1. Introduction
For years elected officials have gone on a mission to toughen the statutory-age-of-consent laws here in the United States to unreasonable degrees. Ever since self-proclaimed child advocates and the likes have begun spewing their pedophile-panic propaganda in the 1980s, adult-adolescent couples have had to keep their relationships and even marriages out of the public eye as much as possible to avoid problems with mentally unhinged vigilantes and other self-righteous do-gooders.
The good ole' stuck-up former high-school hunk doesn't want any single, lonely, romantically inexperienced man beyond the age of 21 to experience the same first-love romance he did back in middle school and high school, because, heaven forbid, it would circumvent the proverbial caste system of haves and have-nots. He will brag all about it at every high-school reunion and rant about how every less fortunate gentleman is a loser for avoiding him at every high-school reunion or not attending it at all.
So many years ago I recall watching an episode of the television talk show Sally in which there was a young couple that started out as an adult-adolescent love relationship. The woman was 18 years old, and her husband was 30 years old. When they first started dating each other, the woman was 14 years old and her husband was 26 years old, who back then was her boyfriend.
To make a long story short, the young girl's parents had thought that the boyfriend was only 16 years old when he started dating their then-14-year-old daughter. He had a baby face back then. Therefore, they posed no objection to the relationship, because they had no idea that there was a 12-year age gap between their daughter and her boyfriend.
It was not until after the daughter and the boyfriend were both married that the parents found out that the boyfriend was really 30 years old rather than 20 years old. By then, the parents were not able to do anything legally about it through the criminal justice system, because their daughter was of age and her marriage to her boyfriend was perfectly legal. Strangely enough, the topic of that particular episode of Sally was not about adult men passing themselves off as teenage boys to get permission from a teenage girl's parents to date their daughter.
There were a number of talk shows way back when that I encountered that presented similar scenarios as the one above. However, not even one of them specifically delved into that particular subject matter. These talk shows were always about something else, and somehow the subject of adult men slipping under the radar of teenage girls' parents' age-approval system never got its own episode on a television talk show.
After the television talk show industry shrank to what it is today, American society became harsher on non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships than what it was when adult-adolescent couples were actually able to appear on the multitude of television talk shows to show the world that their relationships were not necessarily toxic.
The introduction of YouTube intensified all this hatred and hostility against adult-adolescent couples that you see today. For example, after I became active on YouTube back in 2013, I came across this one 22-year-old Malaysian gentleman who had a 15-year-old girlfriend.
Other YouTubers from industrialized, English-speaking nations were constantly harassing this gentleman and making fun of him because of his relationship with a high-school girl despite that it was not stigmatized in his part of the world. He would get furious and lash back at them; but every time that he did so, they would become more verbally brutal than before in their posts in his videos' comments sections. They would slander him by calling him a pedophile, when he really wasn't one.
What it comes down to is this. For the past four decades, adult-adolescent couples have increasingly had to fight off individuals who wrongfully label their relationships as a form of pedophilia. Adult men with adolescent girlfriends or even wives have had to struggle to disassociate themselves from pedophilia and distance themselves from pedophiles as much as possible, and nowadays this challenge is much more difficult than it was in past decades.
Fact has it that self-proclaimed child advocates and the likes refuse to believe that there is any difference between an adult man who married his significantly younger 35-year-old wife when she was 14 or 15 years old and some nut job who goes kidnapping a 5-year-old girl and committing all sorts of unconscionable sex acts against her. Although I do not deny that some non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships are toxic, I wholeheartedly disagree with the school of thought that every non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationship is destined to become an ongoing episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
I have recently come across a YouTube channel that belongs to a pedophile-rights organization named the Newgon Organization. They claim that they coined the term "MAP," which is a "Minor-Attracted Person." In other words, they believe that there is no difference between Don Johnson and Donald James Smith.
If you don't know who these two men are, Don Johnson is an actor who started dating Melanie Griffith when he was 22 years old and she was 13 or 14 years old; whereas Donald James Smith is a child molester who brutally raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl in Florida. It's sort of like comparing a Salvadorian pillar of his community with an MS-13 gang member.
