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Essay:The Zionists Are Our Enemies

2023-12-12T11:43:59Z

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This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of [[PCMA]].
The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section [[#Files]] below.

== Content ==
From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA):

::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the world. We understand that any time anything of note happens there is considerable pressure to take a stance on a particular issue, to side for, or, against the new “current thing.” It is our perspective that this type of pressure to follow the politics of the moment and to tail MAP perspectives onto this or that broadly anti-MAP political faction has been a factor keeping MAPs distracted and pacified in the struggle against Antis. We deviate here from this general stance regarding the need for the MAP movement to be self-determining and independent for reasons that we hope to make clear. Let it be said, that at this moment, this does not change our general commitment to freedom of expression, even for stances that the mod team finds repugnant, such as full-throated support for Israel's current war. Nor do we see a need to alter this stance for the foreseeable future given the EXTREME unpopularity and/or indifference towards Zionism that we have seen both within PCMA and childlove.space.

::First, it should be said that verbal statements made by Israel's leadership and documents released by its government have amount to a shockingly open and public confession of premeditated ethnic cleansing of the Gaza territory. On November 12th, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter proclaimed “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.” The term Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from the British mandate territory by Zionist settlers during the foundation of Israel. Dichter, as if steelmanning his statement against the human capacity to incline towards denial or disbelief in the face of moral horror returned to a menacing repetition of the theme, “Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it'll end.” Dichter, a former director of Israel's FBI-equivalent known as Shin Bet, would go on to admit to genocidal intent on the part of the Israeli by stating “I don't know how it'll end up happening” when asked if Gazans would be allowed to return to their homes. It should be noted that all scholars of the Holocaust acknowledge that the decision to annihilate European Jews and the planning to carry it out was kept top secret by the Nazi state. No statement from Hitler, public or otherwise, exists where he admits his intention to exterminate the Jewish people entirely. At this late date, we can say with firm confidence that such a statement will never be found; one also struggles with great difficulty to find openly genocidal public statements from other top Nazis. Suffice it to say, that the situation in the present Israel-Palestine war is much worse than the mainstream media has led Western publics to believe. Since this is the position openly staked out by Israeli ministers in this early phase of the war it hardly requires suspension of disbelief to think that behind closed doors there is talk of genocide in the strictest sense of the term, e.g. extermination of a population through mass killing. Proof that this may actually be the case was furnished after Netanyahu was forced to suspend an ultra-right wing minister after he openly pronounced that dropping one of Israel's allegedly non-existent nuclear weapons on Gaza was an option.

::As casualties mount among the IDF during its current campaign to lay siege and occupy the Gaza territory it seems likely that the current war, which is already turning Gaza city into a charnel house where 11,000 people among them 4,000 children have been slaughtered, will radicalize into a more violent war with targeted mass killing of civilians. Already, Israel has killed more civilians in a month than Putin's Russia has killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine, a much more populous country that had also undergone prewar militarization to a greater extent. As of this writing, Israel has bombed at least seven hospitals, two of them children's hospitals, and three refugee camps. The notion that Israel is not targeting civilians and is attempting to avoid civilian deaths strains credibility. A particularly heinous incident is the admission by an IDF spokesman in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp that killed more than one hundred civilians was done to kill one Hamas leader with full knowledge that civilians were present. After this open admission of a war crime, the same camp would be bombed by Israeli forces two more times.

::The present Israeli-Gaza war has been the subject of the vastest campaign of systemic censorship, blatant propaganda, mainstream media lies and misinformation in living memory. Indeed, there are fewer divisions among the Western elite when it comes to the present Israel-Palestine War than there were regarding the US invasion of Iraq when major US allies like France and Germany declined to participate. The Trotskyist World Socialist Website freely admits the developed world is more or less united: “Israel, with the support of all the imperialist powers in the US-NATO axis, is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.” We can rest assured that this publication, which follows the teachings of the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and regularly calls for Open Borders while criticizing right wing anti-semites, are probably not secret adherents to the White Nationalist theory of a Zionist Occupied Government (known as ZOG) existing either in the US or in the wider Western world. But terminology aside, the effect is the same, as the West is increasingly flirting with World War III and potential economic collapse in the event of a new Arab oil embargo. Futures traders are watching the conflict nervously fearing that it may expand into a regional war – it is not out of the question that a fear-based speculative run on oil may result in a form of economic suicide as advanced economies crumble in the face of high energy prices. Israel is not an asset to the US or the EU even from the perspective of their own strategic resource-based interests, but a massive strategic liability. And real discussion of that point is not only systemically kept out of the media, but gate-kept out of even pro-Palestinian leftist spaces by politically-correct leftists.

::The Zionists have been the foremost practitioners of Censorship and Cancel Culture since the end of World War II, advocating for both state and non-state backed censorship, shunning, guilt-by-association and McCarthyist economic retaliation for speech, state-funded propaganda on their behalf, and much more. Wherever they have gotten the upper-hand it has always meant more censorship and not less. We need not reach for any “ancient history” here, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly boasted of this fact on Twitter (now X) on February 12th 2020: “In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.” In other words, those who choose not to do business with Israel or who call for the economic boycott of Israel can be punished for that decision and that speech in 37 US states; meanwhile, 72% of Americans oppose laws punishing citizens and companies for boycotting Israel.

::While multiple federal courts have ruled that such laws are a violation of Free Speech, the present Republican dominated Supreme Court has simply declined to review challenges to their constitutionality. Lest anyone fall prey to the conservative temptation to view these laws as merely “cancelling the cancelers,” it should be noted that we are in midst of perhaps the biggest wave of McCarthyist “cancellation” since the McCarthy hearings. Americans, particularly academics and students, are losing their jobs and job offers over their stance on Israel, as well as their right to peaceful protest and assembly. The Zionists and their allies make no pretense about the fact that their speech stance is based on raw power: critics of Israel and Jews should be censored and fired, prosecuted too, if possible, while promoting laws that would prevent anyone else from doing likewise against them. What makes the current Culture Wars all the more into a sick joke is the fact that people have been fired for mostly benign comments on race, gender, and sexuality, whereas no supporter of Zionism has been fired for advocating genocide against the Palestinians or supporting the present war. The far-Right and anti-semitic National Justice Party issued a penetrating remark illustrating the hollowness of present discourse on wokeness and cancel culture: “The conservative theory that America has been taken hostage by the moral and protest power of [the] academic left has been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Israel students using their tried and true protest playbook — sit-ins, pushing cops around, intimidation of opponents — are now facing mass arrests all over the country, revealing that America’s leaders were only pretending to be afraid of them.”

::In Europe, the state of the freedom of expression and protest has become increasingly dire. The worst offender has been France, where President Macron banned pro-Palestinian protests almost immediately after the outbreak of the conflict. A former Rothschild banker, Macron is widely hated and derided in France as the president of the rich, and it is no surprise that the French people did not heed his prohibitions which has led the French senate to propose a bill that would make an insult against the state of Israel a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of €75,000 Euros. But, the ruling class of France is not alone, in Britain, the home secretary Suella Braverman argued that flying the Palestinian flag or chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Historically-speaking, Britain has long interpreted its unwritten constitution in a manner that puts its stance on freedom speech closer to American standards than to continental European ones, it is clear that for the ruling class of Britain this relative leniency is more and more a problem to be fixed through creative legal reinterpretation and raw police action. The German government under social democrat Olaf Schulz, widely considered the worst German prime minister in post-WWII history, has been equally slavish, banning most pro-Palestinian protests, dissolving a group that expressed support for Hamas by judicial fiat, and seeking to deport potentially pro-Palestinian demographics from Germany en masse. It appears that the European elite cares more for the state of Israel than it does about Democracy, Free Speech, or even their own countries! Citizens and residents of Britain, France, and Germany appear to be free to denounce their countries as racist colonialist oppressors with no redeeming qualities that should be burned to the ground but when it comes to Israel? Now that's a different story!

::This moment is not just the opportunity to stand up for the values of free speech and expression, that we believe in but also an opportunity to payback our enemies for their persecution of MAPs. An avowed enemy of MAPs, Republican Florida governor and Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis pushed through legislation that criminalized criticism of Israel. Sardonically known as “Zion Ron” in far-right circles, DeSantis is a massive booster of the state of Israel, going so far as to sign a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel while being present physically in Israel. The increasingly legally embattled and likely GOP candidate for president Donald Trump (also known as “Zion Don”), is another fanatical Zionist who ended decades of US policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in place of Tel Aviv. Lest we forget, it was Donald Trump and the Qanon cult he boosted, that set off a firestorm of anti-MAP hatred from the Right that has contributed to rising hateful attitudes towards MAPs and intolerance of difference of opinion on MAPs among the youth.

::Joe Biden's cynical backing for the current Gaza slaughter has earned him a new nickname – “Genocide Joe” – quite a change in tone from the clownish and quasi-endearing “Brandon.” There is no doubt that Joe Biden leads a party that are avowed enemies of MAPs. In fact, one new development in the legal persecution of minor attracted people is a bill introduced by the Democrats, passed with bipartisan support, that ends the statute of limitations at the national scale for real and perceived victims of CSA. In other words, real or perceived MAPs will be asked to recall the details of alleged events that in some states have passed their criminal statute of limitations decades ago, and if they are poor they will have no right to representation. Those that can pay out of pocket, will likely deplete their meagre savings or waste their near career end earnings, and will find that winning a case does not stave off going broke, since the US legal system does not mandate that the plaintiff pay any legal fees if they lose a case. Similar Democrat legislation along these lines, includes the Democratic governor of Louisiana signing a bill mandating similar penalties for possession of AI-generated child pornography as possession of actual child pornography involving real children. The Democrats in Florida's state senate also voted for Ron DeSantis's Death Penalty bill.

::In these dark times, what Biden represents to us MAPs may be more potent than anything he has done to us so far. He represents the 1980s Reagan Democrat who joined with Republican colleagues throughout the 80s and 90s, in a massive bipartisan effort that took minor attracted people from being comparatively tolerated, to being possibly the most stigmatized and criminalized sexual minority that has ever existed within the history of Modern Western Democracies. His efforts to reinvigorate this stale neoliberal 80s era consensus, a consensus against us, has lead him down the path of becoming an active accomplice and conspirator in the greatest foreign policy crime in this century. Its clear that Genocide Joe must go.

::MAPs and all caring people should note that Gaza's population is extremely young, with 44% of the population being 14 or below. The planned expulsion and even extermination of at least a million children should provoke outrage and hatred in every child lover. We MAPs have no ties to the system, we are effectively locked out of it, and we are not allowed to post our opinions on any large long established social network. Already, the Biden administration is discussing deploying US soldiers alongside IDF soldiers in the Gaza invasion. Already they have deployed to carrier groups back up Israel and deter any outside interference from Iran or other regional military actors in Israel's planned ethnic cleansing. The risk that MAPs residing in Western countries will be propagandized or drafted to fight in this escalating conflict is not small, particularly if Israel begins to lose the war or if it becomes a touchstone for a wider regional conflict.

::MAPs should refuse to fight wars for a system that hates them, especially wars on behalf of Israel. MAPs should speak out against child killers, including the child killers of the Netanyahu government driven by a heady mix of fundamentalist religion and ultra-nationalism, who are backed to the hilt by world capitalism. At least a few members of our mod team are atheists and reject religion in its entirety, including Judaism, which provides a theological justification for the Israeli state as a Jewish supremacist entity. We do not dictate the opinions that even our mod team must hold when it comes to faith, economics, broader politics, racial issues etc. That the decision to release a statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict met unanimous assent from our moderation team is a solid indication of where MAPs stand.

Our recommendations:

# Return freedom of speech to the American and European peoples – this conflict has proven that this right is too important to be left in the hands of the “enlightened” censors
# An immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Gaza blockade
# Institute an immediate two-state solution recognizing the West Bank and the Gaza strip as sovereign Palestinian territory
# Indict Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Olaf Scholz alongside Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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2023-12-12T10:12:52Z

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This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of [[PCMA]].
The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section [[#Files]] below.

== Content ==
From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA):

::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the world. We understand that any time anything of note happens there is considerable pressure to take a stance on a particular issue, to side for, or, against the new “current thing.” It is our perspective that this type of pressure to follow the politics of the moment and to tail MAP perspectives onto this or that broadly anti-MAP political faction has been a factor keeping MAPs distracted and pacified in the struggle against Antis. We deviate here from this general stance regarding the need for the MAP movement to be self-determining and independent for reasons that we hope to make clear. Let it be said, that at this moment, this does not change our general commitment to freedom of expression, even for stances that the mod team finds repugnant, such as full-throated support for Israel's current war. Nor do we see a need to alter this stance for the foreseeable future given the EXTREME unpopularity and/or indifference towards Zionism that we have seen both within PCMA and childlove.space.

::First, it should be said that verbal statements made by Israel's leadership and documents released by its government have amount to a shockingly open and public confession of premeditated ethnic cleansing of the Gaza territory. On November 12th, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter proclaimed “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.” The term Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from the British mandate territory by Zionist settlers during the foundation of Israel. Dichter, as if steelmanning his statement against the human capacity to incline towards denial or disbelief in the face of moral horror returned to a menacing repetition of the theme, “Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it'll end.” Dichter, a former director of Israel's FBI-equivalent known as Shin Bet, would go on to admit to genocidal intent on the part of the Israeli by stating “I don't know how it'll end up happening” when asked if Gazans would be allowed to return to their homes. It should be noted that all scholars of the Holocaust acknowledge that the decision to annihilate European Jews and the planning to carry it out was kept top secret by the Nazi state. No statement from Hitler, public or otherwise, exists where he admits his intention to exterminate the Jewish people entirely. At this late date, we can say with firm confidence that such a statement will never be found; one also struggles with great difficulty to find openly genocidal public statements from other top Nazis. Suffice it to say, that the situation in the present Israel-Palestine war is much worse than the mainstream media has led Western publics to believe. Since this is the position openly staked out by Israeli ministers in this early phase of the war it hardly requires suspension of disbelief to think that behind closed doors there is talk of genocide in the strictest sense of the term, e.g. extermination of a population through mass killing. Proof that this may actually be the case was furnished after Netanyahu was forced to suspend an ultra-right wing minister after he openly pronounced that dropping one of Israel's allegedly non-existent nuclear weapons on Gaza was an option.

::As casualties mount among the IDF during its current campaign to lay siege and occupy the Gaza territory it seems likely that the current war, which is already turning Gaza city into a charnel house where 11,000 people among them 4,000 children have been slaughtered, will radicalize into a more violent war with targeted mass killing of civilians. Already, Israel has killed more civilians in a month than Putin's Russia has killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine, a much more populous country that had also undergone prewar militarization to a greater extent. As of this writing, Israel has bombed at least seven hospitals, two of them children's hospitals, and three refugee camps. The notion that Israel is not targeting civilians and is attempting to avoid civilian deaths strains credibility. A particularly heinous incident is the admission by an IDF spokesman in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp that killed more than one hundred civilians was done to kill one Hamas leader with full knowledge that civilians were present. After this open admission of a war crime, the same camp would be bombed by Israeli forces two more times.

::The present Israeli-Gaza war has been the subject of the vastest campaign of systemic censorship, blatant propaganda, mainstream media lies and misinformation in living memory. Indeed, there are fewer divisions among the Western elite when it comes to the present Israel-Palestine War than there were regarding the US invasion of Iraq when major US allies like France and Germany declined to participate. The Trotskyist World Socialist Website freely admits the developed world is more or less united: “Israel, with the support of all the imperialist powers in the US-NATO axis, is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.” We can rest assured that this publication, which follows the teachings of the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and regularly calls for Open Borders while criticizing right wing anti-semites, are probably not secret adherents to the White Nationalist theory of a Zionist Occupied Government (known as ZOG) existing either in the US or in the wider Western world. But terminology aside, the effect is the same, as the West is increasingly flirting with World War III and potential economic collapse in the event of a new Arab oil embargo. Futures traders are watching the conflict nervously fearing that it may expand into a regional war – it is not out of the question that a fear-based speculative run on oil may result in a form of economic suicide as advanced economies crumble in the face of high energy prices. Israel is not an asset to the US or the EU even from the perspective of their own strategic resource-based interests, but a massive strategic liability. And real discussion of that point is not only systemically kept out of the media, but gate-kept out of even pro-Palestinian leftist spaces by politically-correct leftists.

::The Zionists have been the foremost practitioners of Censorship and Cancel Culture since the end of World War II, advocating for both state and non-state backed censorship, shunning, guilt-by-association and McCarthyist economic retaliation for speech, state-funded propaganda on their behalf, and much more. Wherever they have gotten the upper-hand it has always meant more censorship and not less. We need not reach for any “ancient history” here, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly boasted of this fact on Twitter (now X) on February 12th 2020: “In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.” In other words, those who choose not to do business with Israel or who call for the economic boycott of Israel can be punished for that decision and that speech in 37 US states; meanwhile, 72% of Americans oppose laws punishing citizens and companies for boycotting Israel.

::While multiple federal courts have ruled that such laws are a violation of Free Speech, the present Republican dominated Supreme Court has simply declined to review challenges to their constitutionality. Lest anyone fall prey to the conservative temptation to view these laws as merely “cancelling the cancelers,” it should be noted that we are in midst of perhaps the biggest wave of McCarthyist “cancellation” since the McCarthy hearings. Americans, particularly academics and students, are losing their jobs and job offers over their stance on Israel, as well as their right to peaceful protest and assembly. The Zionists and their allies make no pretense about the fact that their speech stance is based on raw power: critics of Israel and Jews should be censored and fired, prosecuted too, if possible, while promoting laws that would prevent anyone else from doing likewise against them. What makes the current Culture Wars all the more into a sick joke is the fact that people have been fired for mostly benign comments on race, gender, and sexuality, whereas no supporter of Zionism has been fired for advocating genocide against the Palestinians or supporting the present war. The far-Right and anti-semitic National Justice Party issued a penetrating remark illustrating the hollowness of present discourse on wokeness and cancel culture: “The conservative theory that America has been taken hostage by the moral and protest power of [the] academic left has been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Israel students using their tried and true protest playbook — sit-ins, pushing cops around, intimidation of opponents — are now facing mass arrests all over the country, revealing that America’s leaders were only pretending to be afraid of them.”

::In Europe, the state of the freedom of expression and protest has become increasingly dire. The worst offender has been France, where President Macron banned pro-Palestinian protests almost immediately after the outbreak of the conflict. A former Rothschild banker, Macron is widely hated and derided in France as the president of the rich, and it is no surprise that the French people did not heed his prohibitions which has led the French senate to propose a bill that would make an insult against the state of Israel a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of €75,000 Euros. But, the ruling class of France is not alone, in Britain, the home secretary Suella Braverman argued that flying the Palestinian flag or chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Historically-speaking, Britain has long interpreted its unwritten constitution in a manner that puts its stance on freedom speech closer to American standards than to continental European ones, it is clear that for the ruling class of Britain this relative leniency is more and more a problem to be fixed through creative legal reinterpretation and raw police action. The German government under social democrat Olaf Schulz, widely considered the worst German prime minister in post-WWII history, has been equally slavish, banning most pro-Palestinian protests, dissolving a group that expressed support for Hamas by judicial fiat, and seeking to deport potentially pro-Palestinian demographics from Germany en masse. It appears that the European elite cares more for the state of Israel than it does about Democracy, Free Speech, or even their own countries! Citizens and residents of Britain, France, and Germany appear to be free to denounce their countries as racist colonialist oppressors with no redeeming qualities that should be burned to the ground but when it comes to Israel? Now that's a different story!

::This moment is not just the opportunity to stand up for the values of free speech and expression, that we believe in but also an opportunity to payback our enemies for their persecution of MAPs. An avowed enemy of MAPs, Republican Florida governor and Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis pushed through legislation that criminalized criticism of Israel. Sardonically known as “Zion Ron” in far-right circles, DeSantis is a massive booster of the state of Israel, going so far as to sign a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel while being present physically in Israel. The increasingly legally embattled and likely GOP candidate for president Donald Trump (also known as “Zion Don”), is another fanatical Zionist who ended decades of US policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in place of Tel Aviv. Lest we forget, it was Donald Trump and the Qanon cult he boosted, that set off a firestorm of anti-MAP hatred from the Right that has contributed to rising hateful attitudes towards MAPs and intolerance of difference of opinion on MAPs among the youth.

::Joe Biden's cynical backing for the current Gaza slaughter has earned him a new nickname – “Genocide Joe” – quite a change in tone from the clownish and quasi-endearing “Brandon.” There is no doubt that Joe Biden leads a party that are avowed enemies of MAPs. In fact, one new development in the legal persecution of minor attracted people is a bill introduced by the Democrats, passed with bipartisan support, that ends the statute of limitations at the national scale for real and perceived victims of CSA. In other words, real or perceived MAPs will be asked to recall the details of alleged events that in some states have passed their criminal statute of limitations decades ago, and if they are poor they will have no right to representation. Those that can pay out of pocket, will likely deplete their meagre savings or waste their near career end earnings, and will find that winning a case does not stave off going broke, since the US legal system does not mandate that the plaintiff pay any legal fees if they lose a case. Similar Democrat legislation along these lines, includes the Democratic governor of Louisiana signing a bill mandating similar penalties for possession of AI-generated child pornography as possession of actual child pornography involving real children. The Democrats in Florida's state senate also voted for Ron DeSantis's Death Penalty bill.

::In these dark times, what Biden represents to us MAPs may be more potent than anything he has done to us so far. He represents the 1980s Reagan Democrat who joined with Republican colleagues throughout the 80s and 90s, in a massive bipartisan effort that took minor attracted people from being comparatively tolerated, to being possibly the most stigmatized and criminalized sexual minority that has ever existed within the history of Modern Western Democracies. His efforts to reinvigorate this stale neoliberal 80s era consensus, a consensus against us, has lead him down the path of becoming an active accomplice and conspirator in the greatest foreign policy crime in this century. Its clear that Genocide Joe must go.

::MAPs and all caring people should note that Gaza's population is extremely young, with 44% of the population being 14 or below. The planned expulsion and even extermination of at least a million children should provoke outrage and hatred in every child lover. We MAPs have no ties to the system, we are effectively locked out of it, and we are not allowed to post our opinions on any large long established social network. Already, the Biden administration is discussing deploying US soldiers alongside IDF soldiers in the Gaza invasion. Already they have deployed to carrier groups back up Israel and deter any outside interference from Iran or other regional military actors in Israel's planned ethnic cleansing. The risk that MAPs residing in Western countries will be propagandized or drafted to fight in this escalating conflict is not small, particularly if Israel begins to lose the war or if it becomes a touchstone for a wider regional conflict.

::MAPs should refuse to fight wars for a system that hates them, especially wars on behalf of Israel. MAPs should speak out against child killers, including the child killers of the Netanyahu government driven by a heady mix of fundamentalist religion and ultra-nationalism, who are backed to the hilt by world capitalism. At least a few members of our mod team are atheists and reject religion in its entirety, including Judaism, which provides a theological justification for the Israeli state as a Jewish supremacist entity. We do not dictate the opinions that even our mod team must hold when it comes to faith, economics, broader politics, racial issues etc. That the decision to release a statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict met unanimous assent from our moderation team is a solid indication of where MAPs stand.

Our recommendations:

# Return freedom of speech to the American and European peoples – this conflict has proven that this right is too important to be left in the hands of the “enlightened” censors
# An immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Gaza blockade
# Institute an immediate two-state solution recognizing the West Bank and the Gaza strip as sovereign Palestinian territory
# Indict Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Olaf Scholz alongside Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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2023-12-12T10:03:31Z

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This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of [[PCMA]].
The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section [[#Files]] below.

== Content ==
From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA) and Childlove.su (cl.su):

::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the world. We understand that any time anything of note happens there is considerable pressure to take a stance on a particular issue, to side for, or, against the new “current thing.” It is our perspective that this type of pressure to follow the politics of the moment and to tail MAP perspectives onto this or that broadly anti-MAP political faction has been a factor keeping MAPs distracted and pacified in the struggle against Antis. We deviate here from this general stance regarding the need for the MAP movement to be self-determining and independent for reasons that we hope to make clear. Let it be said, that at this moment, this does not change our general commitment to freedom of expression, even for stances that the mod team finds repugnant, such as full-throated support for Israel's current war. Nor do we see a need to alter this stance for the foreseeable future given the EXTREME unpopularity and/or indifference towards Zionism that we have seen both within PCMA and childlove.su.

