MAP Forum

Contact ideology is more of a spectrum than a binary. Even if anti-contact MAPS do not openly advocate for lowering or abolishing the age of consent, they often have an opinion on what constitutes a "child" and what constitutes "contact" from an ethical perspective. I consider my...

The disparity in punishment between the United States and other countries for sex crimes is truly astounding.

We've reached a point where any crime with a possible sexual component involving minors is considered pedophilia. I don't even hear the terms child molester or child rapist being used much anymore. They certainly don't apply to image offenders or online predators. In society's eyes, they're all just...

I think the issue is that a lot people have been so whipped up into a hysteria, they've lost their grip on reality. As I've said to another MAP before, people are more comfortable imagining a nuclear holocaust than an adult getting a handjob from an 8 year old. Any sane person would have to admit a...

I don’t see gendered ages of consent making a comeback. I think gender equality is too engrained in modern culture.

Idk some of those teen girls be looking pretty as hell. Wouldn't exactly say that avoiding a relationship with them is "easy." I also wouldn’t claim that not acting on my urges is “easy”. It’s a constant struggle for me that involves imperfect outlets. Unfortunately, keeping my identity s...

I love how she’s spiting all the antis by living her best life.

Idk some of those teen girls be looking pretty as hell. Wouldn't exactly say that avoiding a relationship with them is "easy." I also wouldn’t claim that not acting on my urges is “easy”. It’s a constant struggle for me that involves imperfect outlets. Unfortunately, keeping my identity s...

I don’t like the term because a strictly platonic friendship between an adult and child can be misconstrued as grooming. If it needs to be used, it should be applied after the fact to behaviors that culminated in unwanted sexual contact.

In the US, social conservatives while generally anti-MAP are fighting feminists in some states who want to ban child marriage. Granted they really only want to preserve heterosexual child marriage.