Any gentleman out there reading this article here of mine who currently is involved in a romance with a teenage girl or is married to a woman significantly younger than you who was a teenage girl when you first fell in love with her, you need to listen closely to what I have to say. STAY AWAY FROM PEDOPHILE-RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS! Also, STAY AWAY FROM THE NEWGON ORGANIZATION!
They do not care about you or your significant other. They don't care about your day-to-day struggles. If you are arrested and sent to jail or prison for allegedly consummating your relationship with your significant other, they are not going to come to your rescue and get you out of the Big House. They are just using you, because the LGBTQ community has refused to allow them into their political circles.
Now, if you are a 20-something-year-old man or older who has a girlfriend of middle-school or high-school age, I am not encouraging you or anyone to break the law. After your significant other comes of age, you will both have an ample amount of time to share intimacy with each other from that point on. Never mind what all these men-hating pseudo-feminists say about adult men waiting until their girlfriend reaches the statutory age of consent. They need to butt out and mind their own business, because we men are not their carnal property.
2. Pedophile-Rights Organizations Can Be Wolves Disguised In Sheep's Clothing
The term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person" is just as deceiving as the term "UFO." That is, a UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object. However, many Americans believe that a UFO is actually an alien spacecraft. Well, it does hold true that if an alien spacecraft were to reach our planet, it would appear to us as bizarrely surreal. Therefore, all alien spaceships would be UFOs to us. However, all UFOs are not alien spaceships.
Well, the same rule of thumb applies to the term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person." All pedophiles are MAPs. However, not every MAP is a pedophile. The Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("DSM-5") specifies that a pedophile is someone 16 years of age or older who is sexually attracted to a pre-pubescent child under the age of 13 (under 11 years old in certain circumstances) and is at least five years that person's junior. There are all sorts of exclusions to this definition of pedophilia, but that's another article for another time.
The elephant in the room here is that like Dr. Ray Blanchard, pedophile-rights activists are aggressively attempting to broaden the definition of pedophilia to include adolescents as objects of pedophilic desire so that additional people will be wrongfully lumped in with real pedophiles and become vulnerable to their luring tactics. Dr. Blanchard is another charlatan with dollar signs in his eyes, and he belongs in the Mental-Health Profession's Hall of Shame.
People in the Newgon Organization claim that they want to convince the American Psychiatric Association ("A. P. A.") to remove the adverse diagnosis of pedophilia from the DSM-5, but their actions indicate the opposite. They're trying to misguide the public to believe that hebephilia and ephebophilia are no different from pedophilia, when reality has it that hebephilia and ephebophilia are really nothing more than social constructs that needlessly serve as negative connotations against innocent individuals.
In a nutshell, any definition of pedophilia beyond the parameters established by the DSM-5 constitutes a civil liability in the form of defamation of character. Hebephilia and ephebophilia have never been reclassified as psychiatric disorders; and they fall within the protective umbrella of chronoastiphilia, which makes an individual who falls into that category no different from, say, a 67-year-old man who is sexually attracted to a 32-year-old woman. That is, teleiophilia that involves noticeable age gaps between partners also falls within the protective umbrella of chronoastiphilia.
The A. P. A. did extensive research to draw these conclusions and to place them in the DSM-5. I may not be a big fan of shrinks, but I will not dispute the fact that the A. P. A. selects the cream of the crop in their profession to research these kinds of matters and form conclusions about them.
The protective umbrella of chronoastiphilia has nothing to do with pedophilia. Pedophilia is a paraphilia and a psychiatric disorder, and it is an entirely different animal all of its own. What has happened is that pedophile-rights organizations were unsuccessful at getting the LGBTQ activists to accept them within their political circles. Therefore, these same pedophile-rights activists are wrongfully trying to hijack the protective umbrella of chronoastiphilia to serve their own subversive agenda.
