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so, a while ago there was a topic about MAP celebrities, and someone said something about "Léon the professional". i checked it out, and although its not exactly a kissy-missy love story, its still quite sweet. no pedophobia, the girl is the initiator. criminal pedo romance i guess, but without smooching and stuff. though i advice you to not watch the ending...

Does it have to be portrayed where the pedophiles a good guy and there’s a love story between him and the minor. Or can it be how maps are viewed in general by the antis.
And what do you mean by mappy map coded.

I recall "The hunt (2012)", but even though I guess it's good, it's also very hard to watch. I watched it many years ago and it made me paranoid. I can't recall if the character was a MAP or not.

I found a very interesting paper. It's from the University of Texas, but it's about Spanish cinema. The Queer Child in the Nuevo Cine Español, by Jorge Perez, published in 2017:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... entina.pdf

It talks about five Spanish films. Three of them, based on what the paper says about them, seem very interesting (El nido, El amor del capitan Brando and Cria cuervos). From what it says about them, I think people on this forum might like them. But the point is that I found the paper itself very, very interesting. It quotes Hocquenghem, Angelides, and Levine. And it says things like:

El nido thus challenges the assumptions of the child abuse movement by presenting a child-adult relation that is not based on abuse. Armiñán does not shy away from addressing the dynamic of power at play in this intergenerational couple. But he reverses the predictable scenario, since it is the child who claims a position of power and the adult the one who complies with her demands.

These two films touch upon a taboo subject—intergenerational bonds—with an openness and naturalness that is unthinkable in contemporary films which are subjected to much stricter laws and social codes regarding the representation of children’s sexual desires.

Yeah, those are the kinds of papers I like to read.