Minor Attracted Persons. They are quite abundant on Twitter.
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Unfortunately instead of being devoted to helping each other deal with their attraction (which I think was the original point) they often end up promoting shit like this instead. Or outright sharing child porn. Or their fantasies for what they'd like to do to children.
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Twitter seems to classify them as part of the LBTQ community
Meh. I don't have a problem with the concept of MAPs (and actually generally support it) in general.... When it actually IS a community dedicated to saying "this is how I feel. how I feel isn't okay, it hurts people, and I just want to know I'm not alone and maybe we can work together to develop coping strategies so I DON'T hurt people."
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More or less like a rehab program I guess.
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Instead it's used to try and champion pedophilia as a legitimate sexuality, and therefore defensible. Which is as insane as saying rape is a sexuality.
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Actually, it's literally the same thing since you cannot "have sex" with a child in any way, at any time, ever. All you can do is rape them.
Uh, if you have an affliction like pedophilia you aren't going to feel valid and loved until you get some pretty serious help to get to the root of your mental state and address it properly.
But yeah, @jasonmon , if you feel you have the stomach and the time for it, you may want to research the Twitter take on this stuff. As I mentioned in an above post, Twitter seems to classify people who talk this way and want to rape children as MAPs, making them a protected class somehow. You see a LOT of open depravity that is not remotely aimed at getting people help.
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Might be interesting to you at any rate
I’d agree that pedophiles are sick. If we can help, those we can help- we certainly should- TO BE CLEAR- alcoholics are often sick too- as are many who are abusive. We should help them too- but we still have to protect others from behaviors that endanger them and there are still consequences for something like drunk driving even if you are unwell and need help. That said...
Pedophilia, like many sexual or emotional or mental topics can quickly become muddy and uncomfortable if we look at it long and deep enough. Many people are fine with “school girl” fantasies, naughty teacher, babysitter- these are quite common as are things like sexualizing the infantilization of others (especially women...) with things like “daddy” and making ones voice higher pitched etc....
But as a thought exercise to those with partners they are committed to-if some “magic” or sci fi or such reverted your spouse or long term partner to a child’s body- same mind, same person.... how would you react? Would you stay with them? Would you be romantic- or even intimate- or would you- could you sustain a relationship for say- 10 or so years without those aspects until their body matured? Or what if it never would?
I’m not advocating or supporting pedophilia- the scenario I describe is obviously ludicrous. It’s just a thought exercise to examine things. An 18 year old is legal and widely socially acceptable- some may cheer you for dating an 18yo (especially at 25,35,50+..) or some may feel disgust- but “playing” as a high schooler or even younger with school kid costumes and teacher fantasies and such is acceptable with an adult why? Because they are mentally an adult right?
Of course we could say a “child looks different..” but that is t always the case. Putting asides dwarfism or rare medical conditions- some people don’t develop much or at all. It’s often used as an insult- but looking at the bodies or faves of some adults- there can often be what looks like a large pre teen in front of you. I have a male friend who is 5 foot 5 (giving them the benefit of fractions of an inch) die to their genetics and ethnicity- they barely grow ANY body or facial hair and are VERY baby faced- in their 30’s they still must wear a wrist band in casinos to avoid constant carding or attempts to escort them out.
I dated a woman under 5 feet. Baby faced, and many thought she looked like a child. She was also very “cutsie” in her speech etc. I’m again- NOT defending anyone. Im just saying that while I have a hardline stance against pedophiles and don’t even like dating people who are more than a few years younger than me AT MOST- I sometimes think about various scenarios and how society views them to try and deconstruct these things. From any angle- sex with kids is sick- but exploring the uncomfortable angles of hypotheticals is... interesting.
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Unfortunately instead of being devoted to helping each other deal with their attraction (which I think was the original point) they often end up promoting shit like this instead. Or outright sharing child porn. Or their fantasies for what they'd like to do to children.
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Twitter seems to classify them as part of the LBTQ community
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More or less like a rehab program I guess.
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Instead it's used to try and champion pedophilia as a legitimate sexuality, and therefore defensible. Which is as insane as saying rape is a sexuality.
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Actually, it's literally the same thing since you cannot "have sex" with a child in any way, at any time, ever. All you can do is rape them.
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Might be interesting to you at any rate