Now, I don't like the terms "hebephile," "hebephilia," "ephebophile," and "ephebophilia," because they are derogatory labels that serve no meaningful purpose to society. They only create further divisions within our society. These terms are also deceiving in that they mislead the Court of Public Opinion to believe that any man over 21 years old who has ever fallen in love with an adolescent girl is somehow adversely wired inside the same way as pedophiles are, when nothing could be any further than the truth.
As I have stressed in other articles of mine and I will stress again and again, pedophiles as defined in the DSM-5 will always be what they are. For example, if a man in his thirties is into sexually molesting female preschoolers, he will have that same dangerous impulse in him ten, twenty, thirty, forty and more years from now. He is not going to evolve into someone who pursues sex with women his own age or cougars.
On the other hand, whenever there is a situation when, say, a man in his twenties or even older falls in love with a 14-, 15-, or 16-year-old girl, there is always a chance that he will marry her and start a family with her someday. When she is old and decrepit, he will still be in love with her.
Now, is there a possibility that that same man will dump her later on for a 13-year-old girl? It is possible, but not probable. By the time his wife whom he fell in love with when she was an adolescent gets to be in her thirties or forties, this same man is going to be in a different place in his life, and he will have no desire to get involved with a 13-year-old girl inasmuch as he will be a happily married man.
Unfortunately, being an adult man and being attracted to an adolescent girl (12 to 17 years old) is more taboo in the American culture than it has ever been, because pedophile-rights activists are attempting to fool the Court of Public Opinion into believing that adult men with female teenage partners are pedophiles' allies and are no different from them. Fact has it that adult men who gravitate toward female teenagers hate pedophiles and want nothing to do with them, because, among other things, they hate being equated to them.
My cousin has been married to his wife for nearly four decades. When he first met her, she was only 15 years old and he was 30 years old. However, their age difference did not stop them from falling in love with each other. The following year he married her. This was his second marriage, but it was much more successful than his first marriage. His first wife was close to him in age difference, and she treated him horribly.
Yes, I know. Men-hating pseudo-feminists like Fraidy Reiss and Jeanne Smoot would both be against my cousin's marriage to his second wife, but they don't run the show in everyone's lives. I couldn't care less about them or their agenda. I couldn't be any happier if they both dropped off the face of the Earth.
Anyhow, a bald-headed man once approached my cousin's 4-year-old stepdaughter shortly after he was married to his second wife, and this bald-headed man attempted to sexually molest her. Do you think that my cousin invited him over for a martini? NO!!!!!! What my cousin did was threaten to kill this man if he came around his stepdaughter again. Therefore, I would have every reason to contradict anyone who falsely accuses my cousin of being a pedophile or wanting to consort with them.
The term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person" dangerously conflates men like my cousin with monsters like the bald-headed man who accosted my cousin's 4-year-old stepdaughter. Self-proclaimed child advocates, men-hating pseudo-feminists, and the likes are buying right into this school of thought that pedophile-rights organizations are peddling to them, and the irony of it is that these same social-justice warriors insist that they are out to rid the planet of pedophiles.
All you have to do is read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell L. Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end, and you'll realize that nobody decent is benefitting from the actions of pedophile-rights activists alongside self-proclaimed child advocates who have become strange bedfellows in this mission of theirs to broaden the clinical definition of "pedophilia" and "pedophile." Mental-health professionals are starting to cash in on this detrimental psyop.
Now, some of you can argue that there are good pedophiles and bad pedophiles. Or you may even argue that perhaps adult men who fall in love with teenage girls are high-functioning pedophiles. However, unless we're talking about adult men who are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children under the age of 11, it would be better simply not to accuse anyone of being a pedophile at all unless they actually are one.
The Newgon Organization is catching innocent bystanders in their line of fire by pushing the term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person" into the English language insofar as it has clearly become a misnomer to fool the world into believing that a man over 21 years old who falls in love with an adolescent girl is no different from one who sexually preys upon a toddler in a playground or a park. At the same time, they will seek out a young man who has to hide his relationship with his teenaged girlfriend because of their age difference and mislead him into believing that they are on his side.
