The Dignity of Transgression: A Pro-C MAP Manifesto
We do not beg for forgiveness.
We do not apologize for what we are.
We speak because no one else will.
I. Attraction Is Not a Crime
The foundation of our existence is simple:
We are attracted to minors. This is not a confession. It is not a diagnosis. It is not a plea for help. It is a fact.
We did not choose it. We did not invent it. And we will not spend our lives pretending to be ashamed of something we did not create.
Being a MAP is not inherently harmful. What causes harm is the world’s response: the surveillance, the erasure, the dehumanization. We reject a moral order that punishes thought and pathologizes feeling. The state may criminalize our actions, but it has no right to criminalize our being.
II. Radical Ethical Individualism
Because we are not allowed to simply exist, we are forced to ask the questions most people avoid:
What is harm?
What is care?
What is ethical love in a world that denies our right to love at all?
Pro-c MAPs do not follow laws blindly, nor do we act recklessly. We take ethics seriously—more seriously than the society that condemns us. We reject both obedience and nihilism.
Instead, we live with discernment. We weigh impact. We assess risk. We protect those we care about not out of fear of punishment, but out of love—real, complicated, defiant love.
III. Strategic Dissent, Not Assimilation
We do not seek assimilation. We will not neuter our truth to appease public panic. We are not here to be "the good ones" or tokens of self-restraint.
What we seek is not safety—but clarity. What we demand is not pity—but justice.
We speak to expose the contradictions:
- Why is "grooming" a label for kindness?
- Why is youth autonomy respected in abortion or gender identity, but erased in matters of intimacy?
- Why are MAPs punished more harshly for a thought than others are for a crime?
IV. Mutual Agency Over Infantilization
We believe that minors are not property.
They are not passive objects of protection.
They are thinking, feeling beings with agency that society refuses to see.
We do not erase the complexity of intergenerational relationships. We confront it.
We do not impose consent as a magical legal switch flipped at a birthday. We ask: What does real mutuality look like? What does it mean to share a connection across difference, with care, with freedom, without coercion?
We listen to youth—not to use them, but to recognize them. To make them visible in a system that silences them "for their own good."
V. From Shame to Clarity: The Power of Being Hated
Yes, we are hated. But that hatred reveals more about them than it does about us.
A society that claims to love children yet shreds nuance in the name of "protection" is lying to itself. It needs monsters. It wants monsters. And it made us one.
We take that monster-mask and turn it inside out. We show the face beneath it. Not a predator. Not a victim. But a human being—thinking, loving, and unwilling to disappear.
Our stigma gives us sight.
Our alienation gives us integrity.
Our refusal to break gives us strength.
We Do Not Wait
We are not asking for a future. We are living now.
We are building solidarity now.
We are writing, thinking, dreaming—now.
And when the world finally realizes what it did to us—what it did in the name of purity, what it erased in the name of protection—
we will still be here.
Unbroken.
Ethical.
Alive.
We are MAPs.
We are pro-c.
We are not ashamed.