MattWalsh

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There was a previous post on that community about Burggit shutting down, but because it just linked to the announcement without explaining any of the details it didn't get a lot of attention or generate much discussion, with most of the comments simply consisting of "loli bad".

So I made a post yesterday specifically focusing on the grievances with the Lemmy software that the Burggit admins brought up, and there were some interesting comments, with one of the Lemmy devs responding as well.

To summarize: Most of the instance admins who commented seem to agree that the Lemmy software is lacking and devs are rather slow with updates, others contend that coding moderation tools is difficult and boring, some recommend addons/tools that have been created by other devs to help with Lemmy, and some people say they've had few problems with their instances, or found easy workarounds to the known problems. Nutomic, one of the Lemmy devs, also says that many of the issues that have been brought up have either been solved or improved in more recent versions of Lemmy. Some users also discuss what's reasonable to expect from the small dev team considering the current funding that they receive, and there's a bit of bickering in there too.

People are still commenting on the post so I definitely recommend checking out the full thread to see how the discussion evolves.

[โ€“] MattWalsh@burggit.moe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly I don't really care whether some website works more like Reddit or Twitter. What I mainly liked about Burggit was the focus of privacy and free speech, so I might consider joining the Sharkey instance.

What other instances does it federate with? I like that Burggit didn't censor RQD2, and although the method to post from Mastodon to Lemmy is a bit scuffed if it still works with Sharkey that's honestly fine by me.

[โ€“] MattWalsh@burggit.moe 4 points 9 months ago

Society really does a disservice to children by denying them sexual pleasure ๐Ÿ˜”

~~I'm more than happy to help remedy that, though ๐Ÿฅด~~

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While looking for a photo to use in the meme I just posted to !mapmemes@rqd2.net I found out that there are lots of groups and albums on Flickr dedicated to the beauty of kids with hundreds of thousands of photos and tens of thousands of members. And some of the pics include nude or semi-nude kids too.

It's both funny and sad how in our sexophobic and puritan society you can recognize and admire the beauty of children even in the nude as long as you don't "sexualize it" (whatever normies think that means). But the moment you recognize that this beauty can extend into the realm of sexuality you're suddenly a "freak", "groomer", "degenerate", plus a number of other nasty labels that non-MAPs like to put onto us.

The way society tries to inherently separate kids from sexuality despite the fact that many children enjoy exploring and expressing their sexuality and that a significant chunk of adults find kids attractive is nothing short of pathetic. I'm reminded of an excerpt from a book I once saw on Reddit:

 

Perhaps unsurprisingly this is not the most well-informed and unbiased article on MAPs, but it's still interesting to read about what they thought of us as they read through the posts in these darknet forums.

While the article was written by someone at Cracked, the info itself comes from "Pam", an undergrad student who's supposedly not a pedophile herself and was just infiltrating 7axxn to get info for her research project (never even heard of this forum before, probably long dead and gone). She has 5 main takeaways from her "research":

  1. In The Dark Web, You'll Find A Whole Pedophile "Community" (They talk about how there are quite a few forums in the darknet with thousands of users.)

  2. There Are Two Opposing "Camps" Of Child Molester (Pro-abuse (hurtcore) and pro-contact but anti-abuse. Of course, the writer believes that all sexual contact with children is abuse so they don't care about this distinction.)

  3. For Some People, It's A Family Business (Yes, lots of pedophiles have sex with their kids. What a shocker.)

  4. Child Molesters Have A Handbook (They found out about The Pedophile's Handbook.)

  5. They Are Very Good At Staying Anonymous (Yes, most of us don't dox ourselves and avoid giving out personal information. Surprising, I know.)

[โ€“] MattWalsh@burggit.moe 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very occasionally, if at all. Usually in the context of remembering how homosexuality and pederasty were common and accepted then (based).

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See the resources linked here for some info on the flaws common in the literature about pedophilia/child sexual activity: https://rqd2.net/post/2149

 

On 20 May 1997 Sebastian Bleisch was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' detention by the regional court in Schwerin for having used adolescents who were still under 16 years old in the 60 or so pornographic films he had directed since 1990. He evaded conviction on more serious charges, however, after the defence showed that the boys had approached Bleisch willingly and no psychological harm had occurred.

I believe someone had also interviewed one of the boys who worked under him, now an adult, where he said that he considered Bleisch to be a friend and mentor. I'll see if I can find this interview.