Nevertheless, upon discovering the Newgon Organization's YouTube channel, I decided to go ahead and watch a number of videos posted on it to find out what exactly these people are trying to peddle to the American public. When I first stumbled across this organization's YouTube channel, I was completely unaware that they were a pedophile-rights organization, because, after all, a handful of their videos had nothing to do with pedophilia.
Below is the video of theirs wherein they introduce themselves and explain what their "purpose" is. They misrepresent themselves to be a human-rights organization when nothing could be any further from the truth.
The Deceiving Introduction To The Newgon Organization
In two other videos of theirs, the Newgon Organization provides a description of what exactly the term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person" means and how they coined it and popularized it. Both of those videos are below.
The Deceiving Term "MAP" Or "Minor-Attracted Person"
When you first surf around on the Newgon Organization's YouTube channel, you'll find stories about how adult-adolescent couples were either wronged by the law or by society or by both. Below is a video about the ordeal that Heather Corinna went through with the criminal justice system when she was 15 years old and she had a 23-year-old boyfriend.
Heather Corinna And Her Boyfriend Suffered Great Injustices From The Authorities When She Was 15 Years Old
In case any of you don't know who Heather Corinna is, she is a feminist and the author of the essay titled "Rage of Consent" that questions the fairness and integrity of the statutory-age-of-consent laws here in the United States. After watching this one video and no other ones on the Newgon Organization's YouTube channel, you would think that they were simply an organization that seeks to reform the American statutory-rape laws pertaining strictly to non-Platonic adolescent-adult couples.
When you watch the next video below, the circumstances behind a 20-something-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl falling love with each other become more controversial than before. I don't particularly like the idea of a schoolteacher having a romantic relationship with a student no matter how close in age difference they are, but I can appreciate that there are some exceptions to the rule.
A Love Story About A Controversial Couple
In this case, Will Durant was 27 years old and his future wife, Ariel (Chaya Kaufman), was 14 years old when they first met and eventually fell in love with each other. Of course, it was 1912. A grand aunt of mine told me that it wasn't uncommon for American girls that young to pursue a formal courtship with an older man back in those days.
When this same couple married, the man was 28 years old and the girl was 15 years old. When Dr. Ben Carson's parents got married, his mother was 13 years old and his father was 28 years old. Nobody has ever pervert-shamed Dr. Carson's father, and he was not without his fair share of faults. How did we allow American society to become so poisoned with pedophile-panic propaganda as it is?
The next video on the Newgon Organization's YouTube channel would lead one to believe that they don't want people lumping in non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships with unconscionable incidents in which some creepy, old man has sexually victimized a 5-year-old girl. Some of the information they provide in that video relates to an article I had published here on the Hive writing platform. Watch the video below.
The American Psychological Association Cashed In On The Moral Panic Sweeping The United States Regarding Adult-Adolescent Couples Back In 1999
Now, I can appreciate Dan Savage's argument that his sexual trysts at 15 years old with older men have nothing to do with a grown man raping a 5-year-old girl and should not be conflated or lumped in together. However, in other videos, the Newgon Organization does precisely that. In other words, it's as though they peddle the idea that if adult-adolescent relationships and even marriages have worked out in the past, then there must be nothing wrong with child molesters making sexual advances at little kids barely out of diapers.
Where this YouTube channel really goes off the rails and sets off alarms in my head is when they start trying to justify sexual acts between small children below the age of eleven and adults, both young and old. It's almost as though they are trying to bring people's guard down at first if those people initially question the statutory-rape laws pertaining to adult-adolescent couples.
I'm not going to name the titles of any of the videos on the Newgon Organization's YouTube channel that condone acts of pedophilia, because I don't really want anyone going to those videos and getting grossed out. It's not worth it.
Anyhow, anyone involved in a non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationship needs to avoid pedophile-rights organizations like the Newgon Organization as much as possible. They will only pretend to care about your future in an attempt to lure you into their madness so that they can feed their own agenda. Most of what they claim to be their objectives is completely outlandish, and they will probably never materialize here in the United States of America.