::First, it should be said that verbal statements made by Israel's leadership and documents released by its government have amount to a shockingly open and public confession of premeditated ethnic cleansing of the Gaza territory. On November 12th, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter proclaimed “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.” The term Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from the British mandate territory by Zionist settlers during the foundation of Israel. Dichter, as if steelmanning his statement against the human capacity to incline towards denial or disbelief in the face of moral horror returned to a menacing repetition of the theme, “Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it'll end.” Dichter, a former director of Israel's FBI-equivalent known as Shin Bet, would go on to admit to genocidal intent on the part of the Israeli by stating “I don't know how it'll end up happening” when asked if Gazans would be allowed to return to their homes. It should be noted that all scholars of the Holocaust acknowledge that the decision to annihilate European Jews and the planning to carry it out was kept top secret by the Nazi state. No statement from Hitler, public or otherwise, exists where he admits his intention to exterminate the Jewish people entirely. At this late date, we can say with firm confidence that such a statement will never be found; one also struggles with great difficulty to find openly genocidal public statements from other top Nazis. Suffice it to say, that the situation in the present Israel-Palestine war is much worse than the mainstream media has led Western publics to believe. Since this is the position openly staked out by Israeli ministers in this early phase of the war it hardly requires suspension of disbelief to think that behind closed doors there is talk of genocide in the strictest sense of the term, e.g. extermination of a population through mass killing. Proof that this may actually be the case was furnished after Netanyahu was forced to suspend an ultra-right wing minister after he openly pronounced that dropping one of Israel's allegedly non-existent nuclear weapons on Gaza was an option.

::As casualties mount among the IDF during its current campaign to lay siege and occupy the Gaza territory it seems likely that the current war, which is already turning Gaza city into a charnel house where 11,000 people among them 4,000 children have been slaughtered, will radicalize into a more violent war with targeted mass killing of civilians. Already, Israel has killed more civilians in a month than Putin's Russia has killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine, a much more populous country that had also undergone prewar militarization to a greater extent. As of this writing, Israel has bombed at least seven hospitals, two of them children's hospitals, and three refugee camps. The notion that Israel is not targeting civilians and is attempting to avoid civilian deaths strains credibility. A particularly heinous incident is the admission by an IDF spokesman in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp that killed more than one hundred civilians was done to kill one Hamas leader with full knowledge that civilians were present. After this open admission of a war crime, the same camp would be bombed by Israeli forces two more times.

::The present Israeli-Gaza war has been the subject of the vastest campaign of systemic censorship, blatant propaganda, mainstream media lies and misinformation in living memory. Indeed, there are fewer divisions among the Western elite when it comes to the present Israel-Palestine War than there were regarding the US invasion of Iraq when major US allies like France and Germany declined to participate. The Trotskyist World Socialist Website freely admits the developed world is more or less united: “Israel, with the support of all the imperialist powers in the US-NATO axis, is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.” We can rest assured that this publication, which follows the teachings of the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and regularly calls for Open Borders while criticizing right wing anti-semites, are probably not secret adherents to the White Nationalist theory of a Zionist Occupied Government (known as ZOG) existing either in the US or in the wider Western world. But terminology aside, the effect is the same, as the West is increasingly flirting with World War III and potential economic collapse in the event of a new Arab oil embargo. Futures traders are watching the conflict nervously fearing that it may expand into a regional war – it is not out of the question that a fear-based speculative run on oil may result in a form of economic suicide as advanced economies crumble in the face of high energy prices. Israel is not an asset to the US or the EU even from the perspective of their own strategic resource-based interests, but a massive strategic liability. And real discussion of that point is not only systemically kept out of the media, but gate-kept out of even pro-Palestinian leftist spaces by politically-correct leftists.

::The Zionists have been the foremost practitioners of Censorship and Cancel Culture since the end of World War II, advocating for both state and non-state backed censorship, shunning, guilt-by-association and McCarthyist economic retaliation for speech, state-funded propaganda on their behalf, and much more. Wherever they have gotten the upper-hand it has always meant more censorship and not less. We need not reach for any “ancient history” here, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly boasted of this fact on Twitter (now X) on February 12th 2020: “In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.” In other words, those who choose not to do business with Israel or who call for the economic boycott of Israel can be punished for that decision and that speech in 37 US states; meanwhile, 72% of Americans oppose laws punishing citizens and companies for boycotting Israel.

::While multiple federal courts have ruled that such laws are a violation of Free Speech, the present Republican dominated Supreme Court has simply declined to review challenges to their constitutionality. Lest anyone fall prey to the conservative temptation to view these laws as merely “cancelling the cancelers,” it should be noted that we are in midst of perhaps the biggest wave of McCarthyist “cancellation” since the McCarthy hearings. Americans, particularly academics and students, are losing their jobs and job offers over their stance on Israel, as well as their right to peaceful protest and assembly. The Zionists and their allies make no pretense about the fact that their speech stance is based on raw power: critics of Israel and Jews should be censored and fired, prosecuted too, if possible, while promoting laws that would prevent anyone else from doing likewise against them. What makes the current Culture Wars all the more into a sick joke is the fact that people have been fired for mostly benign comments on race, gender, and sexuality, whereas no supporter of Zionism has been fired for advocating genocide against the Palestinians or supporting the present war. The far-Right and anti-semitic National Justice Party issued a penetrating remark illustrating the hollowness of present discourse on wokeness and cancel culture: “The conservative theory that America has been taken hostage by the moral and protest power of [the] academic left has been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Israel students using their tried and true protest playbook — sit-ins, pushing cops around, intimidation of opponents — are now facing mass arrests all over the country, revealing that America’s leaders were only pretending to be afraid of them.”

::In Europe, the state of the freedom of expression and protest has become increasingly dire. The worst offender has been France, where President Macron banned pro-Palestinian protests almost immediately after the outbreak of the conflict. A former Rothschild banker, Macron is widely hated and derided in France as the president of the rich, and it is no surprise that the French people did not heed his prohibitions which has led the French senate to propose a bill that would make an insult against the state of Israel a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of €75,000 Euros. But, the ruling class of France is not alone, in Britain, the home secretary Suella Braverman argued that flying the Palestinian flag or chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Historically-speaking, Britain has long interpreted its unwritten constitution in a manner that puts its stance on freedom speech closer to American standards than to continental European ones, it is clear that for the ruling class of Britain this relative leniency is more and more a problem to be fixed through creative legal reinterpretation and raw police action. The German government under social democrat Olaf Schulz, widely considered the worst German prime minister in post-WWII history, has been equally slavish, banning most pro-Palestinian protests, dissolving a group that expressed support for Hamas by judicial fiat, and seeking to deport potentially pro-Palestinian demographics from Germany en masse. It appears that the European elite cares more for the state of Israel than it does about Democracy, Free Speech, or even their own countries! Citizens and residents of Britain, France, and Germany appear to be free to denounce their countries as racist colonialist oppressors with no redeeming qualities that should be burned to the ground but when it comes to Israel? Now that's a different story!

::This moment is not just the opportunity to stand up for the values of free speech and expression, that we believe in but also an opportunity to payback our enemies for their persecution of MAPs. An avowed enemy of MAPs, Republican Florida governor and Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis pushed through legislation that criminalized criticism of Israel. Sardonically known as “Zion Ron” in far-right circles, DeSantis is a massive booster of the state of Israel, going so far as to sign a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel while being present physically in Israel. The increasingly legally embattled and likely GOP candidate for president Donald Trump (also known as “Zion Don”), is another fanatical Zionist who ended decades of US policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in place of Tel Aviv. Lest we forget, it was Donald Trump and the Qanon cult he boosted, that set off a firestorm of anti-MAP hatred from the Right that has contributed to rising hateful attitudes towards MAPs and intolerance of difference of opinion on MAPs among the youth.

::Joe Biden's cynical backing for the current Gaza slaughter has earned him a new nickname – “Genocide Joe” – quite a change in tone from the clownish and quasi-endearing “Brandon.” There is no doubt that Joe Biden leads a party that are avowed enemies of MAPs. In fact, one new development in the legal persecution of minor attracted people is a bill introduced by the Democrats, passed with bipartisan support, that ends the statute of limitations at the national scale for real and perceived victims of CSA. In other words, real or perceived MAPs will be asked to recall the details of alleged events that in some states have passed their criminal statute of limitations decades ago, and if they are poor they will have no right to representation. Those that can pay out of pocket, will likely deplete their meagre savings or waste their near career end earnings, and will find that winning a case does not stave off going broke, since the US legal system does not mandate that the plaintiff pay any legal fees if they lose a case. Similar Democrat legislation along these lines, includes the Democratic governor of Louisiana signing a bill mandating similar penalties for possession of AI-generated child pornography as possession of actual child pornography involving real children. The Democrats in Florida's state senate also voted for Ron DeSantis's Death Penalty bill.

::In these dark times, what Biden represents to us MAPs may be more potent than anything he has done to us so far. He represents the 1980s Reagan Democrat who joined with Republican colleagues throughout the 80s and 90s, in a massive bipartisan effort that took minor attracted people from being comparatively tolerated, to being possibly the most stigmatized and criminalized sexual minority that has ever existed within the history of Modern Western Democracies. His efforts to reinvigorate this stale neoliberal 80s era consensus, a consensus against us, has lead him down the path of becoming an active accomplice and conspirator in the greatest foreign policy crime in this century. Its clear that Genocide Joe must go.

::MAPs and all caring people should note that Gaza's population is extremely young, with 44% of the population being 14 or below. The planned expulsion and even extermination of at least a million children should provoke outrage and hatred in every child lover. We MAPs have no ties to the system, we are effectively locked out of it, and we are not allowed to post our opinions on any large long established social network. Already, the Biden administration is discussing deploying US soldiers alongside IDF soldiers in the Gaza invasion. Already they have deployed to carrier groups back up Israel and deter any outside interference from Iran or other regional military actors in Israel's planned ethnic cleansing. The risk that MAPs residing in Western countries will be propagandized or drafted to fight in this escalating conflict is not small, particularly if Israel begins to lose the war or if it becomes a touchstone for a wider regional conflict.

::MAPs should refuse to fight wars for a system that hates them, especially wars on behalf of Israel. MAPs should speak out against child killers, including the child killers of the Netanyahu government driven by a heady mix of fundamentalist religion and ultra-nationalism, who are backed to the hilt by world capitalism. At least a few members of our mod team are atheists and reject religion in its entirety, including Judaism, which provides a theological justification for the Israeli state as a Jewish supremacist entity. We do not dictate the opinions that even our mod team must hold when it comes to faith, economics, broader politics, racial issues etc. That the decision to release a statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict met unanimous assent from our moderation team is a solid indication of where MAPs stand.

Our recommendations:

# Return freedom of speech to the American and European peoples – this conflict has proven that this right is too important to be left in the hands of the “enlightened” censors
# An immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Gaza blockade
# Institute an immediate two-state solution recognizing the West Bank and the Gaza strip as sovereign Palestinian territory
# Indict Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Olaf Scholz alongside Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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Essay:The Zionists Are Our Enemies

2023-12-11T05:17:12Z

Loli:

This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of [[PCMA]].
The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section [[#Files]] below.

== Content ==
From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA) and Childlove.su (cl.su):

::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the. We understand that any time anything of note happens there is considerable pressure to take a stance on a particular issue, to side for, or, against the new “current thing.” It is our perspective that this type of pressure to follow the politics of the moment and to tail MAP perspectives onto this or that broadly anti-MAP political faction has been a factor keeping MAPs distracted and pacified in the struggle against Antis. We deviate here from this general stance regarding the need for the MAP movement to be self-determining and independent for reasons that we hope to make clear. Let it be said, that at this moment, this does not change our general commitment to freedom of expression, even for stances that the mod team finds repugnant, such as full-throated support for Israel's current war. Nor do we see a need to alter this stance for the foreseeable future given the EXTREME unpopularity and/or indifference towards Zionism that we have seen both within PCMA and childlove.su.

::First, it should be said that verbal statements made by Israel's leadership and documents released by its government have amount to a shockingly open and public confession of premeditated ethnic cleansing of the Gaza territory. On November 12th, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter proclaimed “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.” The term Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from the British mandate territory by Zionist settlers during the foundation of Israel. Dichter, as if steelmanning his statement against the human capacity to incline towards denial or disbelief in the face of moral horror returned to a menacing repetition of the theme, “Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it'll end.” Dichter, a former director of Israel's FBI-equivalent known as Shin Bet, would go on to admit to genocidal intent on the part of the Israeli by stating “I don't know how it'll end up happening” when asked if Gazans would be allowed to return to their homes. It should be noted that all scholars of the Holocaust acknowledge that the decision to annihilate European Jews and the planning to carry it out was kept top secret by the Nazi state. No statement from Hitler, public or otherwise, exists where he admits his intention to exterminate the Jewish people entirely. At this late date, we can say with firm confidence that such a statement will never be found; one also struggles with great difficulty to find openly genocidal public statements from other top Nazis. Suffice it to say, that the situation in the present Israel-Palestine war is much worse than the mainstream media has led Western publics to believe. Since this is the position openly staked out by Israeli ministers in this early phase of the war it hardly requires suspension of disbelief to think that behind closed doors there is talk of genocide in the strictest sense of the term, e.g. extermination of a population through mass killing. Proof that this may actually be the case was furnished after Netanyahu was forced to suspend an ultra-right wing minister after he openly pronounced that dropping one of Israel's allegedly non-existent nuclear weapons on Gaza was an option.

::As casualties mount among the IDF during its current campaign to lay siege and occupy the Gaza territory it seems likely that the current war, which is already turning Gaza city into a charnel house where 11,000 people among them 4,000 children have been slaughtered, will radicalize into a more violent war with targeted mass killing of civilians. Already, Israel has killed more civilians in a month than Putin's Russia has killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine, a much more populous country that had also undergone prewar militarization to a greater extent. As of this writing, Israel has bombed at least seven hospitals, two of them children's hospitals, and three refugee camps. The notion that Israel is not targeting civilians and is attempting to avoid civilian deaths strains credibility. A particularly heinous incident is the admission by an IDF spokesman in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp that killed more than one hundred civilians was done to kill one Hamas leader with full knowledge that civilians were present. After this open admission of a war crime, the same camp would be bombed by Israeli forces two more times.

::The present Israeli-Gaza war has been the subject of the vastest campaign of systemic censorship, blatant propaganda, mainstream media lies and misinformation in living memory. Indeed, there are fewer divisions among the Western elite when it comes to the present Israel-Palestine War than there were regarding the US invasion of Iraq when major US allies like France and Germany declined to participate. The Trotskyist World Socialist Website freely admits the developed world is more or less united: “Israel, with the support of all the imperialist powers in the US-NATO axis, is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.” We can rest assured that this publication, which follows the teachings of the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and regularly calls for Open Borders while criticizing right wing anti-semites, are probably not secret adherents to the White Nationalist theory of a Zionist Occupied Government (known as ZOG) existing either in the US or in the wider Western world. But terminology aside, the effect is the same, as the West is increasingly flirting with World War III and potential economic collapse in the event of a new Arab oil embargo. Futures traders are watching the conflict nervously fearing that it may expand into a regional war – it is not out of the question that a fear-based speculative run on oil may result in a form of economic suicide as advanced economies crumble in the face of high energy prices. Israel is not an asset to the US or the EU even from the perspective of their own strategic resource-based interests, but a massive strategic liability. And real discussion of that point is not only systemically kept out of the media, but gate-kept out of even pro-Palestinian leftist spaces by politically-correct leftists.

::The Zionists have been the foremost practitioners of Censorship and Cancel Culture since the end of World War II, advocating for both state and non-state backed censorship, shunning, guilt-by-association and McCarthyist economic retaliation for speech, state-funded propaganda on their behalf, and much more. Wherever they have gotten the upper-hand it has always meant more censorship and not less. We need not reach for any “ancient history” here, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly boasted of this fact on Twitter (now X) on February 12th 2020: “In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.” In other words, those who choose not to do business with Israel or who call for the economic boycott of Israel can be punished for that decision and that speech in 37 US states; meanwhile, 72% of Americans oppose laws punishing citizens and companies for boycotting Israel.

::While multiple federal courts have ruled that such laws are a violation of Free Speech, the present Republican dominated Supreme Court has simply declined to review challenges to their constitutionality. Lest anyone fall prey to the conservative temptation to view these laws as merely “cancelling the cancelers,” it should be noted that we are in midst of perhaps the biggest wave of McCarthyist “cancellation” since the McCarthy hearings. Americans, particularly academics and students, are losing their jobs and job offers over their stance on Israel, as well as their right to peaceful protest and assembly. The Zionists and their allies make no pretense about the fact that their speech stance is based on raw power: critics of Israel and Jews should be censored and fired, prosecuted too, if possible, while promoting laws that would prevent anyone else from doing likewise against them. What makes the current Culture Wars all the more into a sick joke is the fact that people have been fired for mostly benign comments on race, gender, and sexuality, whereas no supporter of Zionism has been fired for advocating genocide against the Palestinians or supporting the present war. The far-Right and anti-semitic National Justice Party issued a penetrating remark illustrating the hollowness of present discourse on wokeness and cancel culture: “The conservative theory that America has been taken hostage by the moral and protest power of [the] academic left has been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Israel students using their tried and true protest playbook — sit-ins, pushing cops around, intimidation of opponents — are now facing mass arrests all over the country, revealing that America’s leaders were only pretending to be afraid of them.”

::In Europe, the state of the freedom of expression and protest has become increasingly dire. The worst offender has been France, where President Macron banned pro-Palestinian protests almost immediately after the outbreak of the conflict. A former Rothschild banker, Macron is widely hated and derided in France as the president of the rich, and it is no surprise that the French people did not heed his prohibitions which has led the French senate to propose a bill that would make an insult against the state of Israel a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of €75,000 Euros. But, the ruling class of France is not alone, in Britain, the home secretary Suella Braverman argued that flying the Palestinian flag or chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Historically-speaking, Britain has long interpreted its unwritten constitution in a manner that puts its stance on freedom speech closer to American standards than to continental European ones, it is clear that for the ruling class of Britain this relative leniency is more and more a problem to be fixed through creative legal reinterpretation and raw police action. The German government under social democrat Olaf Schulz, widely considered the worst German prime minister in post-WWII history, has been equally slavish, banning most pro-Palestinian protests, dissolving a group that expressed support for Hamas by judicial fiat, and seeking to deport potentially pro-Palestinian demographics from Germany en masse. It appears that the European elite cares more for the state of Israel than it does about Democracy, Free Speech, or even their own countries! Citizens and residents of Britain, France, and Germany appear to be free to denounce their countries as racist colonialist oppressors with no redeeming qualities that should be burned to the ground but when it comes to Israel? Now that's a different story!

::This moment is not just the opportunity to stand up for the values of free speech and expression, that we believe in but also an opportunity to payback our enemies for their persecution of MAPs. An avowed enemy of MAPs, Republican Florida governor and Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis pushed through legislation that criminalized criticism of Israel. Sardonically known as “Zion Ron” in far-right circles, DeSantis is a massive booster of the state of Israel, going so far as to sign a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel while being present physically in Israel. The increasingly legally embattled and likely GOP candidate for president Donald Trump (also known as “Zion Don”), is another fanatical Zionist who ended decades of US policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in place of Tel Aviv. Lest we forget, it was Donald Trump and the Qanon cult he boosted, that set off a firestorm of anti-MAP hatred from the Right that has contributed to rising hateful attitudes towards MAPs and intolerance of difference of opinion on MAPs among the youth.

::Joe Biden's cynical backing for the current Gaza slaughter has earned him a new nickname – “Genocide Joe” – quite a change in tone from the clownish and quasi-endearing “Brandon.” There is no doubt that Joe Biden leads a party that are avowed enemies of MAPs. In fact, one new development in the legal persecution of minor attracted people is a bill introduced by the Democrats, passed with bipartisan support, that ends the statute of limitations at the national scale for real and perceived victims of CSA. In other words, real or perceived MAPs will be asked to recall the details of alleged events that in some states have passed their criminal statute of limitations decades ago, and if they are poor they will have no right to representation. Those that can pay out of pocket, will likely deplete their meagre savings or waste their near career end earnings, and will find that winning a case does not stave off going broke, since the US legal system does not mandate that the plaintiff pay any legal fees if they lose a case. Similar Democrat legislation along these lines, includes the Democratic governor of Louisiana signing a bill mandating similar penalties for possession of AI-generated child pornography as possession of actual child pornography involving real children. The Democrats in Florida's state senate also voted for Ron DeSantis's Death Penalty bill.

::In these dark times, what Biden represents to us MAPs may be more potent than anything he has done to us so far. He represents the 1980s Reagan Democrat who joined with Republican colleagues throughout the 80s and 90s, in a massive bipartisan effort that took minor attracted people from being comparatively tolerated, to being possibly the most stigmatized and criminalized sexual minority that has ever existed within the history of Modern Western Democracies. His efforts to reinvigorate this stale neoliberal 80s era consensus, a consensus against us, has lead him down the path of becoming an active accomplice and conspirator in the greatest foreign policy crime in this century. Its clear that Genocide Joe must go.

::MAPs and all caring people should note that Gaza's population is extremely young, with 44% of the population being 14 or below. The planned expulsion and even extermination of at least a million children should provoke outrage and hatred in every child lover. We MAPs have no ties to the system, we are effectively locked out of it, and we are not allowed to post our opinions on any large long established social network. Already, the Biden administration is discussing deploying US soldiers alongside IDF soldiers in the Gaza invasion. Already they have deployed to carrier groups back up Israel and deter any outside interference from Iran or other regional military actors in Israel's planned ethnic cleansing. The risk that MAPs residing in Western countries will be propagandized or drafted to fight in this escalating conflict is not small, particularly if Israel begins to lose the war or if it becomes a touchstone for a wider regional conflict.

::MAPs should refuse to fight wars for a system that hates them, especially wars on behalf of Israel. MAPs should speak out against child killers, including the child killers of the Netanyahu government driven by a heady mix of fundamentalist religion and ultra-nationalism, who are backed to the hilt by world capitalism. At least a few members of our mod team are atheists and reject religion in its entirety, including Judaism, which provides a theological justification for the Israeli state as a Jewish supremacist entity. We do not dictate the opinions that even our mod team must hold when it comes to faith, economics, broader politics, racial issues etc. That the decision to release a statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict met unanimous assent from our moderation team is a solid indication of where MAPs stand.

Our recommendations:

# Return freedom of speech to the American and European peoples – this conflict has proven that this right is too important to be left in the hands of the “enlightened” censors
# An immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Gaza blockade
# Institute an immediate two-state solution recognizing the West Bank and the Gaza strip as sovereign Palestinian territory
# Indict Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Olaf Scholz alongside Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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2023-12-11T05:00:12Z

Loli: Created page with "This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of PCMA. The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section #Files below. == Content == From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA) and Childlove.su (cl.su): ::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the. We understand that any tim..."

This is an official statement on the 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestine by moderators of [[PCMA]].
The following essay is also available in ODT format, with PGP signatures. See section [[#Files]] below.

== Content ==
From the Moderators of Pro-Choice MAP Activists (PCMA) and Childlove.su (cl.su):

::In light of current events, we thought it would be germane to release a statement regarding the atrocities that being unveiled before the. We understand that any time anything of note happens there is considerable pressure to take a stance on a particular issue, to side for, or, against the new “current thing.” It is our perspective that this type of pressure to follow the politics of the moment and to tail MAP perspectives onto this or that broadly anti-MAP political faction has been a factor keeping MAPs distracted and pacified in the struggle against Antis. We deviate here from this general stance regarding the need for the MAP movement to be self-determining and independent for reasons that we hope to make clear. Let it be said, that at this moment, this does not change our general commitment to freedom of expression, even for stances that the mod team finds repugnant, such as full-throated support for Israel's current war. Nor do we see a need to alter this stance for the foreseeable future given the EXTREME unpopularity and/or indifference towards Zionism that we have seen both within PCMA and childlove.su.

::First, it should be said that verbal statements made by Israel's leadership and documents released by its government have amount to a shockingly open and public confession of premeditated ethnic cleansing of the Gaza territory. On November 12th, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter proclaimed “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.” The term Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from the British mandate territory by Zionist settlers during the foundation of Israel. Dichter, as if steelmanning his statement against the human capacity to incline towards denial or disbelief in the face of moral horror returned to a menacing repetition of the theme, “Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it'll end.” Dichter, a former director of Israel's FBI-equivalent known as Shin Bet, would go on to admit to genocidal intent on the part of the Israeli by stating “I don't know how it'll end up happening” when asked if Gazans would be allowed to return to their homes. It should be noted that all scholars of the Holocaust acknowledge that the decision to annihilate European Jews and the planning to carry it out was kept top secret by the Nazi state. No statement from Hitler, public or otherwise, exists where he admits his intention to exterminate the Jewish people entirely. At this late date, we can say with firm confidence that such a statement will never be found; one also struggles with great difficulty to find openly genocidal public statements from other top Nazis. Suffice it to say, that the situation in the present Israel-Palestine war is much worse than the mainstream media has led Western publics to believe. Since this is the position openly staked out by Israeli ministers in this early phase of the war it hardly requires suspension of disbelief to think that behind closed doors there is talk of genocide in the strictest sense of the term, e.g. extermination of a population through mass killing. Proof that this may actually be the case was furnished after Netanyahu was forced to suspend an ultra-right wing minister after he openly pronounced that dropping one of Israel's allegedly non-existent nuclear weapons on Gaza was an option.

::As casualties mount among the IDF during its current campaign to lay siege and occupy the Gaza territory it seems likely that the current war, which is already turning Gaza city into a charnel house where 11,000 people among them 4,000 children have been slaughtered, will radicalize into a more violent war with targeted mass killing of civilians. Already, Israel has killed more civilians in a month than Putin's Russia has killed in nearly two years of war in Ukraine, a much more populous country that had also undergone prewar militarization to a greater extent. As of this writing, Israel has bombed at least seven hospitals, two of them children's hospitals, and three refugee camps. The notion that Israel is not targeting civilians and is attempting to avoid civilian deaths strains credibility. A particularly heinous incident is the admission by an IDF spokesman in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that an air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp that killed more than one hundred civilians was done to kill one Hamas leader with full knowledge that civilians were present. After this open admission of a war crime, the same camp would be bombed by Israeli forces two more times.

