The Hidden Threat of the NOP Community: Normalising Paedophilia
(Donât Hurt Their Feelings Or Else They Might Molest A Kid)
In case you didnât know, there are two active paedophile communities here on tumblr (though there is a lot of overlap): the MAP community (Minor Attracted Persons) and the NOP community (Non-Offending Paedophiles).
At first glance, you might be tempted to sympathise with the NOP community â a group of people allegedly looking for support as they rid themselves of a harmful paraphilia that they endlessly profess that they didnât ask for and donât want⊠right?
Except thatâs not what the NOP community is or what theyâre about at all. Theyâve carefully picked a name for themselves that makes them sound less dangerous, but itâs nothing more than lipstick on a pig. The NOP community is a paedophile pride community hell-bent on normalising paedophilia, just with a bit of window dressing to make it go down easier.
Of course, the moment I post this, Iâm going to have dozens of paedophiles arguing with me, insisting that by saying such âmeanâ things about them is going to cause paedophiles like them to refuse therapy/treatment for their paraphilia due to shame and fear. And that, my friends, is the linchpin of the NOP community and why they are so damn insidious and terrifyingly dangerous.
They insist that they find the idea of molesting an actual child reprehensible. Thatâs certainly a good start, and if it ended there, Iâd be writing about how important it is to support them in their quest to rid them of their awful paraphilia.
But the problem is, they wield the idea of going to therapy like a cudgel. If you say something like âpaedophilia is badâ theyâll claim youâve hurt their delicate feelings and discourage them from attending therapy.
If you say something somehow really controversial in these circles, like âminors should be protected from paedophilesâ, âyou shouldnât post child porn online, especially not on tumblr with kids officially 13+ but we all know younger kids use it tooâ, and âall child porn is bad, even the simulated shitâ, youâll apparently make them âfeel badâ and discourage them from seeking therapy. Ergo, theyâre more likely to offend and if they doâŠ. itâs on you, buddy!!!!
Basically, if you say or do anything the MAP/NOP communities disagree with, they will crawl out from the very depths of hell.com to accuse you of actively contributing to a child being molested by⊠get this⊠making the âpoor, sweet, innocent paedophiles â again, THE PEOPLE MAKING THESE VERY CLAIMS - too nervous to go to therapyâ.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this rhetoric is not even new. Itâs been recycled in numerous ways (largely by paedophiles) to contest nearly every anti-paedophile measure people have developed. Despite the fact that we live in a RAPE-supportive CULTURE, tumblr paedophiles continue to loudly lament that âour society is anti-paedophileâ, which supposedly makes them too ashamed to seek therapy. Banning child pornography, they say, makes enjoying it taboo, and which makes them too embarrassed to seek help so they will offend, and so on. (As if consuming, distributing, creating, etc child porn isnât already offending. /s)
The issue of child pornography in particular is a rallying point in tumblrâs paedophile community. The NOP community is constantly demanding that child pornography be legalised - as long as it is âethicallyâ produced, ie animated, computer generated, or made using actors who look drastically younger than their actual ages. They claim that this will cut down on âoffensesâ, which is a delicate euphemism for: the NOP community claims that legalising child pornography will cut down on the number of children molested per year.
This is flawed logic of the highest and most harmful order there is.
For one, there is the issue of child âpornographyâ itself - note that porn is in quotations since porn implies consent but minors cannot consent, by law. So already, by its very intentional mislabelling as âpornâ, you can see how deeply insidious and manipulative this community is. If it were legalised, it would only add to the already highly insidious rape culture that deeply permeates western culture. In other words, further normalizing not just the idea that minors can and should âconsensuallyâ participate in porn and sex, but also increasing incentives to produce it and make it increasingly realistic. Unfortunately, this will inevitably lead to more supposedly non-offending paedophiles deciding to molest actual minors (either on or off camera), which I probably donât have to tell you all is already an endemic problem since the very beginning of humanity.
But what exactly is the argument the MAPs & NOPs use to support their call to legalize simulated child sexual abuse?
Tumblrâs pedo community wants us to believe that simulated child porn should be legalized because, âthink of all the children that wonât be molested if the poor dear paedophiles have something to jerk off to!â
But uhhhhâŠ. NEWS FLASH: It doesnât fucking work that way.
Thatâs right - watching, producing, and/or distributing child pornography = harming actual minors, whether it depicts real life minors or not. Itâs true that not Each And Every Single One Of Them that views such media has (or will) molested a minor offline, but a statistic doesnât need to be a perfectly round 100% to show correlation. And if you take the time to respond to this post with âcorrelation doesnât equal causationâ, thanks for reading this far but youâve missed the point. Iâve already explained too that the very existence of such media is harmful to real minors and toxic to our culture as a whole by further normalizing, fetishizing, and promoting the abuse of minors. Itâs also often used to groom youth into abuse and I cannot even express in words how important it is for us all to keep this stuff in mind when interacting with MAPs & NOPs on tumblr.
(Please note that I am speaking of depictions of actual acts of paedophilia and child molestation when I mention fictional characters, NOT shipping discourse. An adult having sexual relations with a child (even if all parties are fictional) is paedophilia. Adults viewing sexually explicit material of minors (even fictional ones) is paedophilia, though shipping two peers together itself is not a paedophilic ship. Shipping two adult characters both over the age of 18, but with an age gap between them, is not paedophilia. Calling every ship you donât like âpaedophiliaâ and those who ship unpopular pairings âpaedophilesâ is contributing to a severe case of warning fatigue, which is only helping the MAP and NOP communities thrive. But thatâs a rant for another day.)
