#knoweledge

Again, please read the whole thing till the end.

Okay, first of all let's go through the definitions of a few words, right, so here we go:

MAPs: These literally relate to 'Minor Attracted Persons' which means people (including minors) attracted to people younger than them (even by only a few years) romantically and/or sexually. (Yes, we need a change of term)

Pedophiles: These are adults who are attracted to prepubescent children (usually younger than 11 years of age) romantically and/or sexually.

Hebephiles: These are adults who are attracted to pubescent children (usually around the ages of 11 to 14 years of age) romantically and/or sexually.

Pedohebephiles: These are adults who are attracted to pubescent and prepubescent children (usually younger than 14 years of age) romantically and/or sexually.

Child Molester:  a person who sexually assaults or abuses a child.

Understanding the difference between the first four terms and the last term is incredibly important.

(I will now use MAPs to cover all the first four terms)

Okay, so we can all agree that child abusers are fucking evil and they should be severely punished. Okay, now MAPs are people who cannot help but be attracted to children. Most of the population of people who are MAPs know for a fact that it is incredibly wrong to sexualize children and that children cannot, for a fact, ever consent. Most MAPs feel incredibly guilty about their attractions and wish to control it by whatever means necessary. You can read here of one such case.

So, obviously we need a solution to this problem, right? Unfortunately, this problem cannot be permanently cured. But most MAPs are also attracted to people close to their age so they can divert their attention to them.

“Krueger argues there is the "hebephilic" type of pedophile, who is sexually attracted to pubescent children, and the "pedohebephilic" type, who is sexually attracted to both prepubescent and pubescent children. People with these attractions can sometimes be nudged into focusing on adults, said Krueger, who is the medical director of the Sexual Behavior Clinic at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York.

However, pedophiles who fall under the "classic type," and are attracted only to prepubescent children, usually under age 11, often don't change their focus, Krueger said.”

Source

Okay, now you would want sources as to how come it is not curable, right here you go:

“The prognosis for pedophilia is difficult to determine. For pedophiles, these longstanding sexual fantasies about children can be very difficult to change.”

Source (You can actually read the whole article, it tells a lot though it is a little negative on this subject, I agree)

This is also a site where you can read about their difficulties to lead a normal life.

(I am in no way saying MAPs should be a part of LGBT community, but I wish to address that later.)

See, the issue is that people are attracted to children. If we punish them for it, they will go underground, it will become harder to catch them, and the people who have this condition will have more chances of becoming influenced by the wrong people. But if we are open about the fact that, although molesting a child is extremely horrifying wrong, people who cannot help themselves to thinking like that, are welcome to seek help to curb this train of thought, we will achieve a lot more.

Now, you may want to send MAPs to therapy, but there is a big issue in that.

In many countries, MAPs cannot seek help from proffesionals because therapist are required, by law, to report all the people who show signs of child abuse, either victims, molesters, or having fantasies. This makes it very difficult for people seeking help to trust their therapists and receive proper help.

Right, sources:

“...mandatory reporting laws require some medical health professionals to report suspected child abuse, which might scare pedophiles who haven't sought treatment away from admitting their urges. But just because health care doesn't have a place to treat them doesn't mean people who need treatment are not out there. 

Studies suggest that up to 9 percent of men have fantasized about having sex with a prepubescent child, and 3 percent of all men have gone on to sexually offend. (Not all of them would meet the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. The latter figure includes situational offenders, men who abuse children if the opportunity arises but who otherwise have no pre-existing attraction to kids.) Michael Seto, director of the University of Ottawa's Forensic Research Unit and associate editor of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, believes that the prevalence of male pedophiles sits closer to 1 percent of the population, which would equate to at least 1.2 million in the U.S. alone. (Female pedophiles exist, but in smaller numbers.) “

Source

“But what about people who are attracted to kids yet have never laid a finger on one? In the United States, there's no way for a would-be pedophile to seek help before he or she acts on their urges. And in August of last year, California made it even harder for those with sexual disorders to get assistance: Assembly Bill 1775 amended the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act so that therapists are now required to report any patient who has looked at kiddie porn.”

Source

You can also read this article, right here

Now, you may argue that people who are caught molesting children, they should be punished. I agree, they should be, and that too severely.

Should they be killed? Yes, it is rape, and the punishment for rape is death, so yes.

Okay, so now I hope you see MAPs in a better light.

Remember, MAPs are not the evil people, child molesters are.

Also, at this point I would like to add that there is a group of MAPs that are pro-contact (People who think that children can consent). These people are also wrong and we should punish them for thinking that way. We should NOT be fine with this kind of thinking.

Also, MAPs are obviously not allowed in LGBT+ community as in no way, sexualzing or fantasizing about children is valid and moral.