::The present Israeli-Gaza war has been the subject of the vastest campaign of systemic censorship, blatant propaganda, mainstream media lies and misinformation in living memory. Indeed, there are fewer divisions among the Western elite when it comes to the present Israel-Palestine War than there were regarding the US invasion of Iraq when major US allies like France and Germany declined to participate. The Trotskyist World Socialist Website freely admits the developed world is more or less united: “Israel, with the support of all the imperialist powers in the US-NATO axis, is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.” We can rest assured that this publication, which follows the teachings of the Russian-Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and regularly calls for Open Borders while criticizing right wing anti-semites, are probably not secret adherents to the White Nationalist theory of a Zionist Occupied Government (known as ZOG) existing either in the US or in the wider Western world. But terminology aside, the effect is the same, as the West is increasingly flirting with World War III and potential economic collapse in the event of a new Arab oil embargo. Futures traders are watching the conflict nervously fearing that it may expand into a regional war – it is not out of the question that a fear-based speculative run on oil may result in a form of economic suicide as advanced economies crumble in the face of high energy prices. Israel is not an asset to the US or the EU even from the perspective of their own strategic resource-based interests, but a massive strategic liability. And real discussion of that point is not only systemically kept out of the media, but gate-kept out of even pro-Palestinian leftist spaces by politically-correct leftists.

::The Zionists have been the foremost practitioners of Censorship and Cancel Culture since the end of World War II, advocating for both state and non-state backed censorship, shunning, guilt-by-association and McCarthyist economic retaliation for speech, state-funded propaganda on their behalf, and much more. Wherever they have gotten the upper-hand it has always meant more censorship and not less. We need not reach for any “ancient history” here, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly boasted of this fact on Twitter (now X) on February 12th 2020: “In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.” In other words, those who choose not to do business with Israel or who call for the economic boycott of Israel can be punished for that decision and that speech in 37 US states; meanwhile, 72% of Americans oppose laws punishing citizens and companies for boycotting Israel.

::While multiple federal courts have ruled that such laws are a violation of Free Speech, the present Republican dominated Supreme Court has simply declined to review challenges to their constitutionality. Lest anyone fall prey to the conservative temptation to view these laws as merely “cancelling the cancelers,” it should be noted that we are in midst of perhaps the biggest wave of McCarthyist “cancellation” since the McCarthy hearings. Americans, particularly academics and students, are losing their jobs and job offers over their stance on Israel, as well as their right to peaceful protest and assembly. The Zionists and their allies make no pretense about the fact that their speech stance is based on raw power: critics of Israel and Jews should be censored and fired, prosecuted too, if possible, while promoting laws that would prevent anyone else from doing likewise against them. What makes the current Culture Wars all the more into a sick joke is the fact that people have been fired for mostly benign comments on race, gender, and sexuality, whereas no supporter of Zionism has been fired for advocating genocide against the Palestinians or supporting the present war. The far-Right and anti-semitic National Justice Party issued a penetrating remark illustrating the hollowness of present discourse on wokeness and cancel culture: “The conservative theory that America has been taken hostage by the moral and protest power of [the] academic left has been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Israel students using their tried and true protest playbook — sit-ins, pushing cops around, intimidation of opponents — are now facing mass arrests all over the country, revealing that America’s leaders were only pretending to be afraid of them.”

::In Europe, the state of the freedom of expression and protest has become increasingly dire. The worst offender has been France, where President Macron banned pro-Palestinian protests almost immediately after the outbreak of the conflict. A former Rothschild banker, Macron is widely hated and derided in France as the president of the rich, and it is no surprise that the French people did not heed his prohibitions which has led the French senate to propose a bill that would make an insult against the state of Israel a crime punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of €75,000 Euros. But, the ruling class of France is not alone, in Britain, the home secretary Suella Braverman argued that flying the Palestinian flag or chanting the pro-Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Historically-speaking, Britain has long interpreted its unwritten constitution in a manner that puts its stance on freedom speech closer to American standards than to continental European ones, it is clear that for the ruling class of Britain this relative leniency is more and more a problem to be fixed through creative legal reinterpretation and raw police action. The German government under social democrat Olaf Schulz, widely considered the worst German prime minister in post-WWII history, has been equally slavish, banning most pro-Palestinian protests, dissolving a group that expressed support for Hamas by judicial fiat, and seeking to deport potentially pro-Palestinian demographics from Germany en masse. It appears that the European elite cares more for the state of Israel than it does about Democracy, Free Speech, or even their own countries! Citizens and residents of Britain, France, and Germany appear to be free to denounce their countries as racist colonialist oppressors with no redeeming qualities that should be burned to the ground but when it comes to Israel? Now that's a different story!

::This moment is not just the opportunity to stand up for the values of free speech and expression, that we believe in but also an opportunity to payback our enemies for their persecution of MAPs. An avowed enemy of MAPs, Republican Florida governor and Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis pushed through legislation that criminalized criticism of Israel. Sardonically known as “Zion Ron” in far-right circles, DeSantis is a massive booster of the state of Israel, going so far as to sign a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel while being present physically in Israel. The increasingly legally embattled and likely GOP candidate for president Donald Trump (also known as “Zion Don”), is another fanatical Zionist who ended decades of US policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in place of Tel Aviv. Lest we forget, it was Donald Trump and the Qanon cult he boosted, that set off a firestorm of anti-MAP hatred from the Right that has contributed to rising hateful attitudes towards MAPs and intolerance of difference of opinion on MAPs among the youth.

::Joe Biden's cynical backing for the current Gaza slaughter has earned him a new nickname – “Genocide Joe” – quite a change in tone from the clownish and quasi-endearing “Brandon.” There is no doubt that Joe Biden leads a party that are avowed enemies of MAPs. In fact, one new development in the legal persecution of minor attracted people is a bill introduced by the Democrats, passed with bipartisan support, that ends the statute of limitations at the national scale for real and perceived victims of CSA. In other words, real or perceived MAPs will be asked to recall the details of alleged events that in some states have passed their criminal statute of limitations decades ago, and if they are poor they will have no right to representation. Those that can pay out of pocket, will likely deplete their meagre savings or waste their near career end earnings, and will find that winning a case does not stave off going broke, since the US legal system does not mandate that the plaintiff pay any legal fees if they lose a case. Similar Democrat legislation along these lines, includes the Democratic governor of Louisiana signing a bill mandating similar penalties for possession of AI-generated child pornography as possession of actual child pornography involving real children. The Democrats in Florida's state senate also voted for Ron DeSantis's Death Penalty bill.

::In these dark times, what Biden represents to us MAPs may be more potent than anything he has done to us so far. He represents the 1980s Reagan Democrat who joined with Republican colleagues throughout the 80s and 90s, in a massive bipartisan effort that took minor attracted people from being comparatively tolerated, to being possibly the most stigmatized and criminalized sexual minority that has ever existed within the history of Modern Western Democracies. His efforts to reinvigorate this stale neoliberal 80s era consensus, a consensus against us, has lead him down the path of becoming an active accomplice and conspirator in the greatest foreign policy crime in this century. Its clear that Genocide Joe must go.

::MAPs and all caring people should note that Gaza's population is extremely young, with 44% of the population being 14 or below. The planned expulsion and even extermination of at least a million children should provoke outrage and hatred in every child lover. We MAPs have no ties to the system, we are effectively locked out of it, and we are not allowed to post our opinions on any large long established social network. Already, the Biden administration is discussing deploying US soldiers alongside IDF soldiers in the Gaza invasion. Already they have deployed to carrier groups back up Israel and deter any outside interference from Iran or other regional military actors in Israel's planned ethnic cleansing. The risk that MAPs residing in Western countries will be propagandized or drafted to fight in this escalating conflict is not small, particularly if Israel begins to lose the war or if it becomes a touchstone for a wider regional conflict.

::MAPs should refuse to fight wars for a system that hates them, especially wars on behalf of Israel. MAPs should speak out against child killers, including the child killers of the Netanyahu government driven by a heady mix of fundamentalist religion and ultra-nationalism, who are backed to the hilt by world capitalism. At least a few members of our mod team are atheists and reject religion in its entirety, including Judaism, which provides a theological justification for the Israeli state as a Jewish supremacist entity. We do not dictate the opinions that even our mod team must hold when it comes to faith, economics, broader politics, racial issues etc. That the decision to release a statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict met unanimous assent from our moderation team is a solid indication of where MAPs stand.

Our recommendations:

# Return freedom of speech to the American and European peoples – this conflict has proven that this right is too important to be left in the hands of the “enlightened” censors
# An immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Gaza blockade
# Institute an immediate two-state solution recognizing the West Bank and the Gaza strip as sovereign Palestinian territory
# Indict Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Olaf Scholz alongside Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for Crimes Against Humanity

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Minor attraction in popular culture

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{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.
* Various ('''V''') - Multiple types.
* '''N/A''' - Not applicable (features minor attraction or minor-attracted characters as a general concept).

== Live-action movies ==

* '''Beau-pere''' (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* '''Laura, les ombres de l’ete''' (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* '''Fruhreifen-Report''' (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071230025153/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voor_een_verloren_soldaat For a lost soldier]''' (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* '''La disubbidienza''' (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* '''Lolita''' (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* '''Lolita''' (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* '''Piccoli fuochi''' (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* '''Piccole labbra''' (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* '''[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s4uDWvTbjpd7Lm27TYpfRk8Rngouq99Afr8Bos4R0Xc/edit#heading=h.h9bo8fng0u4x Les amities particulieres]''' (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* '''The lover''' (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* '''American beauty''' (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* '''Death in Venice''' (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* '''Meri Nimmo''' (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* '''Sundays and Cybele''' (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* '''Muidhond''' (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* '''The trouble with being born''' (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* '''Cuties''' (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* '''Guter Junge''' (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* '''Pretty baby''' (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* '''The Orphan''' (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* '''Poison Ivy''' (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* '''Leon: The Professional''' (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* '''Beautiful girls''' (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* '''Interview with the Vampire''' (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* '''Man on fire''' (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* '''Man on Fire''' (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* '''Anandi Gopal''' (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* '''Blue Is the Warmest Colour''' (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Strange_Love Love Strange Love]''' (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* '''Phoring''' (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* '''Anandi Gopal''' (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* '''Blank Check''' (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* '''The Woodsman''' (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* '''Kopfplatzen''' (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* '''Labyrinth''' (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* '''That’s my boy''' (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.
* '''En Proie''' (Guiraud, 2016) ('''MG''')
** A shot film about Thomas and his struggles with his pedophilic attraction, with him trying as much as he can to abstain from certain habits via physical exercise. At his daughter's birthday party, his path crosses that of little Mathilde. What was only supposed to be a banal event like treating a wound then becomes a real ordeal for him.
* '''Softie''' (Theis, 2021) ('''MB''')
** A coming-of-age movie following a troubled 10-year-old boy living with his single mother and two siblings in Forbach, France, as he struggles to reconcile the hardships of life and his sexuality, part of it including his almost-romantic relationship with his teacher.
* '''Elève libre''' (Lafosse, 2008) ('''MB''')
**A sixteen-year-old aspiring tennis pro neglects his education in hopes of volleying his way straight to Wimbledon, but finds his ambitions sidelined when his relationship with his tutor takes a decidedly personal turn.
* '''Clément''' (Bercot, 2001) ('''WB''')
** A 13-year-old boy develops a crush on a grown woman old enough to be his mother while on a vacation at the beach, only to discover she is also attracted to him, in this controversial drama from France.
* '''Evolution''' (Hadžihalilović, 2015) ('''WB''')
** A sci-fi horror thriller following Nicholas, a sickly young boy and his discovery of weird events surrounding his island. His friend and best helper is Stella, one of the island's nurses.
* '''Malèna''' (Tornatore, 2000) ('''WB''')
** In a small WW2-era Sicilian town, teen boy Renato becomes obsessed with the town's pariah, a despised widow who's also envied for her beauty.
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071023013303/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Face The Man Without a Face]''', (1993, Mel Gibson), based on the novel The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland ('''MB''')
** A disfigured teacher with a mysterious past forms a friendship with a troubled 12-year-old boy. Public suspicion over the nature of their relationship drives the film toward its climax, though the actual relationship between the two is left ambiguous.
* '''Lust och fägring stor''', released in English as All Things Fair (Bo Widerberg, 1995) [ ('''WB''')
** The story of a sexual relationship between a teacher and her 15-year-old student in Malmö, Sweden during World War II.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017013934/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.I.E. '''L.I.E.'''] (Michael Cuesta, 2001) ('''MB''')
** The film about is about sexuality exploration and the relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a pederast.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071105042325/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_(film) '''Kinsey'''] (Bill Condon, 2004) ('''V''')
** Kenneth Braun furnished Alfred C. Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute with a virtual autobiography of his sexual life. He claims sexual relations with 605 pre-adolescent males and with 231 pre-adolescent females as well as many family members.
* '''Gossenkind''', released in English as Street Kid and Streetchild (Peter Kern, 1992) ('''MB''')
** 14-year-old sex-worker meets an older man and loving relationship begins
* '''Eban and Charley''' (James Bolton, 2000) ('''MB''')
** A 29-year-old forms an intimate relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
* '''Un enfant dans la foule''' (A Child in the Crowd) (Gérard Blain, 1976) ('''MB''')
** 13-year-old Paul discovers that he is attractive to certain soldiers in 1944.
* '''Burning Secret''' (Andrew Birkin, 1988) ('''MB''')
** An aristocrat becomes infatuated with a 12-year-old boy.
* '''Abuse''' (Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 1983) ('''MB''')
** Thomas, an effeminate 14-year-old who is physically abused by his parents, has a relationship with a 30-year-old gay man

== Western animation ==
* '''An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster''' (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* '''Simba: è nato un re''' (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which he reciprocates, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* '''Lolita''' (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* '''The enchanter''' (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* '''Laughter in the Dark''' (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* '''Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle''' (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* '''Transparent Things''' (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* '''Look at the Harlequins!''' (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* '''The Original of Laura''' (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* '''The lover''' (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* '''The North China Lover''' (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* '''[[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]]''' (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* '''One Hundred Years of Solitude''' (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* '''Love in the time of Cholera''' (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* '''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''' (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* '''Of Love and Other Demons''' (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* '''Death in Venice''' (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* '''You Can Be a King If You Are Brave''' (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* '''[[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]]''' (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* '''The Fourth of June''' (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* '''The Link: A Victorian mystery''' (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* '''My love is like all lovely things''' (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* '''For a Lost Soldier''' (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* '''Nude men''' (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* '''Interview with the Vampire''' (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* '''Man on Fire''' (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* '''Fire and Hemlock''' (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* '''Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story''' (Gaiman, 2006) ('''V''')
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* '''Past the dark field''' (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* '''Starfish''' (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.
* '''Firefly''' (Anthony, 1990) ('''MG''')
** In one part of this sci-fi novel, a 3-year-old girl has sex with a monster in order to teach her about sex.

== Comics ==
* '''Chester the Molester''' (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.
* '''Le Petit Spirou''' (Tome and Janry, 1987-present) ('''WB''')
** A spin-off imagining Spirou's childhood. Features lots of sex comedy, with many of the jokes involving boys and women in erotic situations.
* '''Titeuf''' (Zep, 1992-present) ('''WB''')
** The stories center around how children perceive the adult world, with some of the jokes involving boys like the titular character trying to get laid with women like the schools nurse.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* '''Pehredaar Piya Ki''' ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* '''Jhansi Ki Rani''' ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* '''Black Mirror''' (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* '''Picket Fences''' (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* '''Once and again''' (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* '''Shameless''' (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==

:''See also [[Lolicon]]''

* '''Kodomo no Jikan''' ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* '''Cardcaptor Sakura''' ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* '''Narutaru''' ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist is already in the first year of junior high and begins a relationship with one of her allies, a young man.
* '''The Ancient Magus’ bride''' ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* '''Higehiro''' ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* '''A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari''' ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* '''Domestic girlfriend''' ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* '''Loveless''' ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* '''Happy Sugar Life''' ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* '''After the rain''' ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* '''Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei''' ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* '''Negima! Magister Negi Magi''' ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* '''Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai!''' ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* '''Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono''' ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* '''Hanayomesama wa 16-sai''' ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* '''Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita''' ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* '''Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro!''' ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* '''Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou''' ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art teacher.
* '''Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai''' ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* '''Junsui adolescence''' ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* '''News Na Kare!''' ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* '''Sensei to Watashi''' ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* '''OhoShisama ni Onegai!''' ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* '''Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san''' ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* '''Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku''' ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* '''Shota x Oni''' ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* '''Sasaki and Miyano''' ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* '''Speed Grapher''' ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.
* '''Wataten''' ('''WG''')
** A shy college student becomes smitten by her younger sister’s classmate and begins having her dress up in cosplay in exchange for snacks. The series follows the student as she grows closer to the classmate and her other friends.
* '''Oneesan wa Joshi Shougakusei ni Kyoumi ga Arimasu''' ('''WG''')
** The comedic story about a high school teacher, who happens to be a pedophile, and the girl she babysits with her roommate!
* '''Ichigo Mashimaro''' ('''WG''')
** The story tells of the adventure of four elementary school girls and their older sister-figure Nobue, who is suggested to derive sensual pleasure from seeing the girls playing, making Nobue appear as a moe enthusiast.
* '''Ryūō no Oshigoto!''' ('''MG''')
** A prodigy shogi player takes a 9-year-old girl with as his disciple and the two brace themselves together in the world of shogi, making friends and rivals. The young girl is very possessive of her master, displaying yandere traits.
* '''Niehime to Kemono no Ō''' ('''MG''')
** The king of beasts and demons, intrigued by one of his sacrificial humans, young girl with nothing left to live for, decides to take her as his consort and make her queen of his kingdom.

== Documentary ==
* '''Freiheit fur die Liebe''' (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* '''[[Are All Men Pedophiles?]]''' (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* '''[[I, Pedophile]]''' (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* '''The Paedophile Next Door''' (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* '''Death in Venice''' (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* '''The Vagina Monologues''' (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* '''[[Downstate]]''' (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* '''Faust''' (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* '''Erl-king''' (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.
* '''Madama Butterfly''' (Goethe, 1782) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1904 Japan, it tells a tragic love affair between a 15-year-old Geisha and an American naval officer who’s marrying her for convenience but regrets his choice later.
* '''Miss Saigon''' (Schönberg and Boublil, 1989) ('''MG''')
** A retelling of Madama Butterfly set in 1970s Saigon amidst the Vietnam war, it tells of a doomed romance between a United States marine and a 17-year-old south Vietnamese bargirl.

== Video games ==
* '''Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach''' ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* '''Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling –''' (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* '''Nekopara''' (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* '''Musume Seikatsu''' (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* '''Shoujo Kyouiku''' (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* '''Bosei ~Mama Club~''' (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* '''Byakko no Kamikakushi''' (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* '''Damegane''' (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!
* '''Batman: Arkham Origins''' (Warner Bros. Games, 2013) ('''MG''')
** The action-adventure game features cutscenes of a 15-year-old Barbara Gordon arguing with her father over Batman, as well as her helping Batman in one of his mission and promising to help him next time, with the scene having some romantic undertones,

== Music and music videos ==

This is fully documented at [[Music featuring attraction to minors]].

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Minor attraction in popular culture

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{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.
* Various ('''V''') - Multiple types.
* '''N/A''' - Not applicable (features minor attraction or minor-attracted characters as a general concept).

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]] (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* [[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]] (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardcaptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* [[Are All Men Pedophiles?]] (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* [[I, Pedophile]] (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* The Paedophile Next Door (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* [[Downstate]] (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Minor attraction in popular culture

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Loli: redundancy

{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.
* Various ('''V''') - Multiple types.
* '''N/A''' - Not applicable (features minor attraction as a general concept or minor-attracted characters not involved in a relationship).

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]] (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* [[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]] (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardcaptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* [[Are All Men Pedophiles?]] (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* [[I, Pedophile]] (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* The Paedophile Next Door (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* [[Downstate]] (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Minor attraction in popular culture

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{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.
* Various ('''V''') - Multiple types.
* N/A ('''N/A''') - Not applicable (features minor attraction as a general concept or minor-attracted characters not involved in a relationship).

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]] (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* [[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]] (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardcaptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* [[Are All Men Pedophiles?]] (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* [[I, Pedophile]] (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* The Paedophile Next Door (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* [[Downstate]] (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Minor attraction in popular culture

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{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]] (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* [[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]] (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardcaptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* [[Are All Men Pedophiles?]] (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* [[I, Pedophile]] (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* The Paedophile Next Door (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* [[Downstate]] (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Minor attraction in popular culture

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Loli: minor fixes

{{Template:Lists}}<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[Minor Attracted Person|minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]] (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* [[Greek Love Through The Ages|Alexander’s Choice]] (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about [[NOMAP|non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons]].
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardcaptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* [[Are All Men Pedophiles?]] (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* [[I, Pedophile]] (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of [[NOMAP|non-offending MAPs]] and their various issues.
* The Paedophile Next Door (Herzog, 2014) ('''V''')
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* [[Downstate]] (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Minor attraction in popular culture

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This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in [[Wikipedia:Popular_culture|popular culture]], particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.

Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on [[minor attraction]] through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and age-disparate relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.

The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
* Man-Girl ('''MG''') - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
* Woman-Boy ('''WB''') - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
* Man-Boy ('''MB''') - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
* Woman-Girl ('''WG''') - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.

== Live-action movies ==
* Beau-pere (Blier, 1981) ('''MG''')
** The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
* Laura, les ombres de l’ete (Hamilton, 1979) ('''MG''')
** An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
* Fruhreifen-Report (Hofbauer, 1973) ('''MG''')
** An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
* For a lost soldier (Kerbosch, 1992) ('''MB''')
** The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* La disubbidienza (Lado, 1981) ('''WB''')
** An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
* Lolita (Kubrick, 1962) ('''MG''')
** Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
* Lolita (Lyne, 1997) ('''MG''')
** Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
* Piccoli fuochi (Del Monte, 1985) ('''WB''')
** Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
* Piccole labbra (Cattarinich, 1978) ('''MG''')
** An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
* Les amities particulieres (Delannoy, 1964) ('''MB''')
** The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 13-year-old young men in a catholic boarding school.
* The lover (Annaud, 1992) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras.
* American beauty (1999) ('''MG''')
** Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Visconti, 1972) ('''MB''')
** An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz.
* Meri Nimmo (Shanklya, 2018) ('''WB''')
** Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
* Sundays and Cybele (Bourguignon, 1962) ('''MG''')
** The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
* Muidhond (Toye, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
* The trouble with being born (Wollner, 2020) ('''MG''')
** The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
* Cuties (Doucoure, 2020) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
* Guter Junge (Fischer, 2008) ('''MB''')
** A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
* Pretty baby (Malle, 1978) ('''MG''')
** A young prostitute, played by the (then 12-year-old) Brookes Shields, has a sexual affair with a struggling artist.
* The Orphan (Collett-Serra, 2009) ('''MG''')
** A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
* Poison Ivy (Shea, 1992) ('''MG''')
** The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
* Leon: The Professional (Besson, 1994) ('''MG''')
** The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
* Beautiful girls (Rosenberg, 1996) ('''MG''')
** A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
* Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994) ('''MG''')
** An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
* Man on fire (Chouraqui, 1987) ('''MG''')
** Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) ('''MG''')
** An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidhwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) ('''WG''')
** The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
* Love Strange Love (Khouri, 1982) ('''WB''')
** A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
* Phoring (Roychowdhury, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
* Anandi Gopal (Vidwans, 2019) ('''MG''')
** A biographical movie on Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, who married her husband at the age of 9.
* Blank Check (Wainwright, 1994) ('''WB''')
** An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
* The Woodsman (Kassell, 2004) ('''MG''')
** The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
* Kopfplatzen (Ceviz, 2019) ('''MB''')
** It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
* Labyrinth (Henson, 1986) ('''MG''')
** The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
* That’s my boy (Anders, 2012) ('''WB''')
** A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.

== Western animation ==
* An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Latham, 1999) ('''MG''')
** The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
* Simba: è nato un re (Corradi, 1997) ('''MG''')
** One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which reciprocated, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.