Nonetheless, irreparable harm has already ensued since 2007 because of the Newgon Organization's actions to coin the term "MAP" or "Minor-Attracted Person." Even though ephebophilia has no more to do with pedophilia than homosexuality itself, child-advocate extremists are already equating non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships to pedophilia. A good example to this effect is an article titled "Pedophiles put themselves under the LGBT umbrella in rebranding effort" by Doug Mainwaring.
I may not be a liberal per se. However, I looked into Mr. Mainwaring's background, and he strikes me as a right-wing reactionary who wants to turn our nation into an ongoing rerun of Leave It To Beaver or of some other 1950s sitcom from his white-picket-fence fantasy world. What we also must beware of is that his kind exist on the left side of the aisle too in the form of well-meaning social-justice warriors whose so-called good deeds cause more trouble than anything positive.
It's interesting how people like Mr. Mainwaring will get riled up every time they see a 15-year-old girl walking down the street, holding hands with a young man who looks slightly older than high-school age. However, those same people never seem to suspect that Peter Lanza is a pedophile who sexually molested his youngest son, the late Adam Lanza, when he was a little kid. Of course, that's neither here nor there.
At the end of the day, when a teenage girl in middle school or high school becomes pregnant as a result of a forcible rape and decides to keep the baby, her child will grow up hating his or her father. On the other hand, when a teenage girl in middle school or high school becomes pregnant as a result of a so-called "statutory rape" and decides to keep the baby, her child will grow up hating police officers and prosecutors instead. Get the picture?
3. Too Many Americans Either Have A Bad Case Of POCD By Proxy Or Are Just Plain Dumb
There is a YouTuber who goes by the user name of ShoeOnHead. She has posted a handful of videos regarding "MAPs." In this one video of hers below, she appears to be careful about not referring to victims of pedophilia as including teenagers. However, those of us who are critical thinkers can see how she is feeding into the misrepresentation of what pedophilia really is. Here is her video below for you to watch.
YouTuber ShoeOnHead May Be Another Small-Minded Hothead Who Believes That Teenagers Are No Different From Toddlers
If YouTuber ShoeOnHead is talking about adults who prey on small children under the age of 11 in her video above, then I'm completely on board with her. However, if she is even implying that all non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships are forms of child sexploitation, then I must discount her rant as nothing more than pedophile-panic propaganda that promotes the terms "pedophile" and "pedophilia" as misnomers. Either way, the term "MAP" has no place in the English language.
What is concerning is that most everyone in her comments section seem to suffer from an extreme case of POCD by proxy, for a lack of a better description. If you ever click onto this same video, don't waste your time, trying to enlighten anyone in the comments section. A large number of them are brain-dead. It's like trying to prove to a religious fanatic that embryonic stem cell research is not infanticide. They will only gaslight you and get on the defensive.
If you even disagree with them on any juvenile-justice-related topic, they will accuse you of being a pedophile enabler inasmuch as they really have no factually based arguments with which to contradict you. They're off in their own world to the exclusion of reality. They believe that you're either with them or on the side of the pedophiles, which only demonstrates how much they couldn't care less about the truth.
Speaking of worlds, these same people will subscribe to the school of thought that the world owes you nothing. However, if an adult man and an adolescent girl are happily together in a non-Platonic relationship, these same people will hypocritically believe that the whole world needs to get involved in putting a stop to it.
The United States is not a desirable place to find love, get married, and start a family. Most of the people who posted in the comments section of the video above make it an undesirable place.
For example, there is this one YouTuber who goes by the user name of @anti-theocrat8815 who attempts to include the subject of "To Catch A Predator" in the comments section of YouTuber ShoeOnHead's video. A YouTuber who goes by the user name of 
Well, Chris Hansen clearly stated on camera that his television show had nothing to do with pedophiles or pedophilia. It was solely about enforcing the statutory age of consent in each state jurisdiction where they operated. Likewise, pedophilia has nothing to do with the legal voting age.
