Month: October 2024

Pedophile Vs MAPS Is More Than A Matter Of Words

By Bob Small

Thanks to Scott from Vermont — who just transitioned to Pennsylvania — for the information about the change in semantics where pedophiles are now called “minor attracted persons” or MAPS.

In the–now-removed– promotion material we have the statement “Most of all, it’s a time for us to feel fully accepted as we are and for us to feel pride in who we are. ‘ Maybe there’s a new phrase we’ll be hearing ‘MAPP pride.”

Of course, this redefinition has an academic source and that would be Allyn Walker a former criminology and sociology professor at Old Dominion University.

Walker wrote A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity. He mentions his organization B4U-ACT and explains it uses the term MAPs, rather than the term ‘pedophile,’ to “decrease stigma against this group.”  He adds. “the fact of children’s inability to consent to sex is irrelevant to the application of the term ‘sexual orientation”

After leaving Old Dominion, Allyn was hired by John Hopkins University. Allyn is a member of the transgender community.

And Dr. Frederick Berlin, founder of the sexual disorders clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says those sexually attracted to children should learn not to feel ashamed of their condition.

Obviously, not everyone thinks this change in semantics is a good thing. Though there’s one perspective here,

“I believe, as is so often done, this is the first step toward normalizing abnormal behavior,” says Joyce Krawiec

Returning to B4U-Act , some of their aims are laudable. Promoting services for self-identified pedophiles to seek assistance before they act on their urges is a good thing, for instance.

It’s the concept of normalization that gives us pause.

How one feels like this may depend on how you regard a movie called The Mark (1961) about a man seeking to recover from this condition.

Pedophile Vs MAPS Is More Than A Matter Of Words