== Literature ==
* Lolita (Nabokov, 1955) ('''MG''')
** Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
* The enchanter (Nabokov, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
* Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov, 1938) ('''MG''')
** A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
* Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Nabokov, 1969) ('''MG''')
** Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
* Transparent Things (Nabokov, 1972) ('''MG''')
** The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
* Look at the Harlequins! (Nabokov, 1974) ('''MG''')
** The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
* The Original of Laura (Nabokov, 2009) ('''MG''')
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
* The lover (Duras, 1984) ('''MG''')
** An autobiography recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
* The North China Lover (Duras, 1991) ('''MG''')
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love with candour and nostalgia.
* Tiger, Tiger: A memoir (Fragoso, 2011) ('''MG''')
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez, 1967) ('''MG''')
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
* Love in the time of Cholera (Marquez, 1985) ('''MG''')
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez, 2004) ('''MG''')
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
* Of Love and Other Demons (Marquez, 1994) ('''MG''')
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
* Death in Venice (Mann, 1912) ('''MB''')
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
* You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Wolfe, 2023) ('''MB''')
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
* Alexander’s Choice (Marlowe, 2012) ('''MB''')
** The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
* The Fourth of June (Benedictus, 1962) ('''MB''')
** The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
* The Link: A Victorian mystery (Maugham, 1969) ('''MB''')
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
* My love is like all lovely things (Caunter, 2023) ('''MB''')
** A collection of boylove-themed poems.
* For a Lost Soldier (Dantzig, 1996) ('''MB''')
** The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
* Nude men (Filipacchi, 1993) ('''MG''')
** The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
* Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976) ('''MG''')
** The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
* Man on Fire (Quinnell, 1980) ('''MG''')
** A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
* Fire and Hemlock (Jones, 1984) ('''MG''')
** A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
* Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Gaiman, 2006) (MG/MB)
** A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
* Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) ('''V''')
** A collection of short fiction about non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons.
* Starfish (Watts, 1999) '''('''N/A''')'''
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.

== Comics ==
* Chester the Molester (Tinsley, 1976-1989) ('''MG''')
** A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.

== TV shows (live action) ==
* Pehredaar Piya Ki ('''WB''')
** A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
* Jhansi Ki Rani ('''MG''')
** Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
* Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (Watkins, 2016) ('''N/A''')
** The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
* Picket Fences (Kelley, 1992-1996)
** 1x13 ('''MG'''): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
** 1x14 ('''WB'''): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
* Once and again (Zwick and Herskovitz, 1999-2002) ('''MG''')
** A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
* Shameless (Abbott, 2011-2021) ('''V''')
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.

== Anime and manga ==
* Kodomo no Jikan ('''MG''')
** A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
* Cardraptor Sakura ('''MG''')
** A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
* Narutaru ('''MG''')
** By the end of the manga, the female protagonist begins a relationship with a man.
* The Ancient Magus’ bride ('''MG''')
** An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
* Higehiro ('''MG''')
** A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
* A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari ('''WB''')
** Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
* Domestic girlfriend ('''WB''')
** A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
* Loveless ('''V''')
** The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
* Happy Sugar Life ('''WG''')
** Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
* After the rain ('''MG''')
** A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
* Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei ('''MG''')
** A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
* Negima! Magister Negi Magi ('''WB''')
** Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
* Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! ('''MG''')
** A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
* Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono ('''MG''')
** A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
* Hanayomesama wa 16-sai ('''MG''')
** After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
* Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita ('''MG''')
** A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
* Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! ('''MG''')
** A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
* Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou ('''MG''')
** A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art eacher.
* Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai ('''MG''')
** A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
* Junsui adolescence ('''WG''')
** A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
* News Na Kare! ('''MB''')
** The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
* Sensei to Watashi ('''MG''')
** A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
* OhoShisama ni Onegai! ('''MG''')
** The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
* Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san ('''WB''')
** A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
* Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku ('''MB''')
** A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
* Shota x Oni ('''MB''')
** The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
* Sasaki and Miyano ('''MB''')
** A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
* Speed Grapher ('''MG''')
** The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.

== Documentary ==
* Freiheit fur die Liebe (Kronhausen, 1969) ('''MG''')
** The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
* Are all men pedophiles? (Breure, 2012) ('''MG''')
** The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
* I, Pedophile (Campea, 2016) ('''V''')
** A documentary looking into the lives of non-offending MAPs and their various issues.

== Musicals and theatre ==
* Death in Venice (Britten, 1973) ('''MB''')
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
* The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, 1996) ('''WG''')
** A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
* Downstate (Norris, 2018) ('''V''')
** A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
* Faust (Gounod, 1859) ('''MG''')
** In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
* Erl-king (Goethe, 1782) ('''MB''')
** A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.

== Video games ==
* Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach ('''MG''')
** A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
* Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) ('''MG''')
** The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
* Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) ('''MG''')
** An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
* Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) ('''MG''')
** A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
* Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) ('''MG''')
** A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
* Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) ('''WB''')
** Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
* Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) ('''WB''')
** In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
* Damegane (10mile) ('''WB''')
** Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!

== Music and music videos ==
* Ranga Maliyela (Ketaki Mategaonkar and Sharayu Date, 2019) ('''MG''')
** Song produced for the autobiographical movie of India’s first female doctor, Anandi Gopal Joshi, who would marry her husband at the age of 9.
* Mann Bharrya | The little friend story (B Praak & Jaani, 2019) ('''MB''')
** The music video tells of the emotional bond formed between a boy and a young man.
* Deuces are wild (Aerosmith, 1994) ('''MG''')
* I Love The Girls (Bognibov, 2013) ('''MG''')

Transgender youth and attraction to minors

2023-07-25T15:37:13Z

Loli:

__NOTOC__{{Template:adj}}[[File:Transrights.jpg|thumb|278px|Transgender rights, including the medical transitions of transgender youth, is one of the most contentious cultural topics in 2020s mainstream media, invoking as a tangent, youth agency, and potentially problematizing outdated concepts such as [[Moral panic|purity discourse]], [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]] and [[safeguarding]].]]
The topic of '''[[Wikipedia:Transgender youth|trans youth]]''', in particular, "[[Wikipedia:Transgender health care|gender-affirming healthcare]]", is an often referred to theme in the [[Wikipedia:Anti-gender movement|culture war]] between, on the one hand, a hostile ideological nexus of conservatives alongside ([[Wikipedia:TERF|trans exclusionary]]) "gender critical" [[Feminism|feminists]], and on the other, sympathetic modern social-justice orthodoxy, sometimes known as "wokism".

The trans-affirming social-justice alliance has often been linked with [[Minor Attracted Person|attraction to minors]] and the [[MAP Movement]] in the 2020s. This linkage takes two forms, ''theoretical'' (as described below), and ''associative'' - where the trans-ness or trans-inclusivity of [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] or vice versa is [[Grooming|weaponized by conservatives]] in political discourse. The controversies surrounding [[Allyn Walker]] and [[Jacob Breslow]] are striking examples of this weaponization, as are the editorials of gender-critical [[Wikipedia:TERF|(TERF)]] news outlets such as ''Reduxx'',<ref>[https://reduxx.info/youth-drag-queen-mentor-facing-child-pornography-charges/ One of many such examples cited by Anna Slatz and Reduxx]</ref> which focus on trans people whose lifestyles involve intersecting queer/invalidated expressions of desire, and thus may "sexually offend".

The topic of transgender youth is contentious among MAPs. Some youth liberationists, neutral and [[pro-c]] MAPs, have advocated that the ongoing [[Wikipedia:Gender dysphoria in children|medicalization]] of transgender youth must be endorsed (or at least accepted), on the basis that it would inevitably lead to the abandonment of [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]], and adoption of [[Research: Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes|evidence-based approaches]] with respect to the sexual agency of minors in general.<ref>[https://www.boychat.org/messages/1615024.htm Pharmakon; BC]</ref> The topic of transgender youth is said to form an important part of the MAP Movement's [[War of adjacency|adjacency-enabled]] rise to public contention.

Other MAPs and transgender people disagree with this outlook for varying ideological or personal reasons (see section on [[Transgender_youth_and_attraction_to_minors#Dissent_among_MAPs_and_Trans_people|''dissent'']], below).

==Linkages==

As mentioned, earlier, there have been some attempts to link the affirmation of transgender-identified youth with minor attraction - sometimes embraced and sometimes rejected by MAPs, and generally rejected by LGBTQ+ people, except for a conservative/"gender-critical" (TERF) subset.

===''Theoretical''===

The GB News TV columnist Mark Steyn described the theoretical linkage between transgender youth and the pro-c MAP Movement on his show, 6 Oct, 2022:

<blockquote>'''STEYN''' (with ironic sarcasm): ''I should add, of course, that pedophilia has absolutely nothing to do with advocating the mutilation of children's bodies by chopping off girls' breasts... and rendering them sterile. They're two quite different things:''

*''One abuses children who can not give informed [[consent]] to '''sex''', and -''
*''The other abuses children who can not give informed consent to '''bodily experimentation'''.''

''They're two quite different things(!)''<ref>[https://youtu.be/YJaP5RANW00?t=1993 Steyn commentary from around 33.13]</ref></blockquote>

Steyn correctly identifies that social justice movements (if they are to have any integrity) can not hold two conflicting positions on the ability of minors to give [[consent]] in matters of bodily autonomy. Thus, he suspects, any re-appraisal of youth choice concerning gender-affirming surgeries will not only lead to re-appraisal of youth choice in the wider sexual arena, but will be supported by those ([[Pedophilia|pedophiles]], in his words) who can see, and take advantage of the fact that the topics are analogous.

One commentator on the HTOC Blog puts it this way:

<blockquote>''If that domino falls, then things are headed quickly toward a reexamination of pedophiles. It’s not politically correct to say that, and most trans people would be horrified by it (understandably), but there’s too much overlap in the substance of the issue for it not to be, even if actively unallied.''

''Ironically, it’s something conservatives are actually right about - though not for the reasons they think, and I certainly do not think conservatives are right about it, let alone anything else. The road of queer rights, and trans rights more specifically, does indeed eventually lead to a place where MAP’s will emerge as a contender for reexamination of their place in society as well.''

[...]

''Queer theory will inevitably lead us to a reexamination of the child and the child’s sexuality. It most certainly leads us to a reexamination of the ever contorted puritanical-degenerate horn dog dichotomy adolescents live in (being on the one hand highly sexual, and on the other hand increasingly deprived of that sexuality). If you talk about gay kids, trans kids, queer kids of any kind - you’re talking about kids, and sexuality. Not adults and sexuality, children and sexuality.''

''And the very existence of queer kids is going to force the issue - most notably trans-kids, whose very existence challenges our ideas of depriving youth of bodily autonomy. We cannot on the one hand teach bodily autonomy to protect against abuse, without also eventually confronting the reality that bodily autonomy includes the right to say “yes” and isn’t bodily autonomy if it’s under a command to only say “no”.''

''Furthermore, the more conservatives try to undo the gains made by queer people, under the guise of “protecting” children from “groomers”- a term they utterly misuse and abuse - eventually if you keep calling everyone a pedo - from the right or the left side of the equation - eventually that means people are going to have a long and hard look at pedophilia - just as it did when the worst thing you could be was queer or gay.''<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22157 Comment 1] and [https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22156 2].</ref></blockquote>

===''Associative''===

The associative method we identified in relation to the "gender-critical" ([[Wikipedia:TERF|TERF]]) media is often used alongside the theoretical/political rationale explained above, and can be seen in the [[Grooming|"groomer"]] panic of the early 2020s. Mainstream media outlets tend to veer towards this more simplistic method, although opinion journalists such as Tucker Carlson have attempted to explain the theory behind a "plan" to undermine the institution of American childhood by attacking language and concepts such as gender.

A recent informal investigation has identified many '''trans and non-binary''' people within the broader population of ''self-identifying'' MAPs - possibly as many as 7%.<ref>[https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/because-god-hates-us-or-is-dead-heres-90c#details Podcast - Herzog/Singal] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20220319054813/https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/80 archive]</ref>

==Dissent among MAPs and Trans people==

Some MAPs and trans-identified people prefer not to encourage the trend of [[medicalism|medicalization]] described at the start of this article, pointing out that provision of medical transitions is based on a diagnosis of ''pathology'' (gender dysphoria), and contend that trans people, like gays, represent normal human diversity, should not be pathologized or "expected to conform to gender stereotypes".

Some MAPs oppose minors' full autonomy over medical transitions on the basis that it (in their view) mutilates the bodies of children, and is invasive and permanent. Other MAPs have varying reservations about the philosophical compatibility of trans ideology as a whole, with liberation of [[boylove]] and minor attraction:

*They may see ''trans ideology'' as an extension of the war on masculine eros/the appeal of boys to men.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599986.htm How the 'left' checkmates the right - Sick Rose (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref> For a more general perspective on male extinction, see Andriette, 2002.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/andr_church.htm Castrating the Church: At root, the priest sex hysteria is about extinguishing the male, By Bill Andriette (''The Guide'', archived on Ipce.info)]</ref>
*They may see gender-transitioning children, not as a prelude to increasing agency, but as part of the "bourgeois and desexualized" protectionist gaze of western orthodoxy, and thus entirely compatible with [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] norms.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599996.htm Re: Transgender youth and attraction to minors - Errant (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref>

==Links==

*[https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Gill-Peterson+Histories+of+the+Transgender+Child Histories of the Transgender Child] - by [[Jules Gill-Peterson]]

*[[Wikipedia:Gender Queer|Gender Queer: A Memoir]] - a 2019 graphic memoir by Maia Kobabe, the author's exploration of gender identity and sexuality in adolescence

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]]
[[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Cyber Activism]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Queer Theory]]
[[Category:Debate]][[Category:Debating Points: Sociological]][[Category:Debating Points: Minor-Attracted]][[Category:Debating Points: Child/Minor]]
[[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]]
[[Category:Mental Health Industry]][[Category:History & Events: Moral controversies]]

Degeneracy

2023-07-25T15:33:01Z

Loli: clarify

[[File:Gagmans.png|thumb|The chronic effects of too much social media consumption]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Social degeneration|Degeneracy]]''' is a term used in various subjective contexts, most often as a shorthand for ungodly or impure acts, desire, ideology and identity. It is now most often heard within a modern American religious/right-wing/conservative context, but has been seen among adjacent [[feminism|feminists]].

Degeneracy refers to the promotion of acts deemed (within these moral frameworks) to be dirty, impure, and early evidence of [[Wikipedia:Societal collapse|civilizational failure]]. It was previously used by Nazis in reference to homosexuality, abstract and Jewish Art.<ref>[https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/nazis-degenerate-art-exhibition-of-1937.html Nazi's Degenerate Art Exhibition]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/777328 Goggin, M.-M. (1991). “Decent” vs. “Degenerate” Art: The National Socialist Case. Art Journal, 50(4), 84. doi:10.2307/777328 ]</ref>

The term is now even used by organizations such as [[Gays Against Groomers]] in reference to [[grooming]] concerns,<ref>[https://archive.ph/wip/xhZX6 Gettr: Gays Against Groomers], see also [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1542496096328507392 Twitter], [https://twitter.com/GAG_Colorado/status/1673054598972723200 2] [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1662283296108081152 3]</ref> in spite of the obvious irony of its previous use against [[homosexuality]].

The nature of this term, or at least its common usage, is highly subjective and varies according to which group is using it, whose framework or culture is being threatened by that which is labeled “degeneracy”. Thus, within a western social media context, it is typically used against groups deemed a threat to the aforementioned (American conservative) culture. This may include, but is not limited to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity|L]][[Homosexuality|G]][[Rainbow Revisionism|B]][[Validity Policing|T]], [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|transgender]] people, [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]], [[paraphilia|paraphiles]], other sexual minorities and their [[Ally|allies]], or any conflation thereof, in the counter-degeneracy narrative.

While ''degeneracy'' has no set meaning within western laws, those whose identities may be non-normative and/or conflict with [[Research: Recidivism and other offending figures|"sex" laws]] are often described as ''degenerates''.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:Terminology: Legal & Law Enforcement]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]]

Degeneracy

2023-07-18T15:42:51Z

Loli: fix

[[File:Gagmans.png|thumb|The chronic effects of too much social media consumption]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Social degeneration|Degeneracy]]''' is a term used in varying contexts, but most often a modern American religious/right-wing/conservative one, or by adjacent [[feminism|feminists]]. It refers to the promotion of acts deemed (within such framework) to be dirty, impure, and early evidence of [[Wikipedia:Societal collapse|civilizational failure]]. It was previously used by Nazis, for example, in reference to abstract or Jewish Art,<ref>[https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/nazis-degenerate-art-exhibition-of-1937.html Nazi's Degenerate Art Exhibition]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/777328 Goggin, M.-M. (1991). “Decent” vs. “Degenerate” Art: The National Socialist Case. Art Journal, 50(4), 84. doi:10.2307/777328 ]</ref> but is now used by organizations such as [[Gays Against Groomers]] in reference to [[grooming]] concerns<ref>[https://archive.ph/wip/xhZX6 Gettr: Gays Against Groomers], see also [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1542496096328507392 Twitter], [https://twitter.com/GAG_Colorado/status/1673054598972723200 2] [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1662283296108081152 3]</ref>, in spite of the fact the term could also be used against themselves (as it often was and sometimes is used against [[homosexuality]]).

As such, the nature of this term, or at least its common usage, is highly subjective and varies according to which group is using it, whose framework or culture is being threatened by that which is labeled “degeneracy”. Thus, within a western social media context, it is typically used against groups deemed a threat to the aforementioned (American conservative) culture. This may include, but is not limited to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity|L]][[Homosexuality|G]][[Rainbow Revisionism|B]][[Validity Policing|T]], [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|transgender]] people, [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]], [[paraphilia|paraphiles]], other sexual minorities and their [[Ally|allies]], or any conflation thereof, in the counter-degeneracy narrative.

While ''degeneracy'' has no set meaning within western laws, those whose identities may be non-normative and/or conflict with [[Research: Recidivism and other offending figures|"sex" laws]] are often described as ''degenerates''.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:Terminology: Legal & Law Enforcement]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]]

Degeneracy

2023-07-18T15:41:36Z

Loli:

[[File:Gagmans.png|thumb|The chronic effects of too much social media consumption]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Social degeneration|Degeneracy]]''' is a term used in varying contexts, but most often a modern American religious/right-wing/conservative one, or by adjacent [[feminism|feminists]]. It refers to the promotion of acts deemed (within such framework) to be dirty, impure, and early evidence of [[Wikipedia:Societal collapse|civilizational failure]]. It was previously used by Nazis, for example, in reference to abstract or Jewish Art,<ref>[https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/nazis-degenerate-art-exhibition-of-1937.html Nazi's Degenerate Art Exhibition]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/777328 Goggin, M.-M. (1991). “Decent” vs. “Degenerate” Art: The National Socialist Case. Art Journal, 50(4), 84. doi:10.2307/777328 ]</ref> but is now used by organizations such as [[Gays Against Groomers]] in reference to [[grooming]] concerns, in spite of the fact the term could also be used against themselves (as it often was and sometimes is used against [[homosexuality]]). .<ref>[https://archive.ph/wip/xhZX6 Gettr: Gays Against Groomers], see also [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1542496096328507392 Twitter], [https://twitter.com/GAG_Colorado/status/1673054598972723200 2] [https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1662283296108081152 3]</ref>

As such, the nature of this term, or at least its common usage, is highly subjective and varies according to which group is using it, whose framework or culture is being threatened by that which is labeled “degeneracy”. Thus, within a western social media context, it is typically used against groups deemed a threat to the aforementioned (American conservative) culture. This may include, but is not limited to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity|L]][[Homosexuality|G]][[Rainbow Revisionism|B]][[Validity Policing|T]], [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|transgender]] people, [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]], [[paraphilia|paraphiles]], other sexual minorities and their [[Ally|allies]], or any conflation thereof, in the counter-degeneracy narrative.

While ''degeneracy'' has no set meaning within western laws, those whose identities may be non-normative and/or conflict with [[Research: Recidivism and other offending figures|"sex" laws]] are often described as ''degenerates''.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Popular]][[Category:Terminology: Legal & Law Enforcement]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T14:28:27Z

Loli: clarification, spelling fix, add link

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong romantic and erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Before the emergence of girl love as a distinct identity (in reaction to the [[Moral_panic|increasing stigma of pedophilia]]), possibly girl love would not be treated as different from conventional heterosexuality as long as it did not otherwise violate social norms (such as a taboo on sexual relations outside of [[Youth-Adult_Marriage|marriage]]).

==Comparisons with boylove==

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincidence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, boylove and girl love are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Traditionally, the prospect of [[Youth-Adult_Marriage|marriage]] which may tie into already aforementioned point about pregnancy is another aspect in which a heterosexual girl love relationship differs from boylove.

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==Other languages and alternative terms==
* '''ロリコン''' (''rorikon'', i.e. [[lolicon]]) - sometimes used in colloquial Japanese to mean girl lover, with less stigma attached to the term than "pedophile". More strongly associated with anime and manga / otaku subcultures as attraction to 2D characters, particularly in the West.
* '''korephile''' - Although more often used specifically for [[Intergenerational Lesbianism|lesbian girl love]], semantically korephilia means simply girl love.

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]
*[[Lolicon]] - drawn material featuring little girls.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T14:26:59Z

Loli: split off section, as it deserves its own at this point

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong physical-erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Before the emergence of girl love as a distinct identity (in reaction to the [[Moral_panic|increasing stigma of pedophilia]]), possibly girl love would not be treated as different from conventional heterosexuality as long as it did not otherwise violate social norms (such as a taboo on sexual relations outside of [[Youth-Adult_Marriage|marriage]]).

==Comparisons with boylove==

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincedence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, boylove and girl love are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Traditionally, the prospect of marriage which may tie into already aforementioned point about pregnancy is another aspect in which a heterosexual girl love relationship differs from boylove.

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==Other languages and alternative terms==
* '''ロリコン''' (''rorikon'', i.e. [[lolicon]]) - sometimes used in colloquial Japanese to mean girl lover, with less stigma attached to the term than "pedophile". More strongly associated with anime and manga / otaku subcultures as attraction to 2D characters, particularly in the West.
* '''korephile''' - Although more often used specifically for [[Intergenerational Lesbianism|lesbian girl love]], semantically korephilia means simply girl love.

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]
*[[Lolicon]] - drawn material featuring little girls.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T14:25:39Z

Loli: addition + clarify

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong physical-erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Before the emergence of girl love as a distinct identity (in reaction to the [[Moral_panic|increasing stigma of pedophilia]]), possibly girl love would not be treated as different from conventional heterosexuality as long as it did not otherwise violate social norms (such as a taboo on sexual relations outside of [[Youth-Adult_Marriage|marriage]]).

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincedence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, boylove and girl love are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Traditionally, the prospect of marriage which may tie into already aforementioned point about pregnancy is another aspect in which a heterosexual girl love relationship differs from boylove.

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==Other languages and alternative terms==
* '''ロリコン''' (''rorikon'', i.e. [[lolicon]]) - sometimes used in colloquial Japanese to mean girl lover, with less stigma attached to the term than "pedophile". More strongly associated with anime and manga / otaku subcultures as attraction to 2D characters, particularly in the West.
* '''korephile''' - Although more often used specifically for [[Intergenerational Lesbianism|lesbian girl love]], semantically korephilia means simply girl love.

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]
*[[Lolicon]] - drawn material featuring little girls.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T14:14:44Z

Loli: remove unnecessary word

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong physical-erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincedence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, the two attractions are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==Other languages and alternative terms==
* '''ロリコン''' (''rorikon'', i.e. [[lolicon]]) - sometimes used in colloquial Japanese to mean girl lover, with less stigma attached to the term than "pedophile". More strongly associated with anime and manga / otaku subcultures as attraction to 2D characters, particularly in the West.
* '''korephile''' - Although more often used specifically for [[Intergenerational Lesbianism|lesbian girl love]], semantically korephilia means simply girl love.

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]
*[[Lolicon]] - drawn material featuring little girls.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T14:06:29Z

Loli: additions

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong physical-erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincedence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, the two attractions are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (indeed, some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==Other languages and alternative terms==
* '''ロリコン''' (''rorikon'', i.e. [[lolicon]]) - sometimes used in colloquial Japanese to mean girl lover, with less stigma attached to the term than "pedophile". More strongly associated with anime and manga / otaku subcultures as attraction to 2D characters, particularly in the West.
* '''korephile''' - Although more often used specifically for [[Intergenerational Lesbianism|lesbian girl love]], semantically korephilia means simply girl love.

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]
*[[Lolicon]] - drawn material featuring little girls.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Girllove

2023-07-18T13:48:13Z

Loli: improvement

__NOTOC__{{MAI}}'''Girllove''' is a strong physical-erotic attraction to [[girl]]s, and someone experiencing it may be identified as a girllover. "Girllover" is considered analogous to "[[boylove]]r" in that both label individuals primarily attracted to children or teenagers. Often, individuals wishing to refer to both boylovers and girllovers collectively (or to an individual who is attracted to both boys and girls) will use the ambiguous terms [[Minor Attracted Person]], [[Youthlove]]r, or [[Childlove]]r.

==As a social identity and movement==

The idea of girllove as an identity, goes back at least three decades - as seen in the title of [[Lawrence A. Stanley]]'s quarterly newsletter, ''[[Uncommon Desires]]'': “the voice of a politically conscious girl-love underground” in the late 80s.<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/images/UD_03.pdf Uncommon Desires 2 - 1989]</ref> It had even been mentioned ironically by Samuel McCracken in a 1979 Military Chaplain's Review - juxtaposing its implausibility against the very real [[boylove]] activism surrounding the [[Boston-Boise affair|Boston Sex Scandal]]. It is likely, however, that the less stylized "heterosexual pedophile" (sometimes shortened to "heteroped") predominated before then. Such was used by [[Paedophile Information Exchange|PIE]]'s [[David Joy]] in reference to the contemporary discourse among British Pedophiles, and [[Frits Bernard]], both in the 80s.<ref>[https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/secrets-of-the-pie-men-21-8-82/ Secrets of the PIE Men - Press Cutting from 1982]</ref><ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm Dr. Frits Bernard] (Autumn 1987). "The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement". Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. 1 (2): 35–45.</ref> [[Thomas O'Carroll]] also confirms that girllovers were rare and marginalized in the first wave and sometimes referred to as "hets" or "hetpeds" (see gallery).

