#i hope you find safety and peace and freedom from ppl who try to shame you <3

[kienansidhe]

i really appreciate your breakdown of lolisho and why it doesn't equate to actual pedophilia. being a survivor on the internet right now is such a terrible and harmful place because unless you have a savory coping mechanism you're essentially lumped into the same group as those who have abused you

youre super welcome, my lifes goal is to make sure as few children as humanly possible go thru the same things i and my abuser did and also to give us survivors space to breathe and heal.

gentle reminder tho that its also important to distinguish between pedophilia (the attraction) and child rape (the action). most child rapists are not pedophiles, kids are simply the the easiest targets in their immediate vicinity. rape is about power and opportunity, not attraction. persecuting nonoffending pedophiles only makes it harder for them to access help and makes them (many of them minors themselves!) more vulnerable to grooming and lovebombing from actual predators when no one else will treat them like human beings. we should be stigmatizing rape, not attractions that no one can control.