para education

This blog was created to help me (@emmettspace) collect and save cited research surrounding paraphilias and paraphilic disorders. Most of this information is used to create videos on my Youtube channel to bring paraphile advocacy to more mainstream platforms.

Can we submit sources for this research?

Yes! Submissions are always welcome and can be sent through asks, or you can tag this blog in the post you want me to see. Please make sure that the source is linked and that the information in the source is cited, so I can check out each citation.

You may also suggest video topics and recommend other creators centered around paraphile advocacy and education.

Can we ask questions regarding research?

Absolutely. You can ask about anything you read on this blog or elsewhere regarding this subject. I will do my best to answer. Please note that I answer all asks publicly unless you request for it to be answered privately.

What are your contact stances?

My contact stances align with NO-ACT. Here is an excerpt taken from the linked page:

NO-ACT stands for "Non-Offending, Anti-Contact, Taboo" and is a movement for paraphiles who are against sexual contact with minors, theriform animals, and non-consenting people, but pro-kink and other means of safe sexual expression.

This means I am strictly anti-contact when it comes to any sentient being (or previously sentient) that cannot consent. I am always anti-abuse. If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to ask.

I am also pro-paraphiles (which includes all paraphilias and paraphilic disorders), pro-recovery for those with paraphilic disorders who need or want help (recovery is not a requirement for paraphiles to exist), am fine with minors interacting, and do not believe any paraphilia is 'harmful'.

Do you vet every source you cite?

I try to do my due diligence, but I am only one person and can easily miss things. As a general disclaimer, I do not agree with or endorse everything that someone or something says or does, even if I cite them as a source.

Are you a paraphile?

I am not when it comes to reality; all of my attractions are purely fictional. I think that's important to state because as an ally, I do not face the same type of stigma that most paraphiles do, and I do not share or fully understand their experiences. I can only do my best to educate and correct myself if I get something wrong.

How do you tag things on this blog?

📌 is for information that I posted.

📄 is for information that I reblogged.

📚 is for information submitted to me.

💬 is for asks unrelated to research.

☕ is for posts unrelated to research.

Along with my emoji tags, I will usually use words and phrases to help me find things easier, like tagging something as a specific paraphilia or paraphilic disorder if I'm collecting information for it.

I don't agree with something you posted.

That's fine. I'm open to discussion as long as we can keep it civil and not make it personal. If someone cannot treat me with respect because they think less of me for having a different perspective, their message will be deleted and they will be blocked.

Can I reblog this post?

#1) "Minors DNI"

Minors are welcome to interact with this blog, as this is solely for educational purposes and any posts with explicit content will have a mature community label, in order to abide by the ToS. We get that this blogger tags all posts with 'Minors DNI' for their own purposes, we just wanted our stance to be clear, since a lot of this education directly helps minors and involves minors. Adults are not the only age group with paraphilias.

#2) "Anti harmful para"

There is no such thing as a "harmful" paraphilia. Actions can be harmful, not attractions. So, again, we want to make it clear that we are not 'anti harmful paraphilia', we are anti-contact when it comes to harmful actions, and anti-abuse overall.

#3) "Neutral para"

We are not 'neutral' on paraphilias because that implies there is something to be opposed. We are 100% supportive of all paraphilias and paraphilia disorders, as it states on the pinned post of my main blog. We will be linking this post to our pinned on this blog, just to make this very clear. While the intentions behind "neutral" stances are good, it is important that we examine what we are being neutral about and why. If we are hesitating to say we are in full support of paraphiles due to unchecked paramisia (i.e. the account who reblogged this post has "Anti Big 3" in their pinned), that's a problem.

#4) "Pro recovery"

We support recovery for anyone suffering from a paraphilic disorder that wants or needs help with their disorder. It's very tricky to use 'pro recovery' as a blanket statement because, as we've been finding in our research, there is a misconception that all paraphilias are disorders and must be 'cured'. This 'requirement' is often attached to a paraphile's right to exist in society, as in, they don't get to exist as equals if they do not 'recover' from their paraphilia, despite having done no harm.

To be clear, we are not putting words in this blogger's mouth or claiming that we understand their stances. These tags just reminded us to make our own stances clear and comment on different stances about and within the paraphile community.

What are your thoughts on documenting and/or preserving media that we might call "pro-abuse"? That is to say: documents or media that actively promote harmful, non-consensual sexual activities (ie. children, animals, the dead, or just anyone who doesn't want it)

Yes, I realize that the question might seem obvious at first, but I think that it's actually a little more complicated than people might realize.

As part of my own project, I've been trying to locate and preserve any and all media that is "highly suppressed" in the sense that it has been made intentionally hard to find due to it's subject matter being very controversial / offensive. And unsurprisingly that includes a lot of really repulsive stuff like these sorts of guides written describing how to abuse children or animals, publications dedicated to dog fighting, holocaust denial shit, etc.