Some people (such as the late [[David Riegel]]) believe that beyond the coincedence of having a child as the object of one's attraction, the two attractions are qualitatively different. Boylover proponents of this view point to the ability of an adult male to serve as a mentor and role model to a boy, in a sense teaching him "how to be a man," which they claim has no analogue in a girllove relationship. Also, the potential of impregnating a girl adds a dynamic to a sexual relationship which is not present for adult male boylovers.

Girllover detractors may respond that an adult male is equally able to serve as a mentor and role model to a girl and point to the fact that many childlovers find penetrative sex with children objectionable (indeed, some even find all sex objectionable), while girl lover proponents might add that girl love, excepting the age difference or specific age preference (hebe or pedophilic) is not essentially different from normal male heterosexuality, thus constituting a subset of it (some, pointing to [[Research:_Prevalence|prevalence]] and tendency to associate youthful and neotenic traits with feminine attractiveness may go as far as to claim it is an inherent part of it).

Others, however, point to the identical societal rejection of both attractions and the similar treatment of boylovers and girllovers in the mass media, the legislature and the popular consciousness as an indication that there is more in common between the two groups than there is different. There is a general agreement among many of the more important resources (such as [[Free Spirits]] and [[GirlChat]]) that when it comes to certain issues there is nothing to lose by working together. Thus there has always been some technical cooperation between administrations of various resources on all sides. An excellent example of this cooperation is [[LifeLine]], a crisis-intervention resource that serves both communities.

An example of such cooperation can be cited from the early days of Free Spirits. A well-known GL activist and attorney provided Free Spirits with legal advice and assistance as Free Spirits was being formed and organized. Free Spirits provided him with technical advice with respect to his hosting some of his resources on the Internet.

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Mcr.png|1979 mention
File:TocGL.png|[[Thomas O'Carroll]] explains further the move from Heterosexual Pedophile to Girllover
File:GLogo.png|A GLogo
</gallery>

==See also==

*[[GLogo]]
*[[Intergenerational Lesbianism]]
*[[Korephilia]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]] [[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]]
[[Category: Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]][[Category:Facts of life]]

Transgender youth and attraction to minors

2023-07-09T23:18:36Z

Loli: small clarification

__NOTOC__{{Template:adj}}[[File:Transrights.jpg|thumb|278px|Transgender rights, including the medical treatment of transgender youth, is one of the most contentious cultural topics in 2020s mainstream media, invoking as a tangent, youth agency, and potentially problematizing outdated concepts such as [[Moral panic|purity discourse]], [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]] and [[safeguarding]].]]
The topic of '''[[Wikipedia:Transgender youth|trans youth]]''', in particular, "[[Wikipedia:Transgender health care|gender-affirming healthcare]]", is an often referred to theme in the [[Wikipedia:Anti-gender movement|culture war]] between, on the one hand, a hostile ideological nexus of conservatives alongside ([[Wikipedia:TERF|trans exclusionary]]) "gender critical" [[Feminism|feminists]], and on the other, sympathetic modern social-justice orthodoxy, sometimes known as "wokism".

The trans-affirming social-justice alliance has often been linked with [[Minor Attracted Person|attraction to minors]] and the [[MAP Movement]] in the 2020s. This linkage takes two forms, ''theoretical'' (as described below), and ''associative'' - where the trans-ness or trans-inclusivity of [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] or vice versa is [[Grooming|weaponized by conservatives]] in political discourse. The controversies surrounding [[Allyn Walker]] and [[Jacob Breslow]] are striking examples of this weaponization, as are the editorials of gender-critical [[Wikipedia:TERF|(TERF)]] news outlets such as ''Reduxx'',<ref>[https://reduxx.info/youth-drag-queen-mentor-facing-child-pornography-charges/ One of many such examples cited by Anna Slatz and Reduxx]</ref> which focus on trans people whose lifestyles involve intersecting queer/invalidated expressions of desire, and thus may "sexually offend".

The topic of transgender youth is contentious among MAPs. Some youth liberationists, neutral and [[pro-c]] MAPs, have advocated that the ongoing [[Wikipedia:Gender dysphoria in children|medicalization]] of transgender youth must be endorsed (or at least accepted), on the basis that it would inevitably lead to the abandonment of [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]], and adoption of [[Research: Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes|evidence-based approaches]] with respect to the sexual agency of minors in general. Other MAPs and transgender people disagree with this outlook for varying ideological or personal reasons (see section on [[Transgender_youth_and_attraction_to_minors#Dissent_among_MAPs_and_Trans_people|''dissent'']], below). Either way, the topic of transgender youth is said to form an important part of the MAP Movement's [[War of adjacency|adjacency-enabled]] rise to public contention.

==Linkages==

As mentioned, earlier, there have been some attempts to link the affirmation of transgender-identified youth with minor attraction - sometimes embraced and sometimes rejected by MAPs, and generally rejected by LGBTQ+ people, except for a conservative/"gender-critical" (TERF) subset.

===''Theoretical''===

The GB News TV columnist Mark Steyn described the theoretical linkage between transgender youth and the pro-c MAP Movement on his show, 6 Oct, 2022:

<blockquote>'''STEYN''' (with ironic sarcasm): ''I should add, of course, that pedophilia has absolutely nothing to do with advocating the mutilation of children's bodies by chopping off girls' breasts... and rendering them sterile. They're two quite different things:''

*''One abuses children who can not give informed [[consent]] to '''sex''', and -''
*''The other abuses children who can not give informed consent to '''bodily experimentation'''.''

''They're two quite different things(!)''<ref>[https://youtu.be/YJaP5RANW00?t=1993 Steyn commentary from around 33.13]</ref></blockquote>

Steyn correctly identifies that social justice movements (if they are to have any integrity) can not hold two conflicting positions on the ability of minors to give [[consent]] in matters of bodily autonomy. Thus, he suspects, any re-appraisal of youth choice concerning gender-affirming surgeries will not only lead to re-appraisal of youth choice in the wider sexual arena, but will be supported by those ([[Pedophilia|pedophiles]], in his words) who can see, and take advantage of the fact that the topics are analogous.

One commentator on the HTOC Blog puts it this way:

<blockquote>''If that domino falls, then things are headed quickly toward a reexamination of pedophiles. It’s not politically correct to say that, and most trans people would be horrified by it (understandably), but there’s too much overlap in the substance of the issue for it not to be, even if actively unallied.''

''Ironically, it’s something conservatives are actually right about - though not for the reasons they think, and I certainly do not think conservatives are right about it, let alone anything else. The road of queer rights, and trans rights more specifically, does indeed eventually lead to a place where MAP’s will emerge as a contender for reexamination of their place in society as well.''

[...]

''Queer theory will inevitably lead us to a reexamination of the child and the child’s sexuality. It most certainly leads us to a reexamination of the ever contorted puritanical-degenerate horn dog dichotomy adolescents live in (being on the one hand highly sexual, and on the other hand increasingly deprived of that sexuality). If you talk about gay kids, trans kids, queer kids of any kind - you’re talking about kids, and sexuality. Not adults and sexuality, children and sexuality.''

''And the very existence of queer kids is going to force the issue - most notably trans-kids, whose very existence challenges our ideas of depriving youth of bodily autonomy. We cannot on the one hand teach bodily autonomy to protect against abuse, without also eventually confronting the reality that bodily autonomy includes the right to say “yes” and isn’t bodily autonomy if it’s under a command to only say “no”.''

''Furthermore, the more conservatives try to undo the gains made by queer people, under the guise of “protecting” children from “groomers”- a term they utterly misuse and abuse - eventually if you keep calling everyone a pedo - from the right or the left side of the equation - eventually that means people are going to have a long and hard look at pedophilia - just as it did when the worst thing you could be was queer or gay.''<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22157 Comment 1] and [https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22156 2].</ref></blockquote>

===''Associative''===

The associative method we identified in relation to the "gender-critical" ([[Wikipedia:TERF|TERF]]) media is often used alongside the theoretical/political rationale explained above, and can be seen in the [[Grooming|"groomer"]] panic of the early 2020s. Mainstream media outlets tend to veer towards this more simplistic method, although opinion journalists such as Tucker Carlson have attempted to explain the theory behind a "plan" to undermine the institution of American childhood by attacking language and concepts such as gender.

A recent informal investigation has identified many '''trans and non-binary''' people within the broader population of ''self-identifying'' MAPs - possibly as many as 7%.<ref>[https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/because-god-hates-us-or-is-dead-heres-90c#details Podcast - Herzog/Singal] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20220319054813/https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/80 archive]</ref>

==Dissent among MAPs and Trans people==

Some MAPs and trans-identified people prefer not to encourage the trend of [[medicalism|medicalization]] described at the start of this article, pointing out that medical provision of gender-affirming care is based on a diagnosis of ''pathology'' (gender dysphoria), and contend that trans people, like gays, represent normal human diversity, should not be pathologized or "expected to conform to gender stereotypes".

Some MAPs oppose minors' full autonomy over medical transitions on the basis that it (in their view) mutilates the bodies of children, and is invasive and permanent. Other MAPs have varying reservations about the philosophical compatibility of trans ideology as a whole, with liberation of [[boylove]] and minor attraction:

*They may see ''trans ideology'' as an extension of the war on masculine eros/the appeal of boys to men.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599986.htm How the 'left' checkmates the right - Sick Rose (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref> For a more general perspective on male extinction, see Andriette, 2002.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/andr_church.htm Castrating the Church: At root, the priest sex hysteria is about extinguishing the male, By Bill Andriette (''The Guide'', archived on Ipce.info)]</ref>
*They may see gender-transitioning children, not as a prelude to increasing agency, but as part of the "bourgeois and desexualized" protectionist gaze of western orthodoxy, and thus entirely compatible with [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] norms.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599996.htm Re: Transgender youth and attraction to minors - Errant (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref>

==Links==

*[https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Gill-Peterson+Histories+of+the+Transgender+Child Histories of the Transgender Child] - by [[Jules Gill-Peterson]]

*[[Wikipedia:Gender Queer|Gender Queer: A Memoir]] - a 2019 graphic memoir by Maia Kobabe, the author's exploration of gender identity and sexuality in adolescence

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]]
[[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Cyber Activism]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Queer Theory]]
[[Category:Debate]][[Category:Debating Points: Sociological]][[Category:Debating Points: Minor-Attracted]][[Category:Debating Points: Child/Minor]]
[[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]]
[[Category:Mental Health Industry]][[Category:History & Events: Moral controversies]]

Transgender youth and attraction to minors

2023-07-09T23:14:06Z

Loli: some rewordings

__NOTOC__{{Template:adj}}[[File:Transrights.jpg|thumb|278px|Transgender rights, including the medical treatment of transgender youth, is one of the most contentious cultural topics in 2020s mainstream media, invoking as a tangent, youth agency, and potentially problematizing outdated concepts such as [[Moral panic|purity discourse]], [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]] and [[safeguarding]].]]
The topic of '''[[Wikipedia:Transgender youth|trans youth]]''', in particular, "[[Wikipedia:Transgender health care|gender-affirming healthcare]]", is an often referred to theme in the [[Wikipedia:Anti-gender movement|culture war]] between, on the one hand, a hostile ideological nexus of conservatives/([[Wikipedia:TERF|trans exclusionary]]) "gender critical" [[Feminism|feminists]], and on the other, sympathetic modern social-justice orthodoxy, sometimes known as "wokism".

The trans-affirming social-justice alliance has often been linked with [[Minor Attracted Person|attraction to minors]] and the [[MAP Movement]] in the 2020s. This linkage takes two forms, ''theoretical'' (as described below), and ''associative'' - where the trans-ness or trans-inclusivity of [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] or vice versa is [[Grooming|weaponized by conservatives]] in political discourse. The controversies surrounding [[Allyn Walker]] and [[Jacob Breslow]] are striking examples of this weaponization, as are the editorials of gender-critical [[Wikipedia:TERF|(TERF)]] news outlets such as ''Reduxx'',<ref>[https://reduxx.info/youth-drag-queen-mentor-facing-child-pornography-charges/ One of many such examples cited by Anna Slatz and Reduxx]</ref> which focus on trans people whose lifestyles involve intersecting queer/invalidated expressions of desire, and thus may "sexually offend".

The topic of transgender youth is contentious among MAPs. Some youth liberationists, neutral and [[pro-c]] MAPs, have advocated that the ongoing [[Wikipedia:Gender dysphoria in children|medicalization]] of transgender youth must be endorsed (or at least accepted), on the basis that it would inevitably lead to the abandonment of [[Debate Guide: If we could only save one child|negative utilitarianism]], and adoption of [[Research: Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes|evidence-based approaches]] with respect to the sexual agency of minors in general. Other MAPs and transgender people disagree with this outlook for varying ideological or personal reasons (see section on [[Transgender_youth_and_attraction_to_minors#Dissent_among_MAPs_and_Trans_people|''dissent'']], below). Either way, the topic of transgender youth is said to form an important part of the MAP Movement's [[War of adjacency|adjacency-enabled]] rise to public contention.

==Linkages==

As mentioned, earlier, there have been some attempts to link the affirmation of transgender-identified youth with minor attraction - sometimes embraced and sometimes rejected by MAPs, and generally rejected by LGBTQ+ people, except for a conservative/"gender-critical" (TERF) subset.

===''Theoretical''===

The GB News TV columnist Mark Steyn described the theoretical linkage between transgender youth and the pro-c MAP Movement on his show, 6 Oct, 2022:

<blockquote>'''STEYN''' (with ironic sarcasm): ''I should add, of course, that pedophilia has absolutely nothing to do with advocating the mutilation of children's bodies by chopping off girls' breasts... and rendering them sterile. They're two quite different things:''

*''One abuses children who can not give informed [[consent]] to '''sex''', and -''
*''The other abuses children who can not give informed consent to '''bodily experimentation'''.''

''They're two quite different things(!)''<ref>[https://youtu.be/YJaP5RANW00?t=1993 Steyn commentary from around 33.13]</ref></blockquote>

Steyn correctly identifies that social justice movements (if they are to have any integrity) can not hold two conflicting positions on the ability of minors to give [[consent]] in matters of bodily autonomy. Thus, he suspects, any re-appraisal of youth choice concerning gender-affirming surgeries will not only lead to re-appraisal of youth choice in the wider sexual arena, but will be supported by those ([[Pedophilia|pedophiles]], in his words) who can see, and take advantage of the fact that the topics are analogous.

One commentator on the HTOC Blog puts it this way:

<blockquote>''If that domino falls, then things are headed quickly toward a reexamination of pedophiles. It’s not politically correct to say that, and most trans people would be horrified by it (understandably), but there’s too much overlap in the substance of the issue for it not to be, even if actively unallied.''

''Ironically, it’s something conservatives are actually right about - though not for the reasons they think, and I certainly do not think conservatives are right about it, let alone anything else. The road of queer rights, and trans rights more specifically, does indeed eventually lead to a place where MAP’s will emerge as a contender for reexamination of their place in society as well.''

[...]

''Queer theory will inevitably lead us to a reexamination of the child and the child’s sexuality. It most certainly leads us to a reexamination of the ever contorted puritanical-degenerate horn dog dichotomy adolescents live in (being on the one hand highly sexual, and on the other hand increasingly deprived of that sexuality). If you talk about gay kids, trans kids, queer kids of any kind - you’re talking about kids, and sexuality. Not adults and sexuality, children and sexuality.''

''And the very existence of queer kids is going to force the issue - most notably trans-kids, whose very existence challenges our ideas of depriving youth of bodily autonomy. We cannot on the one hand teach bodily autonomy to protect against abuse, without also eventually confronting the reality that bodily autonomy includes the right to say “yes” and isn’t bodily autonomy if it’s under a command to only say “no”.''

''Furthermore, the more conservatives try to undo the gains made by queer people, under the guise of “protecting” children from “groomers”- a term they utterly misuse and abuse - eventually if you keep calling everyone a pedo - from the right or the left side of the equation - eventually that means people are going to have a long and hard look at pedophilia - just as it did when the worst thing you could be was queer or gay.''<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22157 Comment 1] and [https://heretictoc.com/2022/10/21/jacob-and-karl-deserve-our-support/#comment-22156 2].</ref></blockquote>

===''Associative''===

The associative method we identified in relation to the "gender-critical" ([[Wikipedia:TERF|TERF]]) media is often used alongside the theoretical/political rationale explained above, and can be seen in the [[Grooming|"groomer"]] panic of the early 2020s. Mainstream media outlets tend to veer towards this more simplistic method, although opinion journalists such as Tucker Carlson have attempted to explain the theory behind a "plan" to undermine the institution of American childhood by attacking language and concepts such as gender.

A recent informal investigation has identified many '''trans and non-binary''' people within the broader population of ''self-identifying'' MAPs - possibly as many as 7%.<ref>[https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/because-god-hates-us-or-is-dead-heres-90c#details Podcast - Herzog/Singal] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20220319054813/https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/80 archive]</ref>

==Dissent among MAPs and Trans people==

Some MAPs and trans-identified people prefer not to encourage the trend of [[medicalism|medicalization]] described at the start of this article, pointing out that medical provision of gender-affirming care is based on a diagnosis of ''pathology'' (gender dysphoria), and contend that trans people, like gays, represent normal human diversity, should not be pathologized or "expected to conform to gender stereotypes".

Some MAPs oppose minors' full autonomy over medical transitions on the basis that it (in their view) mutilates the bodies of children, and is invasive and permanent. Other MAPs have varying reservations about the philosophical compatibility of trans ideology as a whole, with liberation of [[boylove]] and minor attraction:

*They may see ''trans ideology'' as an extension of the war on masculine eros/the appeal of boys to men.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599986.htm How the 'left' checkmates the right - Sick Rose (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref> For a more general perspective on male extinction, see Andriette, 2002.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/andr_church.htm Castrating the Church: At root, the priest sex hysteria is about extinguishing the male, By Bill Andriette (''The Guide'', archived on Ipce.info)]</ref>
*They may see gender-transitioning children, not as a prelude to increasing agency, but as part of the "bourgeois and desexualized" protectionist gaze of western orthodoxy, and thus entirely compatible with [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] norms.<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1599996.htm Re: Transgender youth and attraction to minors - Errant (BC), 26 Oct, 2022]</ref>

==Links==

*[https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Gill-Peterson+Histories+of+the+Transgender+Child Histories of the Transgender Child] - by [[Jules Gill-Peterson]]

*[[Wikipedia:Gender Queer|Gender Queer: A Memoir]] - a 2019 graphic memoir by Maia Kobabe, the author's exploration of gender identity and sexuality in adolescence

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]]
[[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Cyber Activism]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Queer Theory]]
[[Category:Debate]][[Category:Debating Points: Sociological]][[Category:Debating Points: Minor-Attracted]][[Category:Debating Points: Child/Minor]]
[[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]]
[[Category:Mental Health Industry]][[Category:History & Events: Moral controversies]]

Grooming

2023-07-09T15:58:14Z

Loli: fixed broken link

{{Template:Adj}}__NOTOC__'''Grooming''', much like [[safeguarding]], is a term now used principally<ref>[https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CCDH-HRC-Digital-Hate-Report-2022-single-pages.pdf "Digital Hate: Social Media's Role in Amplifying Dangerous Lies About LGBTQ+ people"]</ref> in conservative [[Wikipedia:Culture war|culture war]] politics to describe the way in which a corporation, institution, or (usually non-familial) adult indocrinates a minor or "child" with sexually "[[Degeneracy|degenerate]]" themes in order to make them susceptable to adult sexual advances. Commentators such as Christopher Rufo, Graham Linehan,<ref>[https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/groomer-new-lgbt-slur-incite-hatred-spark-violence-1585179 Inews: "How 'groomer', the dangerous new anti-LGBT slur from America, is taking hold in Britain"]</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-disney-groomer-harassment-lgbt-people-b2058272.html Independent: "GOP 'groomer' smears are sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence: 'This is going to lead to tragedy']</ref> and then later, [[James Lindsay]],<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/05/qanon-groomer-hawley-desantis-jackson/ WaPo: "The QAnon catchphrases that took over the Jackson hearings"]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-intellectual-dark-web-spawned-anti-lgbtq-groomer-panic Daily Beast: "How the Intellectual Dark Web Spawned 'Groomer' Panic"]</ref> Jaimee Michell ([[Gays Against Groomers]]<ref>[https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/12/04/gays-against-groomers-headline-anti-lgbtq-rally-ft-lauderdale?amp Advocate: Gays Against Groomers]</ref>) and [[Chaya Raichik]] (LibsOfTikTok)<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/libsoftiktoks-interviews-prove-shes-not-unbiased-shes-generating-anti-lgbtq-hate-opinion-1771049 Newsweek: Chaya Raichik]</ref> have typically used the term to refer to how young people are supposedly coached towards "postmodern", "queer" [[MAP Movement|pro-pedophile politics]]<ref name=abc>[https://abcnews.go.com/US/republicans-false-pedophilia-claims-attack-democrats-lgbtq-people/story?id=84344687 ABC: "Some Republicans use false 'pedophilia' claims to attack Democrats, LGBTQ people"]</ref><ref>[https://www.missionamerica.com/article/top-10-ways-america-is-being-groomed-to-normalize-pedophilia/ Mission America: Grooming]</ref> by the liberal media, [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|trans-affirmative]] sex educators and physicians who perform medical transitions. This activity was seen as early as 2020, but intensified in 2022. Mainstream Republicans such as Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene have gone on to use the term.<ref name="abc" /> As of 2022, 45 percent of likely Republican voters believe that "teachers and parents that support discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school are groomers."<ref>[https://forward.com/opinion/515868/libs-of-tiktok-is-fueling-a-pogrom-against-trans-youth/ "Libs of Tiktok is fueling a pogrom against trans youth". The Forward.]</ref>

==Historical background and deeper meaning==

Up until the late 10s,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7758292.stm BBC article on the origins of "Grooming"]</ref> the term was used in a politically nonpartisan manner and effectively meant flirtation with a person under the [[Age of Consent]], with a view to engaging in later "sexual" contact. According to FBI Alum, [[Kenneth Lanning]], the term has its origins in law-enforcement circles during the late-70s. It referred very specifically to non-violent "techniques" offender used to "seduce" their "victims".<ref>[https://calio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-evolution-of-grooming-concept-and-term.pdf Lanning, K. (2018). The Evolution of Grooming: Concept and Term. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517742046]</ref> In law (where it is applied), grooming typically refers to adults using the internet to solicit under-age persons or minors for sex. Sometimes referred to as "'''child grooming'''", theories of it's "exact form" and purportedly prepubescent and passive victims have been [[Research: Commercial and online sexual exploitation|challenged]], even by [[victimology|victimological]] [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] authors.

In ''either use'' (populist or professional/legal), "grooming" is a term employed primarily when there are:

*'''Conflicting values''' between primary and secondary socialization agents
*And where '''simple [[consent]]''' is present from the younger person (or partner)

==2020s Conservative and Radical Feminist usage, and examples==

[[File:Bookbans.png|thumb|left|Book bans in red states are clearly influenced by concerns surrounding grooming]]
As mentioned earlier, the term "grooming" is now largely used by conservatives and radical (i.e. conservative) feminists in reference to the "[[sexualization]]" or sexual indoctrination of children by what they see as morally [[Degeneracy|degenerate]] liberal elements in society, and [[corporate pedophilia|corporate pedophiles]]. A history of "grooming" as a [[moral panic]] follows in the section below.

In 2023, British woman [[Eleanor Williams]] was convicted at the age of 22 for perverting the course of justice, after she lied about being "trafficked", raped and beaten over many years by a non-existent "Asian grooming gang". Williams hit herself in the face with a hammer, gave herself black eyes and bruises across her body, and severed her finger before posting graphic photos of her injuries online. She became an icon for a popular right-wing "anti-groomer" campaign in the UK known as "Justice for Ellie", supported by [[Wikipedia:Tommy Robinson|Tommy Robinson]] and leading to multiple men being falsely accused and stigmatized in their communities, attempting to commit suicide. Williams was imprisoned for 8.5 years, and her case made national news.