There is a treatment for paedophilia, itâs a genuine mental illness that research suggests can be overcome. There hasnât been as much research into it as perhaps there ought to be, but this much is certain. You will not see a single piece of empirically sound literature supporting the ludicrous idea that watching simulated child abuse will help paedophiles not offend. Thatâs probably because itâs not a coping mechanism at all; itâs actual offending thatâs very harmful and just plain NOT. OKAY.
Instead, the first step (which should be clear but seemingly isnât) is also perhaps the easiest: GET THE HELL AWAY FROM MINORS, both on and offline. The next step is to stop thinking about them. Your subconscious mind is a bit like a dog - give it treats when it does what you want, and spray it with water when it misbehaves. When you jerk off, you give yourself the most positive reinforcement available to someone with a libido: An orgasm. When you jerk off to child porn, youâre physically affirming to your body that thinking about molesting kids is a good thing. I hope I donât need to explain why this is bad.
This also illustrates a great big huge glaring error in the âNOPs want paedophiles to be able to access therapyâ narrative. Namely, the part where, obviously none of them are in therapy. If they were in therapy for their paraphilia theyâd probably already know that they shouldnât be jerking off to the thought of minors. Theyâd also know they shouldnât be posting on the internet about how proud they are to identify as a paedophile and comparing it to being LGBT+. (again, further normalizing and even condoning it all!)
(As an aside - Us LGBT+ folks have been hunted for DECADES under the accusation that we are paedophiles, so fuck you very much for keeping that nasty âtraditionâ alive.)
Despite it being complete hogwash, I suppose the comparison to the LGBT+ is an easy one for pedos to draw. There are many posts in the #pedophilepositivity tag that starts relatively well with something along the lines of, âimagine that society told you it was wrong to love the person you loveâŠâ but then is followed by something completely nonsensical like, âpaedophilia is an orientation just like any LGBT+ orientation so if you wouldnât discriminate against a gay person, donât discriminate against a paedophileâ.
Now, let me give you a detailed breakdown of why this is horrific nonsense.
Paedophilia is not an orientation, it is a paraphilia. Paedophiles are not âin love withâ their victims, they simply want to abuse them and get off. And even if they were âin loveâ with their victims, that doesnât excuse the harm theyâre causing. Nothing they can say excuses them for this harm. Not a goddamn thing.
Meanwhile, in an attempt to dodge this reality, the NOP community begs people to imagine, âWhat if, like us, YOU woke up one day attracted to minors? Wouldnât you ALSO want to be able to somehow satiate that craving without actually touching a real life minor? Wouldnât you behave exactly as we have? Wonât you please help us, just in case itâs one day YOU in this very same boat?â
Well, to those assholes I say: No. Fucking. Way.
If it was me, if I woke up tomorrow attracted to kids, hereâs what Iâd do:
First thing Iâd do is call a therapist. If I didnât have one, Iâd get one. If I couldnât afford one, Iâd hit the internet looking for free or reduced cost mental health services. Iâd do whatever it took to get help, getting as far away from minors and their depictions as I could.
If my job involved minors, Iâd quit. Period. Even if it meant I might miss a bill, even if it meant going hungry, Iâd quit and start looking for a job that would guarantee I wouldnât be around kids anymore.
Iâd also tell any friends and family that under no circumstances could I be exposed to children. We couldnât go to places where children would be likely to be, and if a child were to come to where we were, Iâd need to leave immediately.
Iâd also ensure that I couldnât have kids unexpectedly. If I had a child already, but one day magically woke up attracted to minors, Iâd send any currently in my charge away to live with relatives instead. No visits until my therapist cleared it, and no unsupervised visits ever.
Iâd also make my social media profiles private and severely cut down on my internet presence. Basically, Iâd do everything in my power to make sure I never encountered minors on the internet (or meatspace) ever again.
Would it hurt? Sure. Would it be hard as hell? Absolutely. But my priority would have to be protecting minors, even from myself. Period.
Hereâs what I would NOT do (that NOPs do all the time):
Proudly join a community of people who think itâs a good thing to be a paedophile.
Try to convince people that paedophilia is normal, acceptable, LGBT+, or even just ânot that badâ.
Proudly describe myself as a paedophile. (Iâd instead lament those attractions and do my best to rid myself of them.)
Lobby for legalising child pornography.
Insist that itâs actually âjustâ porn and not evidence of a crime, and an actual crime itself.
Flirt with minors on the internet.
Talk to minors on the internet.
Talk to or interact with minors. At all.
Post on the internet about how sexy I find specific children I have encountered and how much Iâd love to molest them.
Joke about molesting children.
Threaten to molest a child if someone hurt my feelings.
Basically, Iâd be a decent person.
People who proudly take on the label âpaedophileâ and do their best to make pedophilia seem normal and âokâ, are not interested in seeking therapy and beating back their paraphilia. Such people are instead only interested in getting access to minors and âpaedo-friendlyâ media.
If youâve read up to here, I commend you. If youâve scrolled down to the end looking for a tl;dr, let me leave you with one final thought:
If the statement âchildren must be kept safe from paedophilesâ makes you feel personally attacked, you deserve to be locked up - far far away from any and all minors - until the end of time.
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