Hi guys, this is gonna be my intro post. you can call me still, I'm 24, and i've been working through issues around pedophilia as long as i can remember. I'm a very chaste person, but when i triggered by something "pedo"-related i get very very hypersexual. I don't like being so into pedo stuff, but i know i can't change it... I play video games, do programming, and watch movies in my free time. I'm queer, and want nothing more than to have a partner that wont judge me, and leave all this behind... but hello people, i love you all. p.s. I've been here a bunch before under different names, just haven't come back since i quit certain things.
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One of the things that causes people to feel uncomfortable with specific relationships is the idea of the power struggle.
For example, western culture promotes that certain relationships are taboo and are inappropriate. This includes relationships such as workplace relationships as well as student/teacher relationships. Even when these relationships are with consenting adults, they come with strong taboos that cause people to feel uncomfortable. This is caused by the observed positions of power that arise from relationships in which one individual has power over someone else in a way that can be abused.
I used to feel this way myself. I would find certain relationships uncomfortable, especially those with age gaps, or those with neurodivergant and dependant individuals. It was impossible to simply look on the outside of the relationship, and assume it was abusive or manipulative. Who has the power over who? And are they using that power to get what they want from their partner?
What most people don't understand, is that power structures always exist within relationships, regardless. This can be caused by things such as intellegence or finances (or in abuse cases, physical or manipulative power), in which an individual can hold these powers over someone who might be in a position of dependence. While such advantages and power structures can be used for abuse, many relationships do not use such power for manipulation or abuse. We as a society have "assumed" that these relationships can and will lead to abuse.
Lets take a look at intellegnce for example. You can have a 30 year old female with an IQ of 160 and a 30 year old male with an IQ of 80 and some people will wonder "why?". There is an idea that someone needs to "marry within their class." And often times this can be associated with things such as wealth and intelligence. Now. Instead, lets replace the male with a male dog instead. A creature of lesser intellegence. Now its drawn a line, a line you aren't allowed to cross. While having sex with an animal is illegal in many counties and states, having sex with a mentally challenged individual is not, despite being a very similar intellegence power dynamic.
Now, if you replace one of the individuals with a child. The power dynamic almost always favors the adult in physical, intellectual, and financial power. This is why people become extremely offended when they hear about adults having romantic or sexual relations with minors. The power dynamic is typically stronger with the adult holding the power.
So in order to combat these stigmas, we have to conquer the ideas perceived by power structures. Culture dictates that we automatically assume that power structures will lead to abuse. But we know power structures will automatically form regardless, and thus we shouldn't put emphasis on the power dynamic being the defining factor of what determines if a relationship is valid or not. Instead, we should only discriminate against relationships that abuse said power dynamics for personal gain.
It gets even wilder when we consider siblings incest, where the playing field and power dynamics are often even. Yet, culture finds such relationships uncomfortable. Just something to consider.
Needless to say. If you "feel uncomfortable" about a relationship and you are only seeing it at face value, you have been programed by the modern western culture. Relationships between adults and children, humans and animals, or the intelligent and neurodivergant, are not intrinsically abusive. They only appear so because of the power dynamic. They do not automatically become abusive because of it. These relationships can be valid as long as the individuals are consenting and powers aren't being abused.
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor E. Frankl
@flowerpetal Hi! I love reading about your process, and I really appreciate conversations on this topic.
I don't feel marginalized, but I don't think it's ok to marginalized other people. As I said, I've never offended, but I've met a ton of people who have, and obviously most of those people were straight cis teleios because offending has nothing to do with paraphilias or kinks, or sexual orientations, i.e. Pedophilia in the first place.
In general I don't give a fuck about marginalizing straight cis teleios regardless of whether or not they offended, but after I've formed a personal connection with them I care about them and it makes me sad that they still hate themselves for a mistake they made a long time ago, and it makes me angry when others contribute to that self hate by using marginalizing language.
It should go without saying that there are also plenty of paras and Pedos who have also offended, and I do care about their marginalization.
I don't think you're a bad person for trying to help paras and Pedos, and I don't think it's wrong to try to help. I personally don't find it helpful to say that my sense of dignity and pride depends on whether or not I offend or whether or not I am committed to never offended. Everyone deserves to be proud of the way nature made them (which includes being imperfect and making mistakes sometimes) regardless of whether or not they have offended or will offend.
There are also a lot of Paras and Pedos who get off on being "the good ones" and proving that they are good by being "better" than those who have offended. There's also a lot of Paras and Pedos who get off on proving that they are good by feeling bad for having offended. I think that both of those behaviors are really sick and harmful to the rest of us Paras and Pedos. And I think it's realistic to include those people when discussing how popular a certain post might have been.
I appreciate you brining up the confusing wording of offending or non offending. There's no such thing as "offending". What happens is that a child has their boundaries crossed sexually. This can be done to them by another child, a teen, or an adult. This would almost never happen in the first place if children didn't have their boundaries crossed by being forced to grow up in nuclear families. Even when it does happen, you wouldn't marginalize a child who crossed another child's boundaries sexually which shows that you don't need to marginalize the person who crossed a boundary in order to protect or help heal the person who had their boundaries crossed.
I'm not accusing you of intending to marginalize anyone, but I think the word "offending" is meant to be confusing so it can be used to marginalize people. I think it was probably invented by some MAPs in the hopes that they could become less marginalized if they marginalized other MAPs.
I use the #nomap to help my posts get visibility and to hopefully postpone censorship for as long as possible, but I feel really yucky about it.
Anyhooch, I'm grateful that you care about Paras, MAPs, and Pedos, and I appreciate the conversation and knowing a little more about you.
My MAP youtube channel is at 19943 views!!!!
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MAP to Bigots: Don't I deserve to be made fun of?
You guys! I EXPOSE some of the disgusting online M.A.P. (PEDO!) discourse in my latest short!
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Check it out!
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ok I had to re-upload after my Gen Z friend told me to make an important edit to the video.
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A disappointed child makes me lose the will to live.
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So I just heard back from my father after I came out to him as MAP in a letter. He is enthusiastically supportive and accepting of my MAPness "To hell with everyone else" he stated.
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"MytheBe is a Queer/Gay/Indigenous/MAP self taught portrait artist and intersectional feminist comic book creator. Focused on being a positive visible role model for young MAPs #NOMAP"
Not to be ageist, but adults are gross. Ew!
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I just found out that YouTube took down Elliot's page for A MAPs Journey Podcast.
It makes me really sad for Elliot, and it pisses me off that YouTube automatically removes any helpful and educational content that is pro-MAP. It's really upsetting to know there isn't anything I can do to stop YouTube from censoring me and taking down my MAP videos.
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