm kinky person.
being a pedophile doesnt suddenly make someone not a normal person in all other regards and it doesnt require someone to dig down and find strength to not rape/take advantage someone any more than any other person who happens to see someone they find attractive has to resist raping them which is to say, not at all.
If pedophilia was a sexual orientation then pedophiles wouldn't have other sexual orientations but they do. Most pedophiles are heterosexuals, some are gay or bi etc.
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· 4 years ago
BDSM is a sexual orientation as well. Asexuality is, too.
I'm worried that it is though
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The Bad: THIS is a troll. But there are a LOT of people on Twitter and other places pushing this type of thinking - and they mean every. Word. And calling people out on it is often an oddly easy way to get banned for some reason. (I say "oddly" ironically because it's honestly par for the course for that website)
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That said: anyone who is willing to use this as proof that all gays are pedophiles already had their stupid mind made up to begin with and there was probably no hope of ever convincing them otherwise. Most people I've encountered who dislike gay people are at least intelligent enough to comprehend that there is a great big giant WHOPPER of a difference between having sex with a consenting adult and raping a child
.
MAP = Minor Attracted Person. Which is part of why the poster is tagging "nomap."
.
The scientific term for pedophilia may be someone who has those inclinations but doesn't act on them, but that's not how the term is used in society - which is why MAP got started in the first place.
.
Unfortunately the MAPs have no bloody idea how to properly regulate the insanity that goes on (and many actual abusers are among them) and often instead of being a safe place where they can talk about getting help and working through it, it's also used as yet another way of sharing horrifying fantasies, talking about actual children, and sharing pornography with actual child victims
pedophilia would be classified as a kink and, as with any other sex act, engaging in it with, or in the presence of, a protected person (usually this means children and sometimes adults with extremely severe learning disabilities) is HIGHLY illegal and immoral.
However, the vast majority of people that are pedophiles will never do anything with it. statistically those that take advantage of a child in a sexual manner tend to do it for the power trip, targeting the child because their victim was the most vulnerable person available to them and aren't actually pedophiles. Had Jannette from accounting been super fucking drunk after the quarterly interdepartmental scrabble night they likely would have taken that option over the child as its "safer" than the child without lowering the power trip.
there isnt any inherent push for a pedophile to do the sex acts any more than there is with vanilla straight person or a bdsm kinky person.
being a pedophile doesnt suddenly make someone not a normal person in all other regards and it doesnt require someone to dig down and find strength to not rape/take advantage someone any more than any other person who happens to see someone they find attractive has to resist raping them which is to say, not at all.