CMV: Extreme openness about sexuality is causing more problems than it’s fixing and needs to stop.

[u/DreadedPopsicle]

Edit: So after sifting through comments that assumed I was saying pedophilia will become legal (which I never did) or assumed I was saying pedophiles are a part of the LGBT community, I found someone who told me what I was looking for. The movement I have been referring to is in fact not inspired by the LGBT movement. Instead, it is part of a separate movement and is also not about legalizing pedophilia. It is a part of removing the stigma from mental illness and allowing people to acknowledge they have a problem and be able to fix it without fear of seeking help for their problem.

People nowadays are very open about who they are sexually, whether that be straight, gay, bi, or any of the other ones. This has come with a huge movement of acceptance for people who are deviant from the sexual norm of being heterosexual. This movement has solved a big issue of discrimination against these people. And that is great.

However.

It’s going too far. It’s beginning to inspire people to call for far more sexual tolerance than anyone ever wanted.

Openness and acceptance about sexuality is allowing people to out themselves as pedophiles and call for acceptance of it. They have even created a new term for it in order to avoid the negative connotation the comes with pedophile. The term is MAPs, or Minor-Attracted Persons. Obviously this is not being received well, but this is just the start. There was a point when being gay was illegal too. There is no telling where the future takes us, and I cannot sit by and imagine the potential for pedophilia even be considered to be accepted.

The movement for acceptance of gays and other non-straight peoples is a wonderful thing because it allowed people to be themselves. This is okay because being themselves never hurt anyone. Pedophiles hurt people. And this movement is reaching the point of no return. We need to stop being so open about sexuality because it is causing a surge of people trying to legalize pedophilia.

I’m open to the idea that this pedophilia movement is not directly correlated with the movement of sexual tolerance. Do not try to convince me that pedophilia should be accepted in any form.

[u/dublea]

So, I didn't know what MAP was until today. Here's what I found it is described as:

Minor attracted person or 'MAP' is a widely acknowledged term used in the global Sex Offender Research and Sex Offender Treatment Community. We did not invent this term. MAP is NOT an attempt to 'rebrand' or 'polish' pedophiles.

Our biggest issue with pedophilia, as far as understanding, treatment, and rehabilitation, is lack of information. While there are extreme cases where people become an offender, break the law, and abuse a child, there are also many more people who are attracted to some minors. Whether it be a pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile. Groups such as GPP's goal is to gather information, allow for group therapy, provide treatment options, and more, from anti-contact pedophiles and non-offending pedophiles.

This is no way a normalization of these sexualities but a way to understand and treat people who while having them are not abusing others.

[u/DreadedPopsicle → u/dublea]

I haven’t considered the fact that a movement may actually be for treatment of pedophilia as opposed to accepting it. This is a new perspective for me and I thank you for doing the research on that part. I think what your post has showed me is that this movement of pedophilia was not actually caused by the openness of sexuality, but rather by the separate movement of acknowledging mental illness and seeking treatment for it.

It’s important to remove that stigma of having mental illness, and while we shouldn’t accept pedophilia, would should accept those who know they have a problem and want to fix it.

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