Posted on 12/15/2022 7:17:29 AM PST by Red Badger
Miranda Galbreath, a licensed professional counselor who provides evaluations and treatment to sex offenders in prison and in her community, called for the destigmatizing of pedophiles in a YouTube video posted in July.
Galbreath, who is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), called pedophiles “minor-attracted persons,” claiming they are “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture” in the video.
“Most folks are making incorrect assumptions about them [pedophiles] without actually knowing much about them, and those assumptions create harm for an already marginalized population,” Galbreath said.
“You may have noticed that I’m using the term ‘minor-attracted persons,’ sometimes abbreviated to MAPs, instead of the more commonly used term pedophile. And I’m doing this because the term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them,” she continued.
Galbreath claimed pedophiles do not “choose” to be attracted to children.
“They’ve not chosen this attraction, just as the rest of us have not chosen whatever our attraction is. You don’t choose to be heterosexual, or to be gay, or whatever you are, and you don’t get to choose to be a minor-attracted person.”
Galbreath also claimed there is a distinction between being sexually attracted to children and molesting children.
“Just like all the rest of us, acting on an attraction is a choice that we make,” she said.
Galbreath bemoaned the fact that there isn’t a lot of research on pedophiles, claiming this is due to false stigma attached to people who want to have sex with children.
“We unfortunately do not have a lot of good research on minor-attracted folks because the label is so stigmatizing that most of these folks do not feel safe to come forward to participate in research or seek support when they need it,” she continued.
“Most of these folks hide their attraction for fear of losing their entire life if they came out as a minor-attracted person. They risk losing their family, their friends, their job, and their safety in the community if people knew of their attraction,” Galbreath said.
“We” excludes me ... and I think thee.
Also see my tagline.
The device used by Dr Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom (Dr Who, To Baker) was much more efficient.
“You may have noticed that I’m using the term ‘minor-attracted persons,’”
When I was 18 there was this 17 year old...was I a “minor attracted person”?
Pedophiles and drug traffickers deserve a firing squad.
Members of any industry that hides such truths have de-legitimized themselves and their industry.
“Galbreath claimed pedophiles do not “choose” to be attracted to children.”
Sounds like she’s making the case that we should just execute them, castrate them, or permanently imprison them. After all, they have no choice in the matter of their compulsions which will lead them to harm the most vulnerable members of society, so what choice do the rest of us have?
“We unfortunately do not have a lot of good research on minor-attracted folks
Ask an old girlfriend of mine she was raped by her aunt and uncle once a month from age 7-13. The aunt was the monster.
workin wi wut we got here...
personally, i’d open his back up and goto work wi a 9volt and a couple leads on his nervous system, make him think he was on fire till that nerve burned out, and then move up to the next one up the line
Just call them “Bidens”
Psychologists are evil. They are the ones who invent all these insane ideas along with their pals, the brain butchering psychiatrists.
I think many of us knew this is where the rolling stone picking up moss was going to take us. Once you start normalizing genital mutilation on children, making them targets of freaks was obvious.
I can see why. Most people don't like it when you visit upon a child a fate worse than death.
If you are attracted to people who not only are legally incapable of consent, but biologically not mature enough for that kind of relationship, then YES, there is something WRONG with you.
Although suitable, that’s too quick. Hang them in front of the courthouse with TV cameras going as an example.*
*My Dad (RIP) believed in eviscerating them.
Basically described in one word: FREAK.
Yep. It's called "Florida."
That’s where I am, in NE Florida aka Florgia.
I’m here in Pensacola, Lower Alabama.
I think the Panhandle is the very best part of FL. But I have a sailboat that won’t fit under the I-10 bridges (50’) and all the marinas south of I-10 get nuked every hurricane. If not for the sailboat, I’d be there for sure.
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