Some of these self-proclaimed child advocates and the likes want to raise the age of majority to 25 years old. If that were to happen, are we Americans going to start accusing men in their thirties of being MAPs for becoming involved with a 24-year-old woman? It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
I decided to watch another video of YouTuber ShoeOnHead to find out if she has allowed the hysteria about MAPs to lure her into believing that adult-adolescent relationships were no different from child molesters kidnapping and victimizing pre-pubescent children. Here is another video of hers.
YouTuber ShoeOnHead Shows Herself To Be Ignorant About Cross-Generational Teenage Sexuality
YouTuber ShoeOnHead does get the definition of pedophobia correct. Pedophile-rights organizations are already corrupting the English language. However, she does not get the fact that the term "MAP" is wrongfully conflating non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships with actual heinous acts of sexual abuse against small children under 11 years of age.
Nonetheless, the picture of Chris Hansen on her video's thumbnail already sets the tone of her cluelessness about what pedophilia is and what it is not. She is certain that if there is a substantial age difference between a man and a woman and they got married when the woman was an adolescent of 12 or 13 years of age, then this man is going to rape all their children that they procreate.
She is wrong about adolescents as young as 12 or 13 years old marrying significantly older partners in older times. I've known of a number of women who got married that young to noticeably older men back in the early 1900s. As a matter of fact, in one of my articles, I even describe a true story of that nature that took place down in Puerto Rico in the early 1900s.
She gets upset about the nameless man in the audio of her video bringing up ancient times. However, pedophilia was conceptualized in 1886. Therefore, it is an archaic clinical term. I'm not admitting that I agree with everything that this man states in his contradiction to her. I don't. However, this woman is not completely grounded in reality herself despite that her intentions may seem noble on their surface.
She likes using the term "grown-ass" and that alone serves as a red flag that she really couldn't care less about the truth regarding adult-adolescent couples. I'm not defending pedophile-rights activists. Quite the contrary, they repel me. However, if she believes that every man above the legal age of majority that has ever fallen in love with a girl of middle-school or high-school age is a pedophile, then she is literally accusing both John Walsh and Corey Feldman of being pedophiles.
John Walsh, who is the co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, believe it or not, began dating his current wife when he was 22 years old and she was only 16 years old. When Corey Feldman was 18 years old (a legal adult), he was dating a 14-year-old girl (Drew Barrymore). Yet child-advocate extremists seem to like to place him high up on a pedestal and worship him as a warrior against "Hollywood pedophiles." In any event, I dare YouTuber ShoeOnHead to accuse John Walsh and Corey Feldman of being pedophiles.
Both YouTuber ShoeOnHead and the nameless man are incorrect in believing that 12- and 13-year-olds who are in Tanner Stage 2 and above are children, because science dictates that there is no such thing as pubescent children or adolescent children. According to science, childhood is confined to pre-pubescence.
YouTuber ShoeOnHead's statements that teenagers only do sexual things with other teenagers is way off base. It causes me to wonder how sheltered of a life she has had. Teenagers have been falling in love with adults and even marrying them since the beginning of time. Duhhhh!!!! It doesn't even take a rocket scientist to figure that much out. I have boatloads of true stories on my Hive-Blog channel and my PEAKD channel about girls as young as 12 years old marrying men twice or even thrice their age.
When I was 8 years old, I went to this one church camp where kids from all over the United States spent the summer. Above my cabin was a cabin full of pre-teenage and teenage girls. When my fellow campers and I were trying to fall asleep, these girls would be loud walking around into the late hours of the night.
There was this one 13-year-old girl whose name I cannot recall. She might have been 14 years old, but she definitely was not old enough to get her driver's license. She was having a romance with one of the camp counselors. He appeared to be at least in his early twenties. Nobody thought anything of it. Even other camp counselors got a good laugh out of it whenever the two became dramatic about their love relationship.
I realize that times have changed since then. However, I don't believe that people themselves have changed since then. People in non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships have only become more discreet in how they conduct their romantic interactions.
