So people attracted to little boys and girls - are you strongly attracted cuteness or not? Vote to decide. As a little girl lover I testify I am strongly attracted to cuteness and seeing cute little girls gives me a sense of well being and arousal, even though I agree not to sexual contact them ever. So I will be on the primary highest mark on the public vote.
Science of cuteness
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Now lets move on to the science. The researchers; I cited James Cantor and Jorge Ponseti who are both leaning in the direction that at least some cases of pedophilia have to do when regions of the brain that provoke child nurturing responses overlapping with erotic regions. The lead hypothesis is the brain is sending erotic signals in pedophililic men towards what most males would perceive as nurturing ques. What is usually interpreted by the brain as just nurturing in teliophillic non pedophilic men is sexually arousing in MAPs. Posenti believes we have a mix of nurturing cues and erotic cues, where as telio non-pedo men only have nuturing cues for little kids.
Let's quickly list the summaries of three studies.
Study 1 involved subjects lying in a MRI while scanning brain activity while looking at cute child faces. MAPs had a strong arousal and nurturing reaction
Study 2 involved the same thing but exclusively did baby animal faces only. MAPs had far stronger nurturing responses to baby animals
Study 3 did both baby animal faces and baby human faces, and introduced a mechanic to press a button as soon as possible when the user detected a child/baby animal face. MAPs did best on this way better then normies, and remarkably well if they had high testosterone.
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Study Human Child Faces Baby Animal Faces Key Finding
Ponseti 2014
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No findings: Reversed tuning: pedophiles' sexual brain networks respond to child faces.Ponseti 2018
No _________ Yes findings: Overactive anterior insula (nurturing system) in pedophiles.Zannoni 2024
Yes ________ Yes findings: Attention bias to infant faces is linked to testosterone in pedophiles.The first study realized MAPs have closer attention to child faces and how child nurturing networks in the brain overlap with erotic networks in their brain
https://research.regionh.dk/en/publicat ... references
https://openscience.hamburg.de/de/suche ... 3/#content
The second study suggest MAPs may have stronger nurturing instincts for baby animals as well based on what their brains are doing
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29403367/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180726105 ... attractive
The third study duplicated existing results and realized when male MAPs are given testosterone - or have natural testosterone surges it makes them more intensely attracted to cuteness and they detect child faces/baby animal faces much faster then normal, especially when jacked on testosterone
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39013917/
All signs indicated that MAPs can detect child faces quicker and that their sexual brains activate with the nurturing system simultaneously. To put in laymen's terms it is sexual attraction to cuteness. Sexy and Cute blur as one mental state. Nurturing and caring for a small child and getting a boner for a small child go together. So it is safe to say a sub category of MAPs, perhaps majority of girl lovers are attracted to cuteness. James Cantor leans in the direction that nurturing response networks in the brain are cross wire and are replaced with erotic responses where as Jorge Ponsenti thinks its a mix of both nurturing and eroticism as do I. Over all once again I testify to the reality that I am really attracted to little cute Chinese girls from swimwear shop websites and I feel nurturing and erotic feelings around them.
To learn more about cuteness you can read Wikipedia's article on cuteness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
or watch these video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EJ2TKi0Kcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfsbspNlI14
Anything that makes you feel "awww" "adorable" "kawaii" "sweet" "mesmerized" "protective" "nurturing" "cuddly" is synonymous with cuteness. Let's find out the data, and I must confess I wonder if boy lovers are different then girl lovers. It could be only girl lovers like cuteness and my poll is not filtering for that or for trans kids. But honestly if someone pressed me I'd say there is evidence little boy lovers love cuteness to just like me. One concern I raise is some MAPs might not know the difference between cute and sexy. Let the thread begin!
