Should the acronym AAM be updated?

[MAPallmylife66]

I have to disagree. The term "young person" is extremely condescending. I would never call a legal minor that.

They should just legally be referred to as jailbait.

I think the idea here is to get to a point where they're not jail bait!

[MAPallmylife66]

I have to disagree. The term "young person" is extremely condescending. I would never call a legal minor that.

But the word "minor" isn't condescending? I personally feel like the word minor is demeaning. It implies less than something else, or in this case, someone else.

[Grunko]

Maybe just like we have gay, lesbian, we need to create new words to describe people who are attracted to people from different ages to them.
For example,
Youthian: refers to people attracted to those who are younger then them
Othian: refers to people attracted to those older than them
Biyolian: refers to those attracted to people of all ages- same age, older or younger

These are just examples of ideas.

[John_Doe]

Maybe just like we have gay, lesbian, we need to create new words to describe people who are attracted to people from different ages to them.
For example,
Youthian: refers to people attracted to those who are younger then them
Othian: refers to people attracted to those older than them
Biyolian: refers to those attracted to people of all ages- same age, older or younger

These are just examples of ideas.

It seems to me that you're trying to put people into these neat and rigid separate age categories in a way that I find unrealistic, I don't know how to put this. Even drawing a perfect line between true pedophiles and hebephiles/teleiophiles is difficult because at what exact moment does a child become more or less sexually attractive to any given person? Unless you're equally attracted to infants, the elderly and everyone in-between it will be a gradual process (not to mention that people start to develop at different ages) and attraction is relative. I've never really agreed with the terms 'MAP' and 'AAM' because I'm convinced that all teleiophiles are attracted to people under 18 and in my teens I didn't know of a single person in my age group who wasn't attracted to adults in their 20s/30s, that would be the age group that most media sex symbols belong to. 'YAP' seems somewhat vague to me because 'youth' is relative, it applies to people who are attracted to 30-year-olds and even a 50-year-old is relatively young in contrast with someone in their 70s.

It's strange to me that someone could start out as some version of a biyolian (maybe not attracted to all ages but attracted to people in their own age group and to those who are somewhat older) and then end up a youthian (which more or less describes my situation). To be fair, 'heterosexual' doesn't describe what someone is attracted to per se either although the idea might be that the dynamic between a man and a woman is different than that between two women.

[MAPallmylife66]

Maybe just like we have gay, lesbian, we need to create new words to describe people who are attracted to people from different ages to them.
For example,
Youthian: refers to people attracted to those who are younger then them
Othian: refers to people attracted to those older than them
Biyolian: refers to those attracted to people of all ages- same age, older or younger

These are just examples of ideas.

It seems to me that you're trying to put people into these neat and rigid separate age categories in a way that I find unrealistic, I don't know how to put this. Even drawing a perfect line between true pedophiles and hebephiles/teleiophiles is difficult because at what exact moment does a child become more or less sexually attractive to any given person? Unless you're equally attracted to infants, the elderly and everyone in-between it will be a gradual process (not to mention that people start to develop at different ages) and attraction is relative. I've never really agreed with the terms 'MAP' and 'AAM' because I'm convinced that all teleiophiles are attracted to people under 18 and in my teens I didn't know of a single person in my age group who wasn't attracted to adults in their 20s/30s, that would be the age group that most media sex symbols belong to. 'YAP' seems somewhat vague to me because 'youth' is relative, it applies to people who are attracted to 30-year-olds and even a 50-year-old is relatively young in contrast with someone in their 70s.

It's strange to me that someone could start out as some version of a biyolian (maybe not attracted to all ages but attracted to people in their own age group and to those who are somewhat older) and then end up a youthian (which more or less describes my situation). To be fair, 'heterosexual' doesn't describe what someone is attracted to per se either although the idea might be that the dynamic between a man and a woman is different than that between two women.

My whole point behind this thread was to get people thinking about minors, as people, and not just a lable. I've always thought the word "minor", as being diminutive, and less than human. I don't know if Adult Attracted Young Person (AAYP), is the right fit, but if you think about it "Adult Attracted", with "Young Person", implies that said young person, is not yet an adult, because if they were, there would be no reason for the distinction, and that said young person is attracted to adults. I just thought it more appropriate, and inclusive for these people, who are trying desperately to be seen and heard, than "minor", whether it's a legal lable, or not. I would really like to get input from the people in this category, who are on here.

[DANAT4T]

I have to disagree. The term "young person" is extremely condescending. I would never call a legal minor that.

But the word "minor" isn't condescending? I personally feel like the word minor is demeaning. It implies less than something else, or in this case, someone else.

Okay. The term "minor" is defined by law. The term "young person" is subjective. Nope.