I'm actually like 1000 percent at my limit with anti-intellectual moral panic pearl clutching on social media
From a genuine place of educating you, putting aside my rage at having these kinds of accusations thrown at me in the current political environment:
Paraphilias do not mean pedophile or zoophile. Pedophilia and zoophilia ARE paraphilias, but paraphilia refers to very specifically the clinical terms for various "deviant" sexual interests, including exhibitionism. They are diagnoses you get when a kink/fetish begins to:
- Be dangerous for others (yes, like csa or bestiality, but also like flashers in the park or peeping toms)
- Causes immense distress/shame to the client (often crossdressing or sadomasochism)
It covers a range of things that are essentially, medically, fetishes that are interfering with the clients' wellbeing/safety to themselves or others.
Plenty of paraphilias also come in regular, non-harmful fetish form, like consensual exhibitionism, crossdressing (drag, for example), regular old BDSM, and WANTING TO FUCK FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
You notice any overlaps there? Panic about fictional attraction? Panic about crossdressing? Panic about BDSM? WOW IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT'S CLASSIC ANTI-KINK/ANTI-FETISH FASCIST BULLSHIT. It's all just repackaged typical sex negativity under the guise of, AS ALWAYS, conflating sex with sexually abusing children and animals. What did they say about gay marriage? That it would lead to child marriage or bestiality next? What do SWERFs say about BDSM? That it upholds the patriarchy?
Equating something with pedophilia when it isn't?
IT'S. FASCISM. KAREN.
Also. Also the fkin nerve. I am aiming to get a therapist's license to practice forensic psych. Which does indeed mean working w sex offenders or people worried abt becoming sex offenders. No I am not going to scream for their death online, I am trying to be a fcking professional.
"he seems pro-pedo" because I talk about the medical and scientific research surrounding the topic? Because I don't get vitriolic enough? please study the fundamental tenets of psychotherapy and come back to me when you've read about non-judgmental environments. Go see what Carl Rogers had to say about unconditional positive regard and accurate empathic understanding. Do you want me to link you? Do you want a rundown of counseling 101? I can do that. I am happy to do that.
I'm so fucking tired.