https://www.tumblr.com/blackholebaybee/818257424919281664/if-maps-had-more-empathy-for-children-than-people
sorry, but you know why MAPS are charged with statutory (rape)? because even if both parties consent, minors can’t consent to sexual activities like that due to the mental/emotional maturity gap. so all map cases are rape; why are you treating them like two completely different things?
even with victims who were groomed and convinced they wanted to engage in sexual acts with the groomer, they still end up with trauma as they got older and more aware. so what exactly was your point here
Law ≠ morality. Nor do unequal power dynamics equal a lack of consent, otherwise all relationships, and especially straight relationships, would be rape, as men hold categorical social, state, and financial power over women. Maturity and mental development have nothing to do with a young person's needs for love and affection, which are universal.
Your second point misses two key contradictions. 1. Young people who have had relations with adults later report neutral or positive feelings about the relations if they were not violent or coercive, i.e., if their consent and autonomy were respected. 2. You are simply ignoring outright iatrogenic harm that is caused by non-victims being made to believe they are victims post-hoc because of family and peers shaming them and mandated therapy gaslighting them into believing they were harmed when they objectively weren't.
And again, most sex abusers of young people are not maps and most maps never offend. These reasons are why the two are obviously different. Your position rests on nothing but deference to the law. Slavery was legal, but it was not moral. Homosexuality was illegal, but it was moral.
Oh, and young people also have power over maps. If a map does engage in relations with a young person, romantic or sexual or even just platonic and intimate, the young person has but to breathe a word to any adult or cop, and that map is all but guaranteed to either be killed or locked up, even if the young person was just lying and being malicious. That's immense power, whether you like it or not.
Finally, having said that most maps don't offend to begin with, I also do not recommend that maps engage in relations with young people because it is very risky and their time would be better spent organizing to liberate young people and maps. You can pretend all you like that maps aren't distinct from sex abusers, but I know more about this than you and I care more about this than you. I have been to ATSA conferences, I study the literature, and I organize. You don't.
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