Edit: Here's the interviews. I'm not sure if this is where I first saw them or not, but it should suffice to show that Mr. Bleisch had a good relationship with the boys with whom he worked. As this page notes towards the end:

The authors quote from the verdict that says that Bleisch "ruthlessly used the developing sexuality of these youths, their curiosity, disorientation and natural urge to assert themselves", then laconically note that "the abused call the abuser a good friend".

The mental gymnastics of the prosecution in order to hold onto their biases and ignore reality is as flimsy and pathetic as you might expect.

 

The link is an anonymous front-end for YouTube so anyone should be able to watch without being put on a list or whatever.

In 1977 several French intellectuals signed a petition calling for an end to the discrimination against gay men and to revise age of consent laws.

While the narrator in the video argues that this is likely due to the open-mindedness, yearning for freedom and skepticism of the status quo that was prominent among French intellectuals at the time, there is at least some evidence that Micheal Foucault may have been a MAP.

There is a paucity of evidence on any supposed relationship between attraction to minors and political ideology - yet both sides of the political spectrum are quick to throw accusations of "grooming" at the other based on anecdotes.

Regardless of what may be the current relationship between minor-attraction and politics, in my opinion it's abundantly obvious that early efforts to normalize pedophilia came primarily from the left. Postmodernism and anti-establishment, anti-homophobia and pro-sexual-freedom sentiment went hand in hand with pro-MAP and anti-age-of-consent efforts.

It is for these reasons that it baffles me that there are any MAPs who lean to the right. I've seen plenty of transphobic, racist and hyperreligious remarks on darknet forums, so I can say that there are plenty of right-wing MAPs.

It's the left who advocates for sexual freedom, who fights against homophobia and sexism, who pushes for sex education to be inclusive of queer topics, and who advocates for the rights of transgender children. It's the right who opposes all of these things.

The trans movement is, in my opinion, one of the best avenues we have for possibly normalizing minor-attraction, as trans people and their supporters argue that it's not only harmless, but good for children to discover and define their own identities, and that they should be able to seek the medical treatment necessary to affirm this identity.

If it can be argued that kids can consent to medical treatment, it can also be argued that they can consent to sexual activity as it doesn't involve possible permanent changes and side effects. So the trans rights movement and pro-MAP movement go hand in hand, or at the very least they should.

As we see more people advocate for the acceptance of trans children and sexual liberation, and as dissatisfaction with the status quo increases across the world, I have hope that soon these sentiments will intertwine and we'll start to see more and more people advocating for the sexual freedom of children and MAPs.

 

Whenever I'm out in public and kids are around I can't help but check them out and gauge how pretty I think they are. I don't really do the same to adults even though I'm also attracted to them, maybe because I don't find them quite as hot as kids. As I've mentioned in a previous post I don't think being a MAP is bad, but I can't help but feel a bit guilty about this habit of mine ๐Ÿ˜…

I've seen some MAPs say that while they find kids sexy they aren't really romantically attracted to them, but that's not the case for me. I love how kids are playful, spontaneous, happy and full of love to give, and I would like to have a kid of my own to nurture and love them.

But I'm only human... and I can't help but also find them hot as hell :P

 

I think I was around 14 or 15 when I started discovering this side of my sexuality. I don't remember exactly how it happened, so it was either one of two things:

I first started noticing that I was still attracted to kids a lot younger than me, which prompted me to look for loli/shota porn, and then I went deeper down the rabbit hole...

Or I first started getting into loli/shota, which made me realize I was also attracted to kids and then I went deeper down the rabbit hole.

At any rate, I was always good with computers so I quickly figured out the inner workings of the MAP world. At first I wasn't even sure if I was a MAP or not and I had this idea that I would seek professional help to "not hurt any kids".

A lot has changed since then and I've become much more comfortable with my sexuality. Thinking back to when I was younger, this pretty much echoed how I felt about being bi - going from denial and thinking that I should go through conversion therapy to being out and proud. (Well, I'm not out about being a MAP, though I am proud.)

Now the only thing I'm struggling with is trying to figure out if I'm also zoosexual or just a confused furry lol. Though because now I'm a lot more comfortable with expressing and exploring my sexuality I don't feel guilty about this possibility, and I'm more willing to accept myself if I am indeed a zoo - though even if I'm not I think the struggles of MAPs and zoos are very similar so I'll definitely still remain an ally.

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