Omg the fact that you used my ask to show people your opinions on the big 3 paras is like weirdly a big honour to me. TYSM! You’re really kind and your reply was exactly what I needed to hear right now.
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yeah of course! we've always been pro-para (definitional note for the unaware/uninformed/misinformed: supportive of paraphiles/people with paraphilias; not supporting any harm from acting on nonconsensual paraphilias) and we've tried our best to reflect it--at least implicitly--on our blog(s). if i recall correctly, one of our first posts on here actually mentioned paraphiles who selfship to deal with their paraphilia. it was jumbled in with a bunch of other stuff, but it was there (and at the time, having just started our blog, we were vaguely scared of harassment from the wider selfshipping community because of it lol).
i think we've kind of drawn away from that since those first few posts, mostly just so we had more people to talk to and interact with without being scared of like... a callout post or whatever, and we kind of regret doing that since it meant repressing our own paraphilias for a long time (or, at the very least, refusing to address them as paraphilias instead of kinks/fetishes/things we "find interesting"). we're actually very glad you sent that ask since it pushed us to clarify our views and sorta just... put our foot down on the matter and all.
we do wish we'd mentioned/clarified a couple things in our original response, namely (A) not all paraphilias are harmful when acted upon (i mean plushophilia is the obvious one to point out), and (B) what i meant by "treatment" is not what most people seem to mean by "treatment"; that is, by "treatment", most people mean "make them no longer a paraphile", while i mean "make them feel safe and unashamed with their paraphilia and give them outlets to satisfy urges without hurting people" but. yknow.
