MAP Forum

Not Forever wrote: Tue Jan 27, 2026 6:38 am I would preferably talk to them about homosexuality, but without using terms like “LGBTQ+” or “Queer”, which unfortunately are political terms that not even everyone they’re supposed to represent feels represented by. (There are right-wing homosexuals, there are bisexuals who prefer the term Queer and don’t like the acronym due to internal discrimination and things like that.) I would present everything using as few ideological labels as possible.

In the same way I would talk about pedophilia or other chronophilias, but without using the term MAPs. Creating compartments in rhetoric, in my opinion, has its use: using language differently depending on the situation, without the need to plant your flag everywhere. MAPs (LGBTQ+, Queer and etc.) is a more activist term, whereas in schools, in my opinion, a more scientific approach is needed.

Things have improved a lot, I have young friends who talk about gay and lesbian issues as normal. They have a lesbian teacher, they have clubs for gay and lesbian students, they have gay or lesbian friends, it's all normal. I would like to see maps and other to be included in this as normal because I still feel that there's indoctrination to hate some groups still. I could talk to a young person about pedophiles and they'd still just describe bogey men just like gay people used to be described. There's still a sickness in society that isn't cured fully yet.

Coming from a kid who as young as 5 had fantasies about dinosaurs, bondage, con noncon, giant arthropods, and strange creatures I do advocate safe and consensual exploration of kinks as well as teaching understanding of limitations and power dynamics. Being made to go vanilla from societies expectations turned me into a very introverted and anxiety ridden girl who was too afraid to speak up for herself about anything, and it ruined my adult life.

I was very painfully aware that I would never be a kid forever and even had fantasies of being AN ADULT and getting gang banged by a bunch of randy kids starting at around 9. So are kids capable of kinks? Yes, at least in thought. Are all? of course not, but with the internet and kinks becoming more and more accessible to youth I feel it's something we as adults need to address to minors and how to go about practicing them safely or risk losing the internet to strict censorship.