===A history of grooming panic===

Following the earlier mentioned awareness-raising by Rufo and Lindsay, the most conspicuous supposed example of "grooming" has been [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hour]] - an allegedly politicized event in which children are read a story by a drag actor. This is sometimes conceptualized by supporters as "queer/drag pedagogy".<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621 Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood]</ref> [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|Medical transitions]] of minors are also an important battleground, with many anti-grooming conservatives referring to such operations as mutilation of children who "can't consent" to the procedures. In 2022, left-leaning social networking site, Reddit even banned the "groomer" slur from its platform<ref>[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/15/groomer-reddit-lgbtq-ban/ Pink News: Reddit bans "groomer" to protect LGBTQ]</ref>, soon to be followed by [[MAP visibility on Twitter|Twitter]], Meta (Facebook) and TikTok. Twitter then went on to eliminate heavily followed accounts such as [[Gays Against Groomers]],<ref>[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/22/groomer-twitter-hate-speech-slur/ Twitter says calling trans and non-binary people ‘groomer’ is hate speech - PinkNews]</ref><ref>[https://yournews.com/2022/07/30/2386653/jenna-ellis-gays-against-groomers-punished-by-twitter-over-groomer/ Jenna Ellis, Gays Against Groomers, Punished by Twitter Over “Groomer” Term]</ref> a suspected radical-[[Feminism|feminist]] media front group which has since been reinstated numerous times after being featured in the right-wing media. [[Minor Attracted Person|MAP]] related Twitter accounts on the other hand were indiscriminately culled after these events, in an attempt to conceal the growing [[MAP Movement|movement]]. The "groomer" term was later used in a graffiti attack.<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/maryland-man-charged-with-hate-crimes-after-allegedly-spray-painting-groomer-on-two-libraries/ar-AAYyoBr Maryland Man Charged With Hate Crimes After Allegedly Spray-Painting ‘Groomer’ On Two Libraries - CBS Baltimore]</ref> Groups of [[Wikipedia:Proud Boys|Proud Boys]] protesting Drag Queen Story Hours have become a common occurence, and a 2022 survey by Data for Progress found that 45% of likely Republican voters think that “teachers and parents that support discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school are groomers.”<ref>[https://forward.com/opinion/515868/libs-of-tiktok-is-fueling-a-pogrom-against-trans-youth/ Libs of Tiktok is fueling a pogrom against trans youth - Forward]</ref>

Other controversies center on "all ages" drag shows - often provocatively hosted in conservative states. "Backdoor Playhouse" in Tennesee is one such example.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11197833/Tennessee-Tech-slammed-putting-campus-drag-mocking-Christianity-kids-present.html Tennessee Tech is slammed for putting on campus drag show mocking Christianity with star dressed as a Catholic monk - while children handed him money - Daily Mail]</ref> In some instances, corporations such as Kering (owner of Balenciaga) have been the target, as they have promoted advertising campaigns seen to be "normalizing pedophilia".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128233053/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/style/balenciaga-campaign-controversy.html NYT: 2022 Balenciaga Bondage Bears controversy]</ref> The promotion of sex-toys to children has also been a point of concern for moral entrepreneurs such as Rufo (despite the fact that [[Research: Youth sexuality|it is likely many are already sexually active]]).<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicago-citys-largest-childrens-hospital-offers-kink-trans-friendly-sex-toys-for-minors In Chicago, the city's largest children's hospital offers 'kink' and 'trans-friendly' sex toys for minors]</ref> Libraries (both school and public) have become a "symbolic" battleground for feminist [[pedophobia|pedophobes]], erotophobes<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-library-books-banned-schools-rcna12986 Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries - NBC]</ref> and anti-LGBT conservatives, with numerous laws being passed and some legal actions in response.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/17/book-ban-restriction-access-lgbtq/ Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’]</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-move-school-librarian-fights-back-court-conservative-activists-rcna42800 In rare move, school librarian fights back in court against conservative activists]</ref>

Other examples are Republican "anti-grooming" campaigns against Disney,<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3262988-groomer-debate-inflames-gop-fight-over-florida-law/ TheHill: GOP Groomer Debate]</ref> attempts to negatively implicate the 2010 European early-years sex-education matrixes of the World Health Organization (by the British anti-statist citizen-journalism hub "UK Column" and others),<ref>[https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/children-targeted-by-who-standards-for-sexuality-education-in-europe/ Children targeted by WHO ‘Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe’ (Spectator Australia)]</ref><ref>[https://www.bzga-whocc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BZgA_Standards_English.pdf#page=40&zoom=auto,-253,847 WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe]</ref><ref>[https://stopworldcontrol.com/children/ Stop World Control: "Children must have sexual partners"]</ref> and modern moral outrages sparked by pole dancing children.<ref>[https://seeandselect.com/zexeboha/2022/08/04/central-pennsylvania-pride-fest-has-shirtless-instructor-teach-kids-to-pole-dance/ NYP - Pole Dancing]</ref><ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/pole-dancing-charlotte-pride-festival-libs-of-tiktok-1234585566/ Rolling Stone - Pole Dancers Are the Latest Target of Far-Right Grooming Panic]</ref><ref>[https://reduxx.info/pole-dancing-for-kids-pennsylvania-pride-event-scene-sparks-outrage/ Reduxx - Pole Dancing For Kids? Pennsylvania Pride Event Scene Sparks Outrage]</ref> Further examples are cited in our gallery below.

====Protests and lethal attacks====

In mid-2022, the non-lethal firebombing of a gay bar that advertised an all-ages drag event posed a warning of the danger of [[Pedophobia|pedophobic]] attacks to the gay community. Then in November, those fears were realized when a crazed gunman shot 5 dead in a Colorado Nightclub.<ref>[https://www.them.us/story/club-q-colorado-springs-lgbtq-nightclub-shooting-drag-brunch?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=syndication&mbid=synd_msn_rss At Least Five Dead and 18 Injured in LGBTQ+ Nightclub Shooting in Colorado]</ref> The nightclub had advertised an "all ages drag brunch" for the morning following the attack (see gallery). The killer's father later expressed relief that his son was seemingly not gay, in light of what he did.<ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/colorado-shooters-father-reacts-as-he-learns-son-killed-five-in-a-queer-club-8286863/ Indian Express: Phew, he's not gay!]</ref>

These events had followed prolonged campaigns of harrassment by [[Wikipedia:Proud Boys|Proud Boys]], an American patriotic group whose usual strategy is to turn up at [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hours]] and intimidate attendees.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/drag-lgbtq-rights-race-deconstructed-newsletter-reaj "Proud Boys crashed Drag Queen Story Hour at a local library. It was part of a wider movement". CNN.]</ref><ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyqj7/proud-boys-san-lorenzo-drag-queen-story-hour "Proud Boys Stormed a 'Drag Queen Story Hour' Event for Kids". Vice.]</ref><ref>[https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/06/27/sparks-nevada-drag-queen-story-hour-disrupted-by-armed-proud-boy/ "Sparks, Nevada drag queen story hour disrupted by armed Proud Boy". Los Angeles Blade.]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/drag-queen-story-hour.html "Drag Queen Story Hour Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash". The New York Times.]</ref><ref>[https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/8/16/attacks-lgbtq-community-amount-stochastic-terrorism "Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community Amount to Stochastic Terrorism". The Advocate]</ref> Neo Nazi elements have also shown up at rallies to protest "pedophilia" in modern society.<ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/neo-nazis-descended-on-a-drag-queen-story-hour-event-shouting-sieg-heil/ Neo-Nazis descended on a drag queen story hour event shouting “Sieg heil”]</ref>

===Gallery===

<gallery>
File:Lindsaygroomer.png|[[James Lindsay]] and ''Libs of Tik Tok'' were heavy influencers of this topic in the early 20s
File:Dqsh.jpg|Often cited example of [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hour]] "grooming"
File:559 - drag queen drag queen kids lgbt type news article screencap.jpg|The rise of all-ages drag performances is seen as very triggering by some Americans
File:Girlanddogs.png|Little girl with [[Wikipedia:Animal roleplay|pup play fetish dogs]], common "groomer" meme
File:FQo-G4gUcAI-kI7.jpg|OK, Groomer catchphrase. Graham Linehan and James Lindsay were known as pioneers of this term
File:Jan-van-Breda-01-Canal-parade.jpg|Award winning Dutch gay pride photo tweeted by right-wing Andy Ngô, fuelling American panic and "normalization" discourse.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/photo-of-child-with-men-in-bondage-gear-wins-award-from-dutch-pride-organizers Post Milennial: Dutch Pride Award for photo]</ref>
File:Groomers5.png|Recycled images from older pride marches show children being "sexualized"
File:Uhtler.png|More commonly used images
File:Kidspole.png|Images of children pole dancing for physical activity have caused some sex-hysterics to experience "psychological breakdowns" on social media
File:Pridepar.png|One of various examples cited by Jon Uhler (conspiracy theorist)<ref>[https://archive.ph/S01yc 2021 John Uhler blog]</ref>
File:FbyIxu-XoAANX91.jpg|This Instagram account caused controversy in 2022
File:FbyIxdUXkAEYP9r.jpg|Instagram account (continued)
File:FbyIxdWXgAE4Wig.jpg|Instagram account (continued)
File:Clubq1.png|Club Q's planned event roster for the morning of Sun 20 Nov, 2022. 5 shot dead as a result
File:Drag2.png|In 2023, Arkansas has taken steps to clamp down on drag performances<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/arkansas-drag-ban-is-the-cover-for-bigger-anti-lgbtq-attack-activists-say Daily Beast: Arkansas Drag Ban Is the Cover for Bigger Anti-LGBTQ Attack, Activists Say]</ref>
File:Gagillinois2.jpg|Circulated by [[Gays Against Groomers]]
File:FpVZRL-X0AENbeK.png|Religious provocation
File:79750A41-DFDE-4968-81E4-980A89F74633.jpeg|Alleged sponsorship of all-ages drag events, 2023
File:Dragst.jpg|Reduxx commentary<ref>[https://reduxx.info/rest-in-power-drag-queen-story-hour-uk-founder-fundraising-for-convicted-child-sex-offenders-funeral/ Reduxx commentary on fundraising for "convicted sex offender's" funeral]</ref>
File:D2CC9F93-BBB8-4991-B89E-68B06BAC982E.jpeg|Supposed event, in which children can play with sex toys - something an [[Free A Girl|anti-MAP charity]] has encouraged in the past
File:Paedfasc.jpg|An anti-"groomer" rally in 2023
File:Lindsa.png|A "coloring book" for children, cited as grooming by James Lindsay
File:Groomneds.png|Dutch TV used as an example
File:Reduxx.png|Radical/conservative [[Feminism|Feminist]] treatment of a Trans woman's involvement in a bill essentially removing a loophole encouraging [[Pedophobia|accusations of "pedophilia"]]
</gallery>

==As a technique (pre-2020s usage)==

The theorizing and imposition (on to individual "offender" histories) of a set grooming "technique" is itself reliant upon a theorizing and imposition of sexual ''intent'' in adult-minor interactions. According to [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] theorists, the process of grooming is itself a means to an end - the primary motive of the older partner being (unlike in "non-pathological" rapports) to obtain intimate access to the minor's body and genital anatomy.

As established above, it is claimed that "child grooming techniques" are pathological and unique to [[pedophilia|pedophiles]] or child sexual offenders. In reality, even these techniques' theorized forms are situational variants of known techniques, widely encouraged among adult peer groups and media. For example, the product description for a book aimed at same-age attracted heterosexuals claims that:

:''"This Book Will Get You Laid" takes the age-old dance between men and women and strips it down to its bare essentials - how to catch the eye of your chosen victim, sorry, loved one; how to make initial contact (or 'Moving in for the Kill'); foolproof mechanisms for persuading them to come back to your place; and, once there, how to make all their clothes fall off as if by accident."''<ref>http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Book-Will-Get-Laid/dp/1843171988</ref>

Much like the known, but often denied adult grooming techniques, the theorized forms of child grooming are said to be aimed at gaining the other partner's trust. Again, the implicit message is that bonding between human beings is simply a means to an end, and that the "less powerful" partner has to be deceived as to the true, or intended nature of the relationship. Additionally, it is claimed that the parents of a minor may be groomed and deceived, making them less likely to believe accusations.<ref name="Ending Offending Together">[http://www.safenetwork.co.nz/Downloads/Ending%20Offending%20Together.pdf Ending Offending Together]</ref>

[[Victimology|Victimologists]] have at different times theorized, but in no way established that the following techniques are ''particularly'' common in the "grooming" of minors by adults "for the purpose of abuse":

*Using electronic media to conceal their true identity and impersonate a minor
*Taking an undue interest in a minor (having a "special" friend)
*Giving gifts or money to the minor for no apparent reason
*Showing pornography to the minor
*Talking about sexual topics
*Hugging, kissing, or other physical contact even when the minor doesn't want this attention
*Talking to the minor about problems that would normally be discussed between people of the same age or more commonly, adults (e.g. marital problems)<ref name="Ending Offending Together"/><ref>[http://stopitnow.org/warnings.html Warning Signs About Child Sexual Abuse]</ref>
*Becoming good friends with the minor's parents in order to gain easy access to them (e.g. babysitting)
*Looking for opportunities to have time alone with the minor.
*Inviting the minor over for sleepovers or sleeping in the same room or bed with someone else's child.

===Internet prevention measures===

Internet technologies have made it possible to at least claim that minors are being protected from the "epidemic" of grooming.

In 2003, [[MSN]] implemented restrictions in their [[chat room]]s purportedly intended to help protect children from adults seeking sexual conversations with them. In 2005, [[Yahoo!]] chat rooms were investigated by the New York attorney general's office for allowing users to create rooms whose names suggested that they were being used for this purpose. That October, Yahoo! agreed to "implement policies and procedures designed to ensure" that such rooms would not be allowed.

Multiple programs have been developed, that help identify grooming and warn parents. The software studies chat room and other [[Instant messaging]] logs for activity that may identify grooming or other potentially suspicious activities. Some of the technologies have been adapted to social networking services and ISPs.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6265494.stm The 'anti-child grooming' website]</ref>

===Criticism of theories===

Our research review of [[Research: Commercial and online sexual exploitation|the internet, minors and "online victimization"]] documents some examples of where theories of grooming have been problematized, notably the presumed ages and levels of [[consent]] involved.

===Gallery===

<gallery>
File:MAPSchool.png|Humor meme
Grooming2.png|Deconstruction of logic
File:GroomingReworked.png|Comparing grooming of adults to "children"
File:Groomingncmec.png|How banal activities with "children" (teens) are reinterpreted
</gallery>

===Legal examples===

====United Kingdom====

A person aged 18 or over (A) commits an offence if—

(a) A has met or communicated with another person (B) on at least two occasions and subsequently—

::(i) A intentionally meets B,

::(ii) A travels with the intention of meeting B in any part of the world or arranges to meet B in any part of the world, or

::(iii) B travels with the intention of meeting A in any part of the world,

(b) A intends to do anything to or in respect of B, during or after the meeting mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) to (iii) and in any part of the world, which if done will involve the commission by A of a relevant offence,

(c) B is under 16, and

(d) A does not reasonably believe that B is 16 or over.

==External links==

*[[Wikipedia:LGBT grooming conspiracy theory|Wikipedia article]] - Covers "grooming" as a conspiracy theory and introduces commentary from LGBT sympathizers. See also [[Wikipedia:Anti-LGBT_rhetoric#Recruitment|Gay Recruitment]] for the long-standing anti-gay theory. See also [[Wikipedia: Drag panic|Drag panic]].
*[[Wikipedia:Child_grooming|Wikipedia article on Child Grooming]] - May contain extra legal information about the original concept.
*[https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/twitter-should-follow-reddits-lead-and-take-action-against-groomer-smear-inciting-anti Twitter should follow Reddit’s lead and take action against the “groomer” smear inciting anti-LGBTQ harassment] - From ''Media Matters'' - a liberal group who encourage [[censorship]].

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: British]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Law/Crime: Crime Types]]

Grooming

2023-07-09T15:53:59Z

Loli: the term "unironically" is unnecessary and unprofessional in this context

{{Template:Adj}}__NOTOC__'''Grooming''', much like [[safeguarding]], is a term now used principally<ref>[https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CCDH-HRC-Digital-Hate-Report-2022-single-pages.pdf "Digital Hate: Social Media's Role in Amplifying Dangerous Lies About LGBTQ+ people"]</ref> in conservative [[Wikipedia:Culture war|culture war]] politics to describe the way in which a corporation, institution, or (usually non-familial) adult indocrinates a minor or "child" with sexually "[[Degeneracy|degenerate]]" themes in order to make them susceptable to adult sexual advances. Commentators such as Christopher Rufo, Graham Linehan,<ref>[https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/groomer-new-lgbt-slur-incite-hatred-spark-violence-1585179 Inews: "How 'groomer', the dangerous new anti-LGBT slur from America, is taking hold in Britain"]</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-disney-groomer-harassment-lgbt-people-b2058272.html Independent: "GOP 'groomer' smears are sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence: 'This is going to lead to tragedy']</ref> and then later, [[James Lindsay]],<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/05/qanon-groomer-hawley-desantis-jackson/ WaPo: "The QAnon catchphrases that took over the Jackson hearings"]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-intellectual-dark-web-spawned-anti-lgbtq-groomer-panic Daily Beast: "How the Intellectual Dark Web Spawned 'Groomer' Panic"]</ref> Jaimee Michell ([[Gays Against Groomers]]<ref>[https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/12/04/gays-against-groomers-headline-anti-lgbtq-rally-ft-lauderdale?amp Advocate: Gays Against Groomers]</ref>) and [[Chaya Raichik]] (LibsOfTikTok)<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/libsoftiktoks-interviews-prove-shes-not-unbiased-shes-generating-anti-lgbtq-hate-opinion-1771049 Newsweek: Chaya Raichik]</ref> have typically used the term to refer to how young people are supposedly coached towards "postmodern", "queer" [[MAP Movement|pro-pedophile politics]]<ref name=abc>[https://abcnews.go.com/US/republicans-false-pedophilia-claims-attack-democrats-lgbtq-people/story?id=84344687 ABC: "Some Republicans use false 'pedophilia' claims to attack Democrats, LGBTQ people"]</ref><ref>[https://www.missionamerica.com/article/top-10-ways-america-is-being-groomed-to-normalize-pedophilia/ Mission America: Grooming]</ref> by the liberal media, [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|trans-affirmative]] sex educators and physicians who perform medical transitions. This activity was seen as early as 2020, but intensified in 2022. Mainstream Republicans such as Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene have gone on to use the term.<ref name="abc" /> As of 2022, 45 percent of likely Republican voters believe that "teachers and parents that support discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school are groomers."<ref>[https://forward.com/opinion/515868/libs-of-tiktok-is-fueling-a-pogrom-against-trans-youth/ "Libs of Tiktok is fueling a pogrom against trans youth". The Forward.]</ref>

==Historical background and deeper meaning==

Up until the late 10s,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7758292.stm BBC article on the origins of "Grooming"]</ref> the term was used in a politically nonpartisan manner and effectively meant flirtation with a person under the [[Age of Consent]], with a view to engaging in later "sexual" contact. According to FBI Alum, [[Kenneth Lanning]], the term has its origins in law-enforcement circles during the late-70s. It referred very specifically to non-violent "techniques" offender used to "seduce" their "victims".<ref>[https://calio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-evolution-of-grooming-concept-and-term.pdf Lanning, K. (2018). The Evolution of Grooming: Concept and Term. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517742046]</ref> In law (where it is applied), grooming typically refers to adults using the internet to solicit under-age persons or minors for sex. Sometimes referred to as "'''child grooming'''", theories of it's "exact form" and purportedly prepubescent and passive victims have been [[Research: Commercial and online sexual exploitation|challenged]], even by [[victimology|victimological]] [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] authors.

In ''either use'' (populist or professional/legal), "grooming" is a term employed primarily when there are:

*'''Conflicting values''' between primary and secondary socialization agents
*And where '''simple [[consent]]''' is present from the younger person (or partner)

==2020s Conservative and Radical Feminist usage, and examples==

[[File:Bookbans.png|thumb|left|Book bans in red states are clearly influenced by concerns surrounding grooming]]
As mentioned earlier, the term "grooming" is now largely used by conservatives and radical (i.e. conservative) feminists in reference to the "[[sexualization]]" or sexual indoctrination of children by what they see as morally [[Degeneracy|degenerate]] liberal elements in society, and [[corporate pedophilia|corporate pedophiles]]. A history of "grooming" as a [[moral panic]] follows in the section below.

In 2023, British woman [[Eleanor Williams]] was convicted at the age of 22 for perverting the course of justice, after she lied about being "trafficked", raped and beaten over many years by a non-existent "Asian grooming gang". Williams hit herself in the face with a hammer, gave herself black eyes and bruises across her body, and severed her finger before posting graphic photos of her injuries online. She became an icon for a popular right-wing "anti-groomer" campaign in the UK known as "Justice for Ellie", supported by [[Wikipedia:Tommy Robinson|Tommy Robinson]] and leading to multiple men being falsely accused and stigmatized in their communities, attempting to commit suicide. Williams was imprisoned for 8.5 years, and her case made national news.

===A history of grooming panic===

Following the earlier mentioned awareness-raising by Rufo and Lindsay, the most conspicuous supposed example of "grooming" has been [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hour]] - an allegedly politicized event in which children are read a story by a drag actor. This is sometimes conceptualized by supporters as "queer/drag pedagogy".<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621 Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood]</ref> [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|Medical transitions]] of minors are also an important battleground, with many anti-grooming conservatives referring to such operations as mutilation of children who "can't consent" to the procedures. In 2022, left-leaning social networking site, Reddit even banned the "groomer" slur from its platform<ref>[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/15/groomer-reddit-lgbtq-ban/ Pink News: Reddit bans "groomer" to protect LGBTQ]</ref>, soon to be followed by [[MAP visibility on Twitter|Twitter]], Meta (Facebook) and TikTok. Twitter then went on to eliminate heavily followed accounts such as [[Gays Against Groomers]],<ref>[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/22/groomer-twitter-hate-speech-slur/ Twitter says calling trans and non-binary people ‘groomer’ is hate speech - PinkNews]</ref><ref>[https://yournews.com/2022/07/30/2386653/jenna-ellis-gays-against-groomers-punished-by-twitter-over-groomer/ Jenna Ellis, Gays Against Groomers, Punished by Twitter Over “Groomer” Term]</ref> a suspected radical-[[Feminism|feminist]] media front group which has since been reinstated numerous times after being featured in the right-wing media. [[Minor Attracted Person|MAP]] related Twitter accounts on the other hand were indiscriminately culled after these events, in an attempt to conceal the growing [[MAP Movement|movement]]. The "groomer" term was later used in a graffiti attack.<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/maryland-man-charged-with-hate-crimes-after-allegedly-spray-painting-groomer-on-two-libraries/ar-AAYyoBr Maryland Man Charged With Hate Crimes After Allegedly Spray-Painting ‘Groomer’ On Two Libraries - CBS Baltimore]</ref> Groups of [[Wikipedia:Proud Boys|Proud Boys]] protesting Drag Queen Story Hours have become a common occurence, and a 2022 survey by Data for Progress found that 45% of likely Republican voters think that “teachers and parents that support discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school are groomers.”<ref>[https://forward.com/opinion/515868/libs-of-tiktok-is-fueling-a-pogrom-against-trans-youth/ Libs of Tiktok is fueling a pogrom against trans youth - Forward]</ref>

Other controversies center on "all ages" drag shows - often provocatively hosted in conservative states. "Backdoor Playhouse" in Tennesee is one such example.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11197833/Tennessee-Tech-slammed-putting-campus-drag-mocking-Christianity-kids-present.html Tennessee Tech is slammed for putting on campus drag show mocking Christianity with star dressed as a Catholic monk - while children handed him money - Daily Mail]</ref> In some instances, corporations such as Kering (owner of Balenciaga) have been the target, as they have promoted advertising campaigns seen to be "normalizing pedophilia".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128233053/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/style/balenciaga-campaign-controversy.html NYT: 2022 Balenciaga Bondage Bears controversy]</ref> The promotion of sex-toys to children has also been a point of concern for moral entrepreneurs such as Rufo (despite the fact that [[Research: Youth sexuality|it is likely many are already sexually active]).<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicago-citys-largest-childrens-hospital-offers-kink-trans-friendly-sex-toys-for-minors In Chicago, the city's largest children's hospital offers 'kink' and 'trans-friendly' sex toys for minors]</ref> Libraries (both school and public) have become a "symbolic" battleground for feminist [[pedophobia|pedophobes]], erotophobes<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-library-books-banned-schools-rcna12986 Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries - NBC]</ref> and anti-LGBT conservatives, with numerous laws being passed and some legal actions in response.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/17/book-ban-restriction-access-lgbtq/ Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’]</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-move-school-librarian-fights-back-court-conservative-activists-rcna42800 In rare move, school librarian fights back in court against conservative activists]</ref>

Other examples are Republican "anti-grooming" campaigns against Disney,<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3262988-groomer-debate-inflames-gop-fight-over-florida-law/ TheHill: GOP Groomer Debate]</ref> attempts to negatively implicate the 2010 European early-years sex-education matrixes of the World Health Organization (by the British anti-statist citizen-journalism hub "UK Column" and others),<ref>[https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/children-targeted-by-who-standards-for-sexuality-education-in-europe/ Children targeted by WHO ‘Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe’ (Spectator Australia)]</ref><ref>[https://www.bzga-whocc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BZgA_Standards_English.pdf#page=40&zoom=auto,-253,847 WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe]</ref><ref>[https://stopworldcontrol.com/children/ Stop World Control: "Children must have sexual partners"]</ref> and modern moral outrages sparked by pole dancing children.<ref>[https://seeandselect.com/zexeboha/2022/08/04/central-pennsylvania-pride-fest-has-shirtless-instructor-teach-kids-to-pole-dance/ NYP - Pole Dancing]</ref><ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/pole-dancing-charlotte-pride-festival-libs-of-tiktok-1234585566/ Rolling Stone - Pole Dancers Are the Latest Target of Far-Right Grooming Panic]</ref><ref>[https://reduxx.info/pole-dancing-for-kids-pennsylvania-pride-event-scene-sparks-outrage/ Reduxx - Pole Dancing For Kids? Pennsylvania Pride Event Scene Sparks Outrage]</ref> Further examples are cited in our gallery below.

