MAP Forum

At university in the humanities I usually got 2-3 assigned readings per week for about 12 week on topics which amounted to a detailed understanding of the subject. My last 6 months could be said to be my own personalized version of that. I did a lot of reading and research- crumbs of which can still be seen as topics on this and other forums. This would be a medium term project, but the idea of it sounds kind cool and I'd really like others' input as to the "curriculum". I'm thinking something like:

• What is minor attraction?
• Ancient history of minor attraction
• Modern history of minor attraction
• Stigma and mental health
• Paraphilias and psychology
• Child sex abuse - perpetrators
• Child sex abuse - victims
• Harms of CSA
• Pro-reform arguments (AMSC)
• Pro-reform arguments (PIM)
• Harm reduction arguments
• Civil rights movements
• Youth rights

Is there any obvious major topics I'm missing? Each topic should probably have "Required reading" (2-3 pieces) and "optional reading/ viewing" (2-5 pieces). Suggestions are most welcome. The goal should be education, not indoctrination so anti-c pieces are obviously necessary. Even actual anti pieces would be acceptable if they're high quality and not hateful.

Hopefully this doesn't end up as another half-done project.

1. What is minor attraction?

• Is pedophilia a sexual orientation? (Seto, 2012)
• Minor-Attracted Men's Lived Experiences of Romantic Attraction (Levitan, 2024)
• Pedophilia and DSM-5: The Importance of Clearly Defining the Nature of a Pedophilic Disorder (Berlin, 2014)
• Pedophile, Child Lover, or Minor-Attracted Person? (Jahnke, 2022)
• Is Homosexuality a Paraphilia? The Evidence For and Against (Cantor, 2012)
• Salter?

2. Ancient history of minor attraction

• Greece and Rome
• Japan
• Middle East

3. Modern history of minor attraction

• Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights (De Orio, 2017) excerpt
• NAMBLA
• Vereniging Martijn ?
• VirPed?

4. Stigma and mental health

• A Long, Dark Shadow (Walker, 2021) excerpt
• B4U-Act
• Rebecca Lievesley
• Sara Janke
• Is Contact with Children Related to Legitimizing Beliefs Toward Sex with Children Among Men with Pedophilia?

5. Paraphilias, psychology and pathology

• Schuler, M. et al (2019). "Empathy in pedophilia and sexual offending against children: A multifaceted approach

6. Child sex abuse - perpetrators

• Prevalence (Abel?)
• Differentiating child sexual abusers
• Grooming
• Incest

7. Child Sex Abuse - victims

• Finkelhor
• Twin Study

8. Punishing offenders

• The Feminist and The Sex Offender (Levine)
• Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us (Horowitz)
• From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear (Horowitz)
• Catherine L. Carpenter
• Recidivism
• Registries
• Civil commitment

9. Pro-reform arguments (AMSC)

• Rind
• Sandfort
• Okami
• Rivas