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More from child abuse facebook groups regarding your province (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

Do I understand correctly that you're saying these people are from a pro-child abuse Facebook group? Can you explain what MAPS are? I'm too scared to look it up myself in case it's a more loaded term than I realize.

It seems like some of the users are celebrating, but I think I'm gonna need a lot more context to understand what kind of fuckery is happening here.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

MAPs are pedos who don't like being called pedos. It stands for "minor attracted person".

Chronically online pedos invented this term because they want pedophilia to be recognized as a sexuality or a type of neurodivergence so that it would be protected under the same laws as other sexualities and/or mental disorders.

In other words it's their attempt to claim they have no choice but to engage in child abuse. Anyone who insists on using the term MAP is probably also a pedo.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

To be fair being attracted to minors IS a mental illness as those people never chose it and can hardly do much about it, except for taking therapy like you do with other mental illnesses.

Likewise, being about who they are attracted to and again being something they did not choose, it also IS a sexuality.

More than anything else it is a curse. Imagine having to live with an attraction to people you can’t hope of actually dating, imagine having no way to love somebody you’re attracted to without harming them.

Now those people I have seen in the “MAP” space have a tendency to actually favour acting on their urges one way or another which is horrible, so I have no problem with your last paragraph. What I do not like is the other two, framing pedos as wicked people.

There is a stigma on pedophilia which is justified but also framed very poorly. The behaviour should rightfully be stigmatised, but the people should be treated for what the are: mentally sick and in need of help.

The stigma on the people that is well exemplified in your second paragraph is exactly what makes it hard for morally sound pedophiles to go and seek help.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Oh great, another NAMBL or whatever the fuck it was called. Thank you for the detailed response, I'm gonna go wash my eyeballs now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can't speak to the broader context here but MAP stands for Minor Attracted Person. They like to call themselves that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ew. Thanks. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I've had to live with the knowledge and now you do too. 😐