====Protests and lethal attacks====

In mid-2022, the non-lethal firebombing of a gay bar that advertised an all-ages drag event posed a warning of the danger of [[Pedophobia|pedophobic]] attacks to the gay community. Then in November, those fears were realized when a crazed gunman shot 5 dead in a Colorado Nightclub.<ref>[https://www.them.us/story/club-q-colorado-springs-lgbtq-nightclub-shooting-drag-brunch?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=syndication&mbid=synd_msn_rss At Least Five Dead and 18 Injured in LGBTQ+ Nightclub Shooting in Colorado]</ref> The nightclub had advertised an "all ages drag brunch" for the morning following the attack (see gallery). The killer's father later expressed relief that his son was seemingly not gay, in light of what he did.<ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/colorado-shooters-father-reacts-as-he-learns-son-killed-five-in-a-queer-club-8286863/ Indian Express: Phew, he's not gay!]</ref>

These events had followed prolonged campaigns of harrassment by [[Wikipedia:Proud Boys|Proud Boys]], an American patriotic group whose usual strategy is to turn up at [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hours]] and intimidate attendees.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/drag-lgbtq-rights-race-deconstructed-newsletter-reaj "Proud Boys crashed Drag Queen Story Hour at a local library. It was part of a wider movement". CNN.]</ref><ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyqj7/proud-boys-san-lorenzo-drag-queen-story-hour "Proud Boys Stormed a 'Drag Queen Story Hour' Event for Kids". Vice.]</ref><ref>[https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/06/27/sparks-nevada-drag-queen-story-hour-disrupted-by-armed-proud-boy/ "Sparks, Nevada drag queen story hour disrupted by armed Proud Boy". Los Angeles Blade.]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/drag-queen-story-hour.html "Drag Queen Story Hour Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash". The New York Times.]</ref><ref>[https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/8/16/attacks-lgbtq-community-amount-stochastic-terrorism "Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community Amount to Stochastic Terrorism". The Advocate]</ref> Neo Nazi elements have also shown up at rallies to protest "pedophilia" in modern society.<ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/neo-nazis-descended-on-a-drag-queen-story-hour-event-shouting-sieg-heil/ Neo-Nazis descended on a drag queen story hour event shouting “Sieg heil”]</ref>

===Gallery===

<gallery>
File:Lindsaygroomer.png|[[James Lindsay]] and ''Libs of Tik Tok'' were heavy influencers of this topic in the early 20s
File:Dqsh.jpg|Often cited example of [[Wikipedia:Drag Queen Story Hour|Drag Queen Story Hour]] "grooming"
File:559 - drag queen drag queen kids lgbt type news article screencap.jpg|The rise of all-ages drag performances is seen as very triggering by some Americans
File:Girlanddogs.png|Little girl with [[Wikipedia:Animal roleplay|pup play fetish dogs]], common "groomer" meme
File:FQo-G4gUcAI-kI7.jpg|OK, Groomer catchphrase. Graham Linehan and James Lindsay were known as pioneers of this term
File:Jan-van-Breda-01-Canal-parade.jpg|Award winning Dutch gay pride photo tweeted by right-wing Andy Ngô, fuelling American panic and "normalization" discourse.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/photo-of-child-with-men-in-bondage-gear-wins-award-from-dutch-pride-organizers Post Milennial: Dutch Pride Award for photo]</ref>
File:Groomers5.png|Recycled images from older pride marches show children being "sexualized"
File:Uhtler.png|More commonly used images
File:Kidspole.png|Images of children pole dancing for physical activity have caused some sex-hysterics to experience "psychological breakdowns" on social media
File:Pridepar.png|One of various examples cited by Jon Uhler (conspiracy theorist)<ref>[https://archive.ph/S01yc 2021 John Uhler blog]</ref>
File:FbyIxu-XoAANX91.jpg|This Instagram account caused controversy in 2022
File:FbyIxdUXkAEYP9r.jpg|Instagram account (continued)
File:FbyIxdWXgAE4Wig.jpg|Instagram account (continued)
File:Clubq1.png|Club Q's planned event roster for the morning of Sun 20 Nov, 2022. 5 shot dead as a result
File:Drag2.png|In 2023, Arkansas has taken steps to clamp down on drag performances<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/arkansas-drag-ban-is-the-cover-for-bigger-anti-lgbtq-attack-activists-say Daily Beast: Arkansas Drag Ban Is the Cover for Bigger Anti-LGBTQ Attack, Activists Say]</ref>
File:Gagillinois2.jpg|Circulated by [[Gays Against Groomers]]
File:FpVZRL-X0AENbeK.png|Religious provocation
File:79750A41-DFDE-4968-81E4-980A89F74633.jpeg|Alleged sponsorship of all-ages drag events, 2023
File:Dragst.jpg|Reduxx commentary<ref>[https://reduxx.info/rest-in-power-drag-queen-story-hour-uk-founder-fundraising-for-convicted-child-sex-offenders-funeral/ Reduxx commentary on fundraising for "convicted sex offender's" funeral]</ref>
File:D2CC9F93-BBB8-4991-B89E-68B06BAC982E.jpeg|Supposed event, in which children can play with sex toys - something an [[Free A Girl|anti-MAP charity]] has encouraged in the past
File:Paedfasc.jpg|An anti-"groomer" rally in 2023
File:Lindsa.png|A "coloring book" for children, cited as grooming by James Lindsay
File:Groomneds.png|Dutch TV used as an example
File:Reduxx.png|Radical/conservative [[Feminism|Feminist]] treatment of a Trans woman's involvement in a bill essentially removing a loophole encouraging [[Pedophobia|accusations of "pedophilia"]]
</gallery>

==As a technique (pre-2020s usage)==

The theorizing and imposition (on to individual "offender" histories) of a set grooming "technique" is itself reliant upon a theorizing and imposition of sexual ''intent'' in adult-minor interactions. According to [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]] theorists, the process of grooming is itself a means to an end - the primary motive of the older partner being (unlike in "non-pathological" rapports) to obtain intimate access to the minor's body and genital anatomy.

As established above, it is claimed that "child grooming techniques" are pathological and unique to [[pedophilia|pedophiles]] or child sexual offenders. In reality, even these techniques' theorized forms are situational variants of known techniques, widely encouraged among adult peer groups and media. For example, the product description for a book aimed at same-age attracted heterosexuals claims that:

:''"This Book Will Get You Laid" takes the age-old dance between men and women and strips it down to its bare essentials - how to catch the eye of your chosen victim, sorry, loved one; how to make initial contact (or 'Moving in for the Kill'); foolproof mechanisms for persuading them to come back to your place; and, once there, how to make all their clothes fall off as if by accident."''<ref>http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Book-Will-Get-Laid/dp/1843171988</ref>

Much like the known, but often denied adult grooming techniques, the theorized forms of child grooming are said to be aimed at gaining the other partner's trust. Again, the implicit message is that bonding between human beings is simply a means to an end, and that the "less powerful" partner has to be deceived as to the true, or intended nature of the relationship. Additionally, it is claimed that the parents of a minor may be groomed and deceived, making them less likely to believe accusations.<ref name="Ending Offending Together">[http://www.safenetwork.co.nz/Downloads/Ending%20Offending%20Together.pdf Ending Offending Together]</ref>

[[Victimology|Victimologists]] have at different times theorized, but in no way established that the following techniques are ''particularly'' common in the "grooming" of minors by adults "for the purpose of abuse":

*Using electronic media to conceal their true identity and impersonate a minor
*Taking an undue interest in a minor (having a "special" friend)
*Giving gifts or money to the minor for no apparent reason
*Showing pornography to the minor
*Talking about sexual topics
*Hugging, kissing, or other physical contact even when the minor doesn't want this attention
*Talking to the minor about problems that would normally be discussed between people of the same age or more commonly, adults (e.g. marital problems)<ref name="Ending Offending Together"/><ref>[http://stopitnow.org/warnings.html Warning Signs About Child Sexual Abuse]</ref>
*Becoming good friends with the minor's parents in order to gain easy access to them (e.g. babysitting)
*Looking for opportunities to have time alone with the minor.
*Inviting the minor over for sleepovers or sleeping in the same room or bed with someone else's child.

===Internet prevention measures===

Internet technologies have made it possible to at least claim that minors are being protected from the "epidemic" of grooming.

In 2003, [[MSN]] implemented restrictions in their [[chat room]]s purportedly intended to help protect children from adults seeking sexual conversations with them. In 2005, [[Yahoo!]] chat rooms were investigated by the New York attorney general's office for allowing users to create rooms whose names suggested that they were being used for this purpose. That October, Yahoo! agreed to "implement policies and procedures designed to ensure" that such rooms would not be allowed.

Multiple programs have been developed, that help identify grooming and warn parents. The software studies chat room and other [[Instant messaging]] logs for activity that may identify grooming or other potentially suspicious activities. Some of the technologies have been adapted to social networking services and ISPs.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6265494.stm The 'anti-child grooming' website]</ref>

===Criticism of theories===

Our research review of [[Research: Commercial and online sexual exploitation|the internet, minors and "online victimization"]] documents some examples of where theories of grooming have been problematized, notably the presumed ages and levels of [[consent]] involved.

===Gallery===

<gallery>
File:MAPSchool.png|Humor meme
Grooming2.png|Deconstruction of logic
File:GroomingReworked.png|Comparing grooming of adults to "children"
File:Groomingncmec.png|How banal activities with "children" (teens) are reinterpreted
</gallery>

===Legal examples===

====United Kingdom====

A person aged 18 or over (A) commits an offence if—

(a) A has met or communicated with another person (B) on at least two occasions and subsequently—

::(i) A intentionally meets B,

::(ii) A travels with the intention of meeting B in any part of the world or arranges to meet B in any part of the world, or

::(iii) B travels with the intention of meeting A in any part of the world,

(b) A intends to do anything to or in respect of B, during or after the meeting mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) to (iii) and in any part of the world, which if done will involve the commission by A of a relevant offence,

(c) B is under 16, and

(d) A does not reasonably believe that B is 16 or over.

==External links==

*[[Wikipedia:LGBT grooming conspiracy theory|Wikipedia article]] - Covers "grooming" as a conspiracy theory and introduces commentary from LGBT sympathizers. See also [[Wikipedia:Anti-LGBT_rhetoric#Recruitment|Gay Recruitment]] for the long-standing anti-gay theory. See also [[Wikipedia: Drag panic|Drag panic]].
*[[Wikipedia:Child_grooming|Wikipedia article on Child Grooming]] - May contain extra legal information about the original concept.
*[https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/twitter-should-follow-reddits-lead-and-take-action-against-groomer-smear-inciting-anti Twitter should follow Reddit’s lead and take action against the “groomer” smear inciting anti-LGBTQ harassment] - From ''Media Matters'' - a liberal group who encourage [[censorship]].

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: British]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Law/Crime: Crime Types]]

Cub

2023-07-07T01:42:08Z

Loli: fix

[[File:Cub_Loli.jpg|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (girl, eastern style)<ref>Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463</ref>]]__NOTOC__[[File:Dandi.png|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (boy, patreon.com/Dandi)]]__NOTOC__'''Cub''' is a type of [[Wikipedia:Furry fandom|furry]] art ([[Wikipedia:Yiff|pornographic]] or not) featuring a [[child]]like anthropomorphic animal (cub), often in a sexualized situation. Cub porn can take many forms: drawings, stories, audio, comics, animations and so on. There are communities focused on cub, and they are often shunned by the rest of the furry fandom due to this kind of media being too close to "[[pedophilia]]".

Due to being cartoon animals, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is a cub and what is not. A real animal, such as a cat, is an adult at the age of four, but cubs often act like human children at that age. Plus, a character can be an adult, but retain childlike features for cuteness, such as pokémon and digimon. This has led to speculation about what is considered cub and what is not.

==Bans==

Sites like ''Fur Affinity'' have banned cub porn (specifically, Fur Affinity banned cub porn in November 24th, 2010<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity bans cub]</ref>) and have tried to regulate it in various ways, some ways more popular than others. One of them, set to take effect at the end of June 2023, is a clarification in the acceptable upload policy to explicitly ban characters that have childlike proportions, which bans many kinds of pokémon and digimon, if they feature in sexual situations, even if the character is of age (a pokémon can spend it’s entire life in it’s first evolutionary stage and digimon can alternate forms). The new rule has caused outcry.<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034 Fur Affinity backlash]</ref>

Another site, ''Sofurry'', banned cub porn as well, but has not made such drastic changes to their policy, preferring to rely on common sense, rather than proportions.

In 2010, Fur Affinity user Cubprotest reported Fur Affinity to Alertpay, arguing that Fur Affinity was hosting pictures that could be construed as child porn. Alertpay then withheld the donations due to Fur Affinity until the site banned such content. In November 24th, 2010, Fur Affinity banned cub porn. The then administrator, Pinkuh, left her role, as she found it unacceptable to ban fantasy characters. Sofurry banned cub porn<ref>[https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129 Sofurry ban]</ref> in March 2018 due to it’s head administrator, Toumal, fearing that a change in the way the law was interpreted could cause him legal trouble for allowing such content in his site. Another furry art site, ''Weasyl'', never allowed such content.

The cub porn ban on Fur Affinity caused a surge in ''Inkbunny''’s popularity. Inkbunny is a site started by Starling,<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/starling Starling on Inkbunny]</ref> who featured in the only Western printed pornographic cub-centered comic, ''Softpaw Magazine''.<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Softpaw_Magazine Softpaw Magazine]</ref> Inkbunny allows cub porn to this day, 13 years after it’s launch. With the new rulings on Fur Affinity, Inkbunny experienced another popularity surge in 2023.

==MAP community==

Due to cubs not being children, but resembling them in many ways, many [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] cherish such content. There is a sizeable number of open MAPs on ''Inkbunny'', using the [[MAP Flag|flag]] to identify each other. Many are [[anti-contact]], but some are [[pro-c]]ontact.

However, not every cub artist identifies as a MAP. In fact, a similar strife to that found between pedophiles and shotacons/[[lolicon]]s exist among cub artists, with them trying to distance themselves from pedophilia - claiming their drawings do not represent real children, thus do “not count”. In the case of cub porn, since the characters are not even human, some cub artists [[Validity Policing|distance]] themselves even from shotacons and lolicons, since shotas and lolis are human characters, albeit fictional, and thus “more pedophillic”, although that is very rare and most cub artists don’t have a problem with shotas or lolis.

==[[Wikipedia:Paraphilic infantilism|Paraphilic Infantilist]] cub==

There are people who enjoy cub without the pornographic aspect. Such is the case with ''babyfurs'', who enjoy looking at art featuring underage cartoon animals who act and are treated like babies. That’s not because they are sexually attracted to the character itself, but because the viewer puts themselves in the place of the character, imagining such things happening to themselves. That’s because ''babyfurs'' usually are also ''[[Wikipedia:ABDL|ABDL]]''s<ref>[https://understanding.infantilism.org/ Understanding Infantilism]</ref> (adult baby, diaper lover) and enjoy [[Wikipedia:Ageplay|age play]]. They don’t lust over the character, but lust over the idea of being in the role of that character. Many of their fantasies do not involve sexually explicit scenarios, so a babyfur may settle with non-pornographic cub works.

The same can be said about other fetishes that feature cubs. The furry fandom has many people who are open about their sexual fetishes and they might consume cub not because of the character, but because the character is doing something that appeals to the viewer’s particular kink. The same response could be elicited by a character of age.

==External links==

*Reizinho’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/1812215 ''Regarding Cub Porn'']
*[https://inkbunny.net/j/397537-Reizinho-defending-oneself- Advice for cub artists]
*Infinitydoom’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427 ''Not a Loophole''], about Fur Affinity’s ban based on character proportions.
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2995484 Out furry pedophile holding the flag]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2892689 Miniwolf fan art]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2929682 Babyfur]

==See also==

*[[Zoomap]]
*[[Child Pornography]]
*[[Lolicon]] - Drawn girls
:*'''[[Wikipedia:Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals|Kemono]]''' lolicon features lolis with animal characteristics.
*[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shotacon]] - Drawn images of boy characters.
*[[Prohibited images of children]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-07T01:41:31Z

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<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

Windows 11 continues its predecessor's model of pervasive data collection which is only expected to expand, as such it is highly discouraged as well (no data stored on a Windows computer should be considered secure).

In any case, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown. In the modern age, almost all sites use HTTPS and as such, this is no longer much of a concern (see below).

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default and warns a user when plain HTTP connection is attempted.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy before using any accounts.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050</code>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

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File:ubuntu4.png
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File:ubuntu10.png
</gallery>

'''Fedora''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Fedora3.png
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File:Fedora5.png
File:Fedora7.png
</gallery>

[[Category:Advice]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-06T16:58:00Z

Loli:

<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

Windows 11 continues its predecessor's model of pervasive data collection which is only expected to expand, as such it is highly discouraged as well (no data stored on a Windows computer should be considered secure).

In any case, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown. In the modern age, almost all sites use HTTPS and as such, this is no longer much of a concern (see below).

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default and warns a user when plain HTTP connection is attempted.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050</code>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu4.png
File:ubuntu5.png
File:ubuntu6.png
File:ubuntu8.png
File:ubuntu9.png
File:ubuntu10.png
</gallery>

'''Fedora''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Fedora3.png
File:Fedora4.png
File:Fedora5.png
File:Fedora7.png
</gallery>

[[Category:Advice]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-06T16:51:59Z

Loli: redundancy

<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

In both cases, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown. In the modern age, almost all sites use HTTPS and as such, this is no longer much of a concern (see below).

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default and warns a user when plain HTTP connection is attempted.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050</code>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

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'''Fedora''' 

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[[Category:Advice]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-06T16:49:02Z

Loli: added information

<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

In both cases, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown. Considering almost all sites use HTTPS by default in the modern age, and modern browsers (including Tor Browser) enforce HTTPS connections or warn a user when plain HTTP connection is attempted, this is no longer much of a concern, although the exit node is still able to know the domain names that it's being used to connect to.

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050</code>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu4.png
File:ubuntu5.png
File:ubuntu6.png
File:ubuntu8.png
File:ubuntu9.png
File:ubuntu10.png
</gallery>

'''Fedora''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Fedora3.png
File:Fedora4.png
File:Fedora5.png
File:Fedora7.png
</gallery>

[[Category:Advice]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-06T16:43:34Z

Loli: fix

<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

In both cases, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, Tor forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown.

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050</code>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu4.png
File:ubuntu5.png
File:ubuntu6.png
File:ubuntu8.png
File:ubuntu9.png
File:ubuntu10.png
</gallery>

'''Fedora''' 

<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Fedora3.png
File:Fedora4.png
File:Fedora5.png
File:Fedora7.png
</gallery>

[[Category:Advice]]

Guide To Computer Security (2022)

2023-07-06T16:42:42Z

Loli: email client instructions

<div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>The original '''Guide to Computer Security''' was produced by the [[Newgon Support Team]] after consultation with the [[Newgon]] forum community in 2008. It explained how you could protect data stored on your hard drive and stay anonymous on the internet. The guide may be of interest to people who wish to protect their anonymity and data from adversaries. This page represents an updated version currently under development.

==Operating Systems==

===Windows===

As of December 2021, Windows 10 is the world's most popular operating system. Although convenient and coming pre-installed on many devices, it is widely considered to be a very poor choice for data security and privacy.

Multiple guides exist online describing how to reduce the risk posed by using Windows 10. However, it is inherently insecure and best avoided for anyone who is concerned about the leakage of sensitive information.

[[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|Windows 7]] is no longer supported by Microsoft and its continued usage is recommended against. Nonetheless some tips relevant to it remain available [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Windows_7|below]].

In both cases, installing a free/open source operating system such as [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] is recommended instead.

===Linux===
Linux-based operating systems are strongly recommended over proprietary operating systems like Windows due to the latter's inherent privacy and security issues. 
Installing a Linux distribution is easy. All that is needed is an .iso file downloaded from the distribution's official website, flashing it to a USB drive with a tool such as [https://rufus.ie/en/ Rufus] or burning to a CD/DVD. 
Booting a computer from this USB or DVD drive will begin the installation.
*'''Ubuntu'''
:[https://ubuntu.com/desktop Ubuntu] is the most popular and one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. If you're looking for a place to start while switching away from Windows, Ubuntu is a decent choice.
*'''Fedora'''
:[https://getfedora.org/ Fedora] is another very popular Linux distribution, and in user friendliness equals Ubuntu. It also uses the most up to date releases of software and drivers, making it a good choice for newer hardware. Which also means less of a chance to run into problems at the installation step.

====Tips====
Virtually every popular Linux distribution will offer you to enable full disk encryption ([[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#LUKS|LUKS]]) during the installation process. It is highly recommended to enable this option (see [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux_installation|screenshots]]).

====Installation examples====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:ubuntu1.png|Ubuntu
File:fedora1.png|Fedora
File:Pop_os1.png|POP OS
</gallery>
===Live CDs===
Live operating systems require no installation except a USB or DVD drive they are flashed/burned onto and then booted from.
*'''Tails OS'''
:[https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] is a live operating system configured to be fully amnesic (leave no trace on the computer it is booted from) and use the Tor anonymity network.
*Many Linux distributions can be run in live mode as an alternative to installation.

===Windows 7===

Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft; as such, known security issues are unlikely to be patched barring exceptional circumstances. Usage of the Internet Explorer browser is not recommended.

There are a number of settings that should be changed in order to improve user privacy.

=====Indexing Service=====

The indexing service provides a book-like index of all files stored on any drive for which it is enabled. It enables faster searches of drives and folders. However, names of all indexed files and some of their contents will be stored in plain-text on the drive on which Windows is installed, even if those files are encrypted.

To turn off the indexing service:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off. Deselect 'Indexing Service'.

=====Recent Items=====

By default, Windows 7 stores a list of recently opened items. To disable this, right click on Start, select 'Properties', select the 'Start Menu' tab, then uncheck 'Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu' and 'Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar'.

=====System Restore=====

Windows 7 is normally configured to automatically backup system files and personal documents. This can be disabled via Control Panel -> System -> System Protection. Make sure it is turned off for all disks.

=====Swap File=====

Windows 7 uses a swap file in which it temporarily stores data from RAM on the disk in order to conserve RAM usage. This is unnecessary for most modern computers, and it is a security issue because almost any data could theoretically be written to the disk, including encryption keys.

To disable, System -> Advanced System Settings -> under performance, click 'Settings' -> Advanced tab -> under Virtual Memory, click 'Change' -> set 'No paging file' for all drives.

=====Hibernation=====

The hibernation feature of Windows 7 stores data from your current session to your hard drive and puts your computer in a very low power state. This has similar security implications to the swap file.

To disable hibernation: Start -> Type 'run' -> Type 'cmd' -> type 'powercfg -h off'.

=====Thumbnail cache=====

Windows 7 stores thumbnails in a central cache on the drive on which Windows is installed. Thumbnails of encrypted images will also be stored in this central cache when the folder in which the images are located is accessed.

Built-in methods and [https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10794-thumbnail-cache-enable-disable.html software]for disabling the cache exist, but there are reports of these solutions not working perfectly. People living in particularly oppressive regimes should consider wiping their thumbnail cache regularly.

=====Telemetry=====

Windows 7 sends data about your computer usage to Microsoft. The relevant 'features', designed for Windows 10, were introduced to Windows 7 via Windows Updates.

The following updates should be uninstalled if present:

*KB3068708
*KB3022345
*KB3075249
*KB3080149

==Data Protection==

===Encryption===

Encrypting files renders the data within them unintelligible. While Microsoft, hard drive manufacturers and other companies offer free encryption tools, these cannot be trusted in the event of a highly motivated adversary.

====Recommended Programs====

The following programs can probably be trusted to protect against the vast majority of adversaries, assuming that their settings are configured correctly and the operating system has been appropriately secured.

=====VeraCrypt=====

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt, a program whose development is alleged by many to have been shut down by the US government. VeraCrypt is widely considered to provide the highest level of security of any free program. Donations to the project would always be welcome.

=====LUKS=====
LUKS is [[Guide_To_Computer_Security_(2022)#Linux|Linux]] inbuilt encryption utility. An option to encrypt the entire disk is offered while installing Linux. Afterwards it can be easily used to encrypt external devices through a graphical interface offered by the distribution's desktop environment.

=====BestCrypt=====

BestCrypt is a paid encryption product with similar functionality to VeraCrypt. It can be purchased along with highly effective data erasure software. Although expensive, it is a long established and very well trusted product.

====Encryption Options====

There are two main methods of encryption that are still relevant in 2022.