It may only seem that teenagers only do sexual things with other teenagers, because since the 1990s, there has been a trend of middle-school and high-school girls passing their 20-something-year-old boyfriends off as teenage boys so that their parents won't forbid their non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships. Of course, YouTuber ShoeOnHead absolutely didn't do her research. Moreover, teenage sex has nothing to do with pedophilia, even when teenagers pair-bond with older partners.
This woman really has her head in the clouds. Pedophile-rights activists are actually contributing to her ignorance instead of enlightening her. Of course, it is no use trying to enlighten anyone like her, because people like her will never get it and they will only gaslight you when you call them out on their nonsense. It's kind of like a my-way-or-the-highway mindset with them.
For a moment, YouTuber ShoeOnHead starts to make sense when she tells this gentleman that he has no way of defending an adult's sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children 10 years old down to 2 years old. She is right that he shouldn't be bringing up the topic of teenage sexuality, because it has nothing to do with pedophilia. What she gets blatantly wrong is her assertion that every non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationship that has ever existed has been exploitative and abusive.
Her advice for anyone to go to therapy is a real misfire on her part. Currently, the approval rating for psychiatrists sits at an all-time low of 38 percent here in the United States; and anyone who is attracted to anyone below the statutory age of consent is not going to walk into a shrink's office to tell them about it, because the mandatory reporting laws in their state jurisdiction may very well compel that shrink to notify the authorities regardless of whether any law has or has not been broken.
It's not as black and white as she seems to believe. Now, I harbor no hostility against her. I realize that she is a product of the collective stupidity that exists in our nation regarding juvenile-justice-related topics, even though what little wisdom she has does shine through the clouds now and then. The main problem here with her is that her ignorance could be extremely dangerous to her in the future.
All we have to do is look at the Dunbar Village Rape from 2007 where boys as young as 14 years of age brutally raped a 35-year-old woman and sexually victimized her 12-year-old son, and we can clearly see that YouTuber ShoeOnHead lives in a paper-doll world in fooling herself into thinking that adolescents as young as 12 years old never stray outside their peer circles in search of carnal pleasure to the point that they may even have unscrupulous intentions.
YouTuber ShoeOnHead could go out her front door tomorrow morning, believing everything that the Puritanical establishment here in our nation has brainwashed her to believe is true. Then, much to her surprise, a group of underage boys as young as 13 years old could pull her into a dark alley and take turns gang-raping her. As what happens to so many women, she could experience an orgasm from the sexual violence.
When she reports it to the police, the prosecutor could turn around and charge her with statutory rape or the likes despite that she was the victim in the matter. It happens more often than you think. Then perhaps she would have no other choice but to pull her head out of the clouds. By then, all of her social-justice-warrior friends on a mission to save all the youth of the world will have turned their backs on her like betraying angels.
Now, would I ever wish this on a woman? Of course not! Even the thought of it is horrendous.
There was a 13-year-old girl back in 2008 whose name was Alisha Dean. Her modus operandi was to fool adult men into believing that she was a 19-year-old divorcee by presenting herself that way on her MySpace account. Two men in their twenties went to prison because of her. One of them was 24 years old when she first had sex with him, and she was 12 years old at the time.
If one of these Chris-Hansen wannabes who film online sex-sting operations to post on YouTube were to fall prey to a 13-year-old girl like Alisha Dean, they might find themselves eating their own words regarding how they view adolescents as young as 12 and 13 years old as being no different from toddlers. I would never wish something like this on even my worst enemy. However, sadly enough, perhaps these people will only learn the hard way.
If the day ever comes that a 13- or 14-year-old girl slaps Chris Hansen with a paternity suit, the entire mainstream media will be having a collosal field day. It will be the end of the United States as we know it, and from that point on there will be no going back to what our nation was.
In a Quora forum about MAPs, this one commentator named "Hot Sauce" stated therein:
The term MAP (minor attracted person) is someone who has attraction to minors and is over the age of 16. These people have pedophilic tendencies and wish to have sexual or romantic relationships with minors.
