![]() ![]() I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that, previously, has not been studied in order to identify ways to protect children,” stated Walker.Īccording to a profile on 500 Queer Scientists, Walker’s career began as a social worker counseling crime victims. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims. As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent crime. “I want to be clear: child sexual abuse is morally wrong and inexcusable crime. Prior to being placed on administrative leave from ODU, Walker released a statement through the university condemning the sexual abuse of a child. ![]() ![]() It’s our behaviors and responding to that attraction that are either okay or not okay.” (emphasis added) In other words, it’s not who we’re attracted to that’s either okay or not, okay. From my perspective, there is no morality or immorality attached to attraction to anyone because no one can control who they’re attracted to at all. But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to doesn’t indicate anything about the morality of that attraction. “I’ve definitely heard the idea that you brought up though that the use of the term minor attracted person suggests that it’s okay to be attracted to children. Walker also claimed that pedophiles’ attraction to children wasn’t immoral, arguing that actions alone could be moral or immoral. “he stigma that we have against MAPs throughout society can not only affect well-being, but it can actually lead to harm against children,” said Walker. In the controversial interview with the Prostasia Foundation, an activist group seeking to destigmatize pedophilia, Walker discussed her book, “A Long Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,” and claimed that the stigma associated with attraction to minors was harmful - not just to the pedophile, but potentially to children. Walker, a transgender male, goes by they/them pronouns. Although ODU seemingly initially defended the comments, they eventually placed Walker on administrative leave. Meanwhile, many dangerous communities have emerged online, where disordered and depraved individuals anonymously seek each other out and build cultures based on abuse.Earlier this month, an Old Dominion University (ODU) professor of sociology and criminal justice, Allyn Walker, brought global attention to a newer term, “Minor-Attracted Persons” or “MAPs” for short, within a greater argument that pedophiles shouldn’t be ostracized for their urges. Today’s abundance of pornography is also encouraging some people to seek out ever-more extreme sexual fantasies. A cadre of queer-theory-addled academics seem to believe that all social barriers exist to be destroyed. This time there is a greater risk that paedophilia could be successfully rebranded. Thankfully, PIE was dissolved a decade later after many of its key figures were jailed. The legitimate campaign for gay equality was used as a cover to further the sinister aims of child abusers. And, then as now, it was largely those on the progressive left who were duped, while academics offered an intellectual rationale for the cause. Then as now, the language used was of liberation, discrimination and human rights. The influence of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), founded in Edinburgh in 1974, should be a warning against complacency. Who exactly advised the European Commission to adopt this kind of language remains a mystery, but there are several organisations that push it. It seems fair to assume that organisations aiming to remove the stigma of paedophilia are influencing policy. More recently, the odious euphemism has been given a veneer of scholarly legitimacy by academics. Zobnina believes pro-paedophile lobby groups have been pushing the term since the 1990s. Police Scotland’s use of ‘MAP’ may have hit the headlines, but the news has been a long time coming. She believes the use of the term MAP can be understood as part of a campaign to recategorise child abusers as ‘simply “adults attracted to children”’, whose illegal actions are ‘driven by their otherwise normal and legitimate “attraction”’. Zobnina argues that those targeted in the €7million European Commission project would be more accurately referred to as ’paedo-criminals’. She recently wrote to EU commissioner Mariya Gabriel to ask for an inquiry into how the term came to be adopted. Anna Zobnina, coordinator of the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW), has serious concerns about the normalisation of the term MAP by official bodies. ![]()
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