Now, while I'm personally still kind of undecided on how I could ever share any of this stuff in a safe, contextualized manner, I do personally think it's important to preserve in some form. I think it's very hard to push back against harmful ideologies when you don't actually have access to the same materials that their proponents have. Because then there's no way to actively examine what their thought patterns are, or why they were drawn to these beliefs, and there's no way to pick apart their specific arguments or even just publicly mock how stupid they are.

But I mean, I know it's a difficult issue, and I was wondering, what your thoughts on it were. Sorry this Ask got kind of longer than I thought it would be lol

Hello, and thank you! No need to apologize for the long ask. This is a discussion worth having and it's one of the main reasons we've been following along with your project.

I am against any form of censorship and agree that it hinders our efforts to prevent abuse and protect abuse victims.

Plus, I don't fully agree with the 'wrong person finding it' argument. If someone is thinking about causing harm and plans to do so, they most likely will, regardless of if they consume pro-abuse media or not. Even if it makes it 'easier' to commit a crime, we would have to extend that grounds for censoring to all other forms of media that depict abuse, violence, and so on.

That being said, I've spent some time retyping my response because I, too, am very conflicted on whether these things should be preserved for a specific audience (i.e. students, interns, experts; something more limited to a 'database' type of system and not available to the general public) or if, in the spirit of anti-censorship, they should be readily accessible to anyone.

But ultimately, it all comes down to the same question: freedom or safety? We want to protect others, but those protections often infringe on personal freedoms and create a judgmental, paranoid society, ready to swoop in as soon as they perceive something as dangerous.

So, for that reason, I would have to side with allowing pro-abuse media to be preserved for everyone to access. Because our efforts to prevent harm are too little too late if we need to rely on censorship to do so.

https://chronic-ally.dreamwidth.org/1249.html?view=16353&posted=1#cmt16353

https://chronic-ally.dreamwidth.org/1387.html?view=17259&posted=1#cmt17259

Thank you, anon! I've done a quick skim to start, and I will definitely be going through and sharing my notes on these in the future. Sad to see that many linked pages are no longer there (I have no doubt they were flagged/reported), but I will work with what I can still access.

I've heard about ephebophilia, but I've never heard of the others. I did find this list of paraphilias on a Paraphile Wiki to look into, though it seems like many pages are missing and it is a long list to start with.

I will most likely start with the more well known paraphilias and then go into these subgenres more in-depth in a separate video, but I'll still mention them in the introduction. Are there any subgenres you (or anyone) would suggest looking into first and foremost?

It seems like I've had a surge of blogs following lately that are bloggers who are not human! I would say alterhuman, but I see in some pinned posts that not everyone aligns with that term.

This has motivated me to ask a few questions, since I've been told that there are many non-humans(?) in the paraphile community, and I want to be as inclusive as possible with my language. These questions are open for anyone to answer, and obviously I know that not every answer will be the same. But it's helpful for someone like me who doesn't know much about this community. You can reblog, reply, or submit an ask with your answer, to whichever questions you would like to answer.

Questions

When someone is speaking generally and uses 'people' terms (i.e. saying 'people', 'person', 'human', etc.), how does that make you feel? Is it okay because someone is speaking generally and not calling you a human directly, or is it still not okay?

Are there any terms aside from 'being' and 'beings' that you use to replace human-centered language? (That's the only one I've seen so far.)

Do words like 'someone', 'anyone', and 'everyone' count as human-centered language? Or is it okay because that 'one' could refer to any being, human or not?

Do you accept the use of 'theriform' to distinguish between the 'traditional' definition of animal and the more inclusive definition that includes alterhumans and nonhumans? If someone says not to distinguish the two, do you believe that would make it harder to discuss contact stances (i.e. the difference between being anti-contact with theriform animals and anti-contact with alterhumans/nonhumans [if that's even a stance])?

Is 'otherkin' a separate label from 'alterhuman'? Is it okay to use the two interchangably?

Thank you for your help!

Thank you for expressing interest in this blog. My first goal is going to be going through some sources that a mutual sent me. I will be posting about each one individually, but it may take me a while.

My second goal is going to be gathering research for the next video I want to do, which will be an introduction to paraphilias. I will have a separate introduction for paraphilic disorders, since most people tend to conflate the two.

If you are a paraphile, non-paraphile ally, or someone curious to know more, please send in anything that you would like to be covered in the introduction video. This can be personal knowledge, experience, and questions you would like answered.

Not only does this help me know what to cover, but it gives me a good starting point for my research. All posts that will be used in the video will be tagged as "Introduction to Paraphilias".

Thank you for your help!