The term No-MAP is somebody who identifies as a map however is stating publicly that they have no connection to any minors and are not attempting to contact minors. Clearly by default these are at least a little bit better than the other variety who are purposely attempting to have relationships with minors.
this is basically disguised pedophilia. these types of people will have certain age ranges such as 6–10, 11–16 etc etc.
The reason why there is such a pushback from the LGBT community is because we do not want to be associated with a literal pedophiles. Sexuality is based off of gender and not age, The only times that dating someone who is under 18 is acceptable when it comes to Romeo and Juliet laws (for example a 18 year old dating a 16 year old is very commonly seen as okay.)
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You are so wrong, Hot Sauce. Pedophiles are not normally attracted to adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age; and if an 11-year-old is in Tanner Stage 2 or beyond, they will not even pay them any attention. Also, your post did not help, Hot Sauce. Hot Sauce? You are an example of another dumb American who is poorly educated in such matters.
Nevertheless, pedophile-rights organizations are well aware of the kind of ignorance there is out there among people like YouTuber ShoeOnHead and Hot Sauce, and they know how to manipulate them to get these same people to hate on adult-adolescent couples or at least the adult male half of them. These pedophile-rights organizations will then misuse this same alienation they have caused men involved in adult-adolescent relationships to pressure these men to join their forces. My response is, "DON'T DO IT!" These people are not your friends.
4. Final Thoughts
When an adult man has a love interest somewhat on the young side of the age spectrum, it doesn't necessarily make him a pedophile, a child molester, or a serial child rapist. When an adult man falls in love with a girl who is exactly at the statutory age of consent, which in many state jurisdictions is 16 years old, nobody has the right arbitrarily to call him a sexual predator merely because of an age difference. However, when that girl he likes is at or above the age of majority of 18, something is seriously wrong with society when somebody accuses him of being a pedophile despite that he is not one.
Nobody is still a child at 18 years old, and an accusation of pedophilia against a man for being attracted to an 18-year-old girl is defamatory at best no matter how old he is. The United States of America has been gradually turning into a Puritanical black hole through the years. Adult men who fall into adult-adolescent relationships are needlessly hated on and shunned.
Pedophile-rights organizations like the Newgon Organization are fanning the flames of such hostility against adult men in adult-adolescent relationships by even implying that these adult men have anything remotely to do with pedophiles. Absorbing them against their will into the "MAP" vortex will not make their lives easier.
Pedophile-rights organizations have lost their battle to worm their way into the LGBTQ community here in the United States. Therefore, they're attempting to latch onto adult-adolescent couples in a deceiving effort to mislead everyone that they are all one big, happy family. The major difference here is that adult-adolescent couples do not have the same support system that LGBTQ couples do.
The best thing for adult men in non-Platonic adult-adolescent relationships is to stay away from pedophile-rights organizations. They will only pull you down with them.
I'm not going to encourage an adolescent girl between 12 and 17 years of age to get involved in a relationship with a 50-, 40- or even 30-year-old man, because it will open the window to all sorts of social pressures and ostracism once it gets out into the open. However, if I were at a family reunion and a 63-year-old aunt of mine were to tell me that she married her now-79-year-old husband when she was only 14 or 15 years old, I would not go so far as to accuse her husband of being the next John Couey or Donald James Smith merely because of their age difference.
I have never been in favor of bringing the term “MAP” into the English language, because it creates all sorts of confusion and misinterpretations. There are diehard child advocates who don’t like that term, because it gives actual pedophiles ammunition to water down their crimes against small children by claiming that what they are doing is no different from a 19-year-old man (an adult) taking his 17-year-old girlfriend (a minor) out on a date for Saint Valentine’s Day.
People who question the statutory-age-of-consent laws in our nation don’t like the term "MAP," because it implies that there is no difference between the Don Johnsons and the Donald James Smiths of the world. The Newgon Organization is not benefitting anyone by promoting this term except for their own agenda.
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