RE: What in the bloody hell are MAPs?
Uhhhhhh... Do I want to know this? I missed this. I'm going to read it. In a bit.
Before I do that my views on this are as follows: there's a difference between being a pedophile and a pedosexual (child abuser), where the first group has a preference to having sex with kids (often something you're born with unfortunately), and the second also actually does the deed (there's no excuse).
I really want the second group to be punished hard and the first group to get therapy so they never become the second group. There's no way we can 'heal' a pedophile but we can teach people how to constrain themselves. (Most of them are disgusted with themselves too.)
Since I never think in black and white I hope we can all at least try to understand this difference - and even feel compassion for the pedophile that feels disgusted with him/herself for feel attracted to something they know they can't ever get - and even don't WANT to get because it's so wrong.
Where it's the same as being queer: it's a sexual preference which can't be helped and you're born with and can't unlearn. Where it's also-fucking-lutely not the same: it will never be acceptable to have sex with a kid, can't even call it sex as there is no legal consent so basically it's always rape. So no pedo pride in the future.
In the meanwhile it's legal in many US states and other countries to get married as an underaged kid - no booze before 21 years old, acting like smoking cannabis is the worst crime in the world, but marry our kids into pedosexual marriages? Yeah, why not.
we still have a long way to go... and i accept not having these conversations at all is a net negative, but like i said, the line in the sand needs to be very clear.
Soyrosa? I mean no disrespect. However, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "an underage kid." It is true that it is legal for people to marry as young as their early-to-mid teens in certain state jurisdictions of the United States of America. My great aunt got married at 15 years old to a 24-year-old man so many years ago. Now, would I call their marriage "pedosexual"? Not at all. They were married for a long, long time and happily so. Also, my great uncle would not have qualified even to be a pedophile per its definition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition ("DSM-5"), so he never could have been a pedosexual, not even by the far reaches of the imagination. When a man in his eighties marries an 8-year-old girl in the Middle East, then that is a pedosexual marriage. However, to the best of my knowledge, there is no state jurisdiction in the United States of America where it is legal for an 8-year-old girl to get married as there should never be one. In other words, there is a very big difference between a Loretta-Lynn-style marriage and a pedosexual marriage.