=====Whole Disk Encryption=====

Encrypting the entire disk renders all contents unreadable unless a password is provided. If you do not require plausible deniability and you do not care about giving the appearance of compliance, you can simply encrypt the entire disk and refuse to provide the password.

=====Volume Encryption=====

Volume encryption creates a file on your disk that functions as a virtual drive. These virtual drives have the same functionality as a physical drive. Using volume encryption allows you to encrypt only a portion of your disk, instead of encrypting the whole drive.

A major benefit of volume encryption for activists [https://web.archive.org/web/20221007143346/https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/veracrypt-hidden-volumes is the ability to create hidden volumes]. Hidden volumes are created within the free space of a standard volume. Due to the way they're created, they are extremely difficult to detect. This provides excellent plausible deniability; you can hand over a key to the main volume and still nobody can prove that there is a second hidden volume containing the data that you really wish to keep private.

VeraCrypt has a feature allowing users to run an operating system from within a hidden container, reducing the risk of data leakage from improper operating system configuration.

===Secure Erasure===
In most cases, files deleted through conventional methods are '''still recoverable''', even after trash is emptied. Several tools exist to securely erase either specific files, entire partitions, or wipe free space on a disk to get rid of any remnants of files that were not erased securely.

====Windows-specific====
[https://eraser.heidi.ie/ Eraser] can be used to erase select files, external drives, or wipe free space on the currently used drive.

====All operating systems====
[https://www.bleachbit.org/ Bleachbit] is an example of software which can be used for this purpose on Linux, version for Windows is also available. In addition, the software includes features useful for general data cleanup.

====Other (entire disk)====
[https://dban.org/ DBAN] (Darik's Boot and Nuke), is used for wiping entire drives. It must be booted from an external drive. '''Warning: All data''' will be erased, including the operating system. If there are files you want to keep, you must back them up on another drive and unplug it from the computer before using DBAN.
An operating system must be reinstalled on the computer afterwards.

===Firewalls and Anti-Virus Protection===

===SSD Issues===

==Network Security==

===Proxies===

Proxies are used to hide your true IP address from another server or client. Many proxies are insecure and not suitable for use by MAP activists. Use of a malicious or unfriendly proxy server can be more dangerous than a direct connection.

====Web-based proxy servers====

Web-based proxies are of very limited utility for the MAP activist community. They provide a minimal level of obfuscation suitable only for circumventing bans and geographic restrictions, and many will already be blocked from popular websites. The service operator has the ability to monitor users and may well comply with authorities wrongly targeting MAPs.

====VPNs====

Similar to web-based proxies, VPNs place users at risk of monitoring by the service provider and anyone to whom they choose to provide access. They have the same practical purpose as web-based proxies for the MAP community.

====Tor====

Unlike web-based proxies and VPNs, Tor forwards data via an entry node and two more random nodes operated by volunteers. Data sent by the client is encrypted up to the exit node. Upon leaving the exit node, data is visible if not encrypted by other means (such as HTTPS), although the source of the data is unknown.

There are weaknesses within the Tor design, but it is the safest option for anonymous communication online. People who do not make themselves a major global target are unlikely to be identified due to any of the inherent weaknesses. User error is the biggest risk.

=====Using Tor safely=====

In 2022, Tor is most often used with Tor Browser, which is automatically configured to connect via the Tor network.

Tor Browser has three pre-configured security levels.

* 'Safest' disables any functionality that could be used to identify you. However, a lot of website features will no longer work. Social media, webmail and many other services will be unusable.

* 'Safer' disables some features that could be used to identify you, but not all. JavaScript is enabled on HTTPS sites. Social media, webmail and many other services will will usable, but there is a small risk of being identified via malicious scripts.

* 'Standard' does not disable any potentially dangerous functionality. There is a higher risk of being identified or attacked.

The final connection in the Tor circuit (between the exit node and the destination) is not encrypted by the Tor client. Therefore, any unencrypted data sent will be visible by the operator of the exit node. Any sensitive information should be encrypted by other means. A simple HTTPS connection is one solution. Tor Browser, since recent versions, forces a HTTPS connection for all compatible services by default.

===E-mail===
====Providers====
* [https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota] is a privacy-respecting e-mail provider that offers both a free and paid model. There is a two-day waiting period on newly registered accounts before they can be used.
* [https://proton.me/ ProtonMail], while having faced some skepticism, should still be considered a better alternative to most mainstream e-mail providers.

====Clients====
Email clients can be used for using an email account outside of a browser. Depending on user practices, this can have a number of security advantages (such as OpenPGP). However, if it is desired to stay anonymous while accessing email (such as through Tor), the email client must be properly configured to connect through the desired proxy.

* [https://www.thunderbird.net/ Thunderbird] is a full-featured, free and open source email client.
::Tor configuration should be possible through '''General''' > '''Connection''' > '''Settings''' > '''Manual proxy configuration''': '''SOCKS Host''': <code>127.0.0.1</code> '''Port''': <code>9050<c/ode>. [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/ TorBirdy] may be of use. Tor Browser, or a Tor client must be running for connectivity to work. Users are advised to test their configuration works properly.
::'''OpenPGP''' (end-to-end encryption) can be configured in '''Account Settings''' > '''End-To-End Encryption''' > '''Add Key''' after logging into an account. You have to share the public portion with your contacts (Thunderbird can automatically attach it to emails), and you have to import your contact's public keys to encrypt emails to them.

===Chat===
General recommendations for chat and instant messaging software is avoiding proprietary solutions and anything lacking end-to-end encryption. A work-in-progress list of open source messaging software with end-to-end encryption capability is offered below:
* [https://element.io/get-started Element] is a modern chat application powered by the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption and general features expected from a modern chat client.
* '''XMPP''' is an instant messaging protocol that can be used through a number of chat applications (clients) designed to be compatible with it; the client used is a matter of user choice. One example of a cross-platform desktop client is [https://gajim.org/ Gajim]. An example of a mobile client is [https://conversations.im/ Conversations].
::Modern '''XMPP''' clients, including these two examples, generally have support for end-to-encryption (OMEMO). This encryption can be toggled on in private messages and private group chats.
::An '''XMPP''' user selects a particular server to register on, acquiring an address such as user@example.org. Much like e-mail these addresses resemble, users registered on different servers can still communicate and chat with each other; it is not necessary for them to use the same server.
::'''XMPP''' clients usually have a selection built in and support registration directly through the client.

==Operational Security==

===Search engines / Googling===
It is recommended to use a privacy-respecting search engine instead of Google.
*[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage] offers results from Google without Google's tracking mechanisms. This also means the results are not personalized.
*[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] is a popular search engine that claims to respect privacy of its users.

===Fingerprinting===
====Metadata====
<Gallery heights=200px widths=200px>
File:Metadata GPS.png|GPS coordinates saved in the metadata of an image taken on an iPhone.
</gallery>
Metadata, or EXIF data, is information that is stored along with most saved files, including photos. Some of the information that can be stored in metadata includes '''GPS coordinates for where the photo was taken (automatically like this on iPhones)''', author information of a document, and information about the camera or device that was used to take a photo. Whenever you upload a file somewhere, '''always check''' that the metadata contains no information that could be used to identify or fingerprint you.
*[https://exiftool.org Exiftool] offers the ability to not only view metadata, but also strip/remove it from an image or document.
**Commands:
***Read metadata: exiftool your_file.jpg
***Delete metadata: exiftool -All= your_file.jpg

===Social Engineering===
====Infiltration====
Federal agents, or other adversaries often infiltrate movements to sabotage or acquire information of a group's plans. [https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them This site] contains information about how to spot infiltrators.

==Phone Security==
Securing mobile phones offers additional factors to take into account over PC security, such as the phone's GPS location capability, connection to cellular networks, unique phone number, and video and audio recording capabilities which can all be used to identify and track its user if the phone is compromised, including through untrusted software running on the phone.

These reasons are why utmost care should be taken to secure the phone and make sure it only runs trusted and secure software if it is to be used for any sensitive activities at all.

===Custom ROMs===
Most phones come with the Android operating system. Because manufacturers tend to pre-install many apps and make other modifications which can threaten the user's privacy and security, using the stock Android ROM that came with the phone is very non-ideal.

Before doing anything else, it is ''strongly recommended'' to replace the stock Android ROM with a custom Android ROM such as [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]. This is essentially reinstalling the phone's operating system. Therefore, as with most reinstallations, any data desired to be kept by the user must be backed up elsewhere, because all data on the phone will be lost.

Guides for installation of custom ROMs are available on the specific project's website, as well as a list of phones which are compatible with the ROM. If you are buying a new phone, make sure your phone is on this list prior to purchasing it. LineageOS has the broadest compatibility. Alternative ROMs exist as well but not all are compatible with every phone.

====List of custom ROMs====
* [https://www.lineageos.org/ LineageOS]

===Apps===
For a trusted application base, your apps should come from a trusted source, such as the [https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] store. Do not install or use the proprietary Google Play store, as ubiquitous on most Android devices as it is. Prefer open source apps from F-Droid instead. If you really need an app only available on Google Play, consider alternative stores like [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ Aurora Store].

==Cryptocurrency==
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) offer activists a valuable tool for financial privacy and freedom. In countries with oppressive governments or strict controls on financial transactions, activists can use cryptos to securely send and receive funds without fear of being tracked or censored. Cryptos also provide an alternative to traditional financial systems, allowing activists to bypass bank restrictions or sanctions. Additionally, the decentralized nature of cryptos gives activists a level of autonomy and control over their own funds, enabling them to support causes and organizations without fear of interference. Cryptos may increase and decrease considerably in value, as measured in fiat currencies such as the US Dollar. Privacy-related, and more illiquid cryptos tend to be more stable in their value over time as compared to Bitcoin, which is less secure and forms the basis for numerous scams.

*[https://www.getmonero.org Monero (XMR)] is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It allows users to securely send and receive funds without revealing their identity. Unlike Bitcoin, which publicly displays all transactions on a transparent ledger, Monero uses advanced cryptographic techniques to make transactions untraceable and unlinkable.

==Perspective==

==Useful Links==

===Safety Guides===

*[https://blsafety.net/?safety/online BLSafety] - Predominantly behavioral guide
*[https://blog.mapcommunity.org/omc/security-privacy OMC]
*[http://fuckthefeds.pro/ Fuckthefeds]
*[https://www.mapresources.info/guides/safety MAPResources] - '''Please note, this is a Google site, and may be used to track you if you are logged in to your Google account. Consider using Tor Browser or Web Archive to view this site.'''

==Screenshots==
===Linux installation===
During the installation step that asks you about the disk to use for your operating system, tick the checkbox to '''Encrypt your data''' (under '''Advanced Features''' in the Ubuntu example). 
 
'''Ubuntu''' 

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'''Fedora''' 

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[[Category:Advice]]

Cub Porn

2023-07-06T16:09:09Z

Loli: Loli moved page Cub Porn to Cub: cub art is not necessarily pornographic, after the edits it is better to have a more general title

#REDIRECT [[Cub]]

Cub

2023-07-06T16:09:09Z

Loli: Loli moved page Cub Porn to Cub: cub art is not necessarily pornographic, after the edits it is better to have a more general title

[[File:Cub_Loli.jpg|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (girl, eastern style)<ref>Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463</ref>]]__NOTOC__[[File:Dandi.png|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (boy, patreon.com/Dandi)]]__NOTOC__'''Cub''' is a type of [[Wikipedia:Furry fandom|furry]] art ([[Wikipedia:Yiff|pornographic]] or not) featuring a [[child]]like anthropomorphic animal (cub), often in a in sexualized situation. Cub porn can take many forms: drawings, stories, audio, comics, animations and so on. There are communities focused on cub, and they are often shunned by the rest of the furry fandom due to this kind of media being too close to "[[pedophilia]]".

Due to being cartoon animals, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is a cub and what is not. A real animal, such as a cat, is an adult at the age of four, but cubs often act like human children at that age. Plus, a character can be an adult, but retain childlike features for cuteness, such as pokémon and digimon. This has led to speculation about what is considered cub and what is not.

==Bans==

Sites like ''Fur Affinity'' have banned cub porn (specifically, Fur Affinity banned cub porn in November 24th, 2010<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity bans cub]</ref>) and have tried to regulate it in various ways, some ways more popular than others. One of them, set to take effect at the end of June 2023, is a clarification in the acceptable upload policy to explicitly ban characters that have childlike proportions, which bans many kinds of pokémon and digimon, if they feature in sexual situations, even if the character is of age (a pokémon can spend it’s entire life in it’s first evolutionary stage and digimon can alternate forms). The new rule has caused outcry.<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034 Fur Affinity backlash]</ref>

Another site, ''Sofurry'', banned cub porn as well, but has not made such drastic changes to their policy, preferring to rely on common sense, rather than proportions.

In 2010, Fur Affinity user Cubprotest reported Fur Affinity to Alertpay, arguing that Fur Affinity was hosting pictures that could be construed as child porn. Alertpay then withheld the donations due to Fur Affinity until the site banned such content. In November 24th, 2010, Fur Affinity banned cub porn. The then administrator, Pinkuh, left her role, as she found it unacceptable to ban fantasy characters. Sofurry banned cub porn<ref>[https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129 Sofurry ban]</ref> in March 2018 due to it’s head administrator, Toumal, fearing that a change in the way the law was interpreted could cause him legal trouble for allowing such content in his site. Another furry art site, ''Weasyl'', never allowed such content.

The cub porn ban on Fur Affinity caused a surge in ''Inkbunny''’s popularity. Inkbunny is a site started by Starling,<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/starling Starling on Inkbunny]</ref> who featured in the only Western printed pornographic cub-centered comic, ''Softpaw Magazine''.<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Softpaw_Magazine Softpaw Magazine]</ref> Inkbunny allows cub porn to this day, 13 years after it’s launch. With the new rulings on Fur Affinity, Inkbunny experienced another popularity surge in 2023.

==MAP community==

Due to cubs not being children, but resembling them in many ways, many [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] cherish such content. There is a sizeable number of open MAPs on ''Inkbunny'', using the [[MAP Flag|flag]] to identify each other. Many are [[anti-contact]], but some are [[pro-c]]ontact.

However, not every cub artist identifies as a MAP. In fact, a similar strife to that found between pedophiles and shotacons/[[lolicon]]s exist among cub artists, with them trying to distance themselves from pedophilia - claiming their drawings do not represent real children, thus do “not count”. In the case of cub porn, since the characters are not even human, some cub artists [[Validity Policing|distance]] themselves even from shotacons and lolicons, since shotas and lolis are human characters, albeit fictional, and thus “more pedophillic”, although that is very rare and most cub artists don’t have a problem with shotas or lolis.

==[[Wikipedia:Paraphilic infantilism|Paraphilic Infantilist]] cub==

There are people who enjoy cub without the pornographic aspect. Such is the case with ''babyfurs'', who enjoy looking at art featuring underage cartoon animals who act and are treated like babies. That’s not because they are sexually attracted to the character itself, but because the viewer puts themselves in the place of the character, imagining such things happening to themselves. That’s because ''babyfurs'' usually are also ''[[Wikipedia:ABDL|ABDL]]''s<ref>[https://understanding.infantilism.org/ Understanding Infantilism]</ref> (adult baby, diaper lover) and enjoy [[Wikipedia:Ageplay|age play]]. They don’t lust over the character, but lust over the idea of being in the role of that character. Many of their fantasies do not involve sexually explicit scenarios, so a babyfur may settle with non-pornographic cub works.

The same can be said about other fetishes that feature cubs. The furry fandom has many people who are open about their sexual fetishes and they might consume cub not because of the character, but because the character is doing something that appeals to the viewer’s particular kink. The same response could be elicited by a character of age.

==External links==

*Reizinho’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/1812215 ''Regarding Cub Porn'']
*[https://inkbunny.net/j/397537-Reizinho-defending-oneself- Advice for cub artists]
*Infinitydoom’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427 ''Not a Loophole''], about Fur Affinity’s ban based on character proportions.
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2995484 Out furry pedophile holding the flag]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2892689 Miniwolf fan art]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2929682 Babyfur]

==See also==

*[[Zoomap]]
*[[Child Pornography]]
*[[Lolicon]] - Drawn girls
:*'''[[Wikipedia:Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals|Kemono]]''' lolicon features lolis with animal characteristics.
*[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shotacon]] - Drawn images of boy characters.
*[[Prohibited images of children]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]

Cub

2023-07-06T16:08:00Z

Loli: less redundant

[[File:Cub_Loli.jpg|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (girl, eastern style)<ref>Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463</ref>]]__NOTOC__[[File:Dandi.png|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (boy, patreon.com/Dandi)]]__NOTOC__'''Cub''' is a type of [[Wikipedia:Furry fandom|furry]] art ([[Wikipedia:Yiff|pornographic]] or not) featuring a [[child]]like anthropomorphic animal (cub), often in a in sexualized situation. Cub porn can take many forms: drawings, stories, audio, comics, animations and so on. There are communities focused on cub, and they are often shunned by the rest of the furry fandom due to this kind of media being too close to "[[pedophilia]]".

Due to being cartoon animals, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is a cub and what is not. A real animal, such as a cat, is an adult at the age of four, but cubs often act like human children at that age. Plus, a character can be an adult, but retain childlike features for cuteness, such as pokémon and digimon. This has led to speculation about what is considered cub and what is not.

==Bans==

Sites like ''Fur Affinity'' have banned cub porn (specifically, Fur Affinity banned cub porn in November 24th, 2010<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity bans cub]</ref>) and have tried to regulate it in various ways, some ways more popular than others. One of them, set to take effect at the end of June 2023, is a clarification in the acceptable upload policy to explicitly ban characters that have childlike proportions, which bans many kinds of pokémon and digimon, if they feature in sexual situations, even if the character is of age (a pokémon can spend it’s entire life in it’s first evolutionary stage and digimon can alternate forms). The new rule has caused outcry.<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034 Fur Affinity backlash]</ref>

Another site, ''Sofurry'', banned cub porn as well, but has not made such drastic changes to their policy, preferring to rely on common sense, rather than proportions.

In 2010, Fur Affinity user Cubprotest reported Fur Affinity to Alertpay, arguing that Fur Affinity was hosting pictures that could be construed as child porn. Alertpay then withheld the donations due to Fur Affinity until the site banned such content. In November 24th, 2010, Fur Affinity banned cub porn. The then administrator, Pinkuh, left her role, as she found it unacceptable to ban fantasy characters. Sofurry banned cub porn<ref>[https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129 Sofurry ban]</ref> in March 2018 due to it’s head administrator, Toumal, fearing that a change in the way the law was interpreted could cause him legal trouble for allowing such content in his site. Another furry art site, ''Weasyl'', never allowed such content.

The cub porn ban on Fur Affinity caused a surge in ''Inkbunny''’s popularity. Inkbunny is a site started by Starling,<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/starling Starling on Inkbunny]</ref> who featured in the only Western printed pornographic cub-centered comic, ''Softpaw Magazine''.<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Softpaw_Magazine Softpaw Magazine]</ref> Inkbunny allows cub porn to this day, 13 years after it’s launch. With the new rulings on Fur Affinity, Inkbunny experienced another popularity surge in 2023.

==MAP community==

Due to cubs not being children, but resembling them in many ways, many [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] cherish such content. There is a sizeable number of open MAPs on ''Inkbunny'', using the [[MAP Flag|flag]] to identify each other. Many are [[anti-contact]], but some are [[pro-c]]ontact.

However, not every cub artist identifies as a MAP. In fact, a similar strife to that found between pedophiles and shotacons/[[lolicon]]s exist among cub artists, with them trying to distance themselves from pedophilia - claiming their drawings do not represent real children, thus do “not count”. In the case of cub porn, since the characters are not even human, some cub artists [[Validity Policing|distance]] themselves even from shotacons and lolicons, since shotas and lolis are human characters, albeit fictional, and thus “more pedophillic”, although that is very rare and most cub artists don’t have a problem with shotas or lolis.

==[[Wikipedia:Paraphilic infantilism|Paraphilic Infantilist]] cub==

There are people who enjoy cub without the pornographic aspect. Such is the case with ''babyfurs'', who enjoy looking at art featuring underage cartoon animals who act and are treated like babies. That’s not because they are sexually attracted to the character itself, but because the viewer puts themselves in the place of the character, imagining such things happening to themselves. That’s because ''babyfurs'' usually are also ''[[Wikipedia:ABDL|ABDL]]''s<ref>[https://understanding.infantilism.org/ Understanding Infantilism]</ref> (adult baby, diaper lover) and enjoy [[Wikipedia:Ageplay|age play]]. They don’t lust over the character, but lust over the idea of being in the role of that character. Many of their fantasies do not involve sexually explicit scenarios, so a babyfur may settle with non-pornographic cub works.

The same can be said about other fetishes that feature cubs. The furry fandom has many people who are open about their sexual fetishes and they might consume cub not because of the character, but because the character is doing something that appeals to the viewer’s particular kink. The same response could be elicited by a character of age.

==External links==

*Reizinho’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/1812215 ''Regarding Cub Porn'']
*[https://inkbunny.net/j/397537-Reizinho-defending-oneself- Advice for cub artists]
*Infinitydoom’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427 ''Not a Loophole''], about Fur Affinity’s ban based on character proportions.
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2995484 Out furry pedophile holding the flag]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2892689 Miniwolf fan art]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2929682 Babyfur]

==See also==

*[[Zoomap]]
*[[Child Pornography]]
*[[Lolicon]] - Drawn girls
:*'''[[Wikipedia:Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals|Kemono]]''' lolicon features lolis with animal characteristics.
*[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shotacon]] - Drawn images of boy characters.
*[[Prohibited images of children]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]

Cub

2023-07-06T16:07:20Z

Loli: not meant to have quotation marks

[[File:Cub_Loli.jpg|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (girl, eastern style)<ref>Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463</ref>]]__NOTOC__[[File:Dandi.png|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (boy, patreon.com/Dandi)]]__NOTOC__'''Cub''' is a type of [[Wikipedia:Furry fandom|furry]] art ([[Wikipedia:Yiff|pornographic]] or not) featuring a [[child]]like anthropomorphic animal (cub), often in a in sexualized situation. Cub porn can take many forms: drawings, stories, audio, comics, animations and so on. There are communities focused on cub, pornographic or not, and they are often shunned by the rest of the furry fandom due to this kind of media being too close to "[[pedophilia]]".

Due to being cartoon animals, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is a cub and what is not. A real animal, such as a cat, is an adult at the age of four, but cubs often act like human children at that age. Plus, a character can be an adult, but retain childlike features for cuteness, such as pokémon and digimon. This has led to speculation about what is considered cub and what is not.

==Bans==

Sites like ''Fur Affinity'' have banned cub porn (specifically, Fur Affinity banned cub porn in November 24th, 2010<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity bans cub]</ref>) and have tried to regulate it in various ways, some ways more popular than others. One of them, set to take effect at the end of June 2023, is a clarification in the acceptable upload policy to explicitly ban characters that have childlike proportions, which bans many kinds of pokémon and digimon, if they feature in sexual situations, even if the character is of age (a pokémon can spend it’s entire life in it’s first evolutionary stage and digimon can alternate forms). The new rule has caused outcry.<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034 Fur Affinity backlash]</ref>

Another site, ''Sofurry'', banned cub porn as well, but has not made such drastic changes to their policy, preferring to rely on common sense, rather than proportions.

In 2010, Fur Affinity user Cubprotest reported Fur Affinity to Alertpay, arguing that Fur Affinity was hosting pictures that could be construed as child porn. Alertpay then withheld the donations due to Fur Affinity until the site banned such content. In November 24th, 2010, Fur Affinity banned cub porn. The then administrator, Pinkuh, left her role, as she found it unacceptable to ban fantasy characters. Sofurry banned cub porn<ref>[https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129 Sofurry ban]</ref> in March 2018 due to it’s head administrator, Toumal, fearing that a change in the way the law was interpreted could cause him legal trouble for allowing such content in his site. Another furry art site, ''Weasyl'', never allowed such content.

The cub porn ban on Fur Affinity caused a surge in ''Inkbunny''’s popularity. Inkbunny is a site started by Starling,<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/starling Starling on Inkbunny]</ref> who featured in the only Western printed pornographic cub-centered comic, ''Softpaw Magazine''.<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Softpaw_Magazine Softpaw Magazine]</ref> Inkbunny allows cub porn to this day, 13 years after it’s launch. With the new rulings on Fur Affinity, Inkbunny experienced another popularity surge in 2023.

==MAP community==

Due to cubs not being children, but resembling them in many ways, many [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] cherish such content. There is a sizeable number of open MAPs on ''Inkbunny'', using the [[MAP Flag|flag]] to identify each other. Many are [[anti-contact]], but some are [[pro-c]]ontact.

However, not every cub artist identifies as a MAP. In fact, a similar strife to that found between pedophiles and shotacons/[[lolicon]]s exist among cub artists, with them trying to distance themselves from pedophilia - claiming their drawings do not represent real children, thus do “not count”. In the case of cub porn, since the characters are not even human, some cub artists [[Validity Policing|distance]] themselves even from shotacons and lolicons, since shotas and lolis are human characters, albeit fictional, and thus “more pedophillic”, although that is very rare and most cub artists don’t have a problem with shotas or lolis.

==[[Wikipedia:Paraphilic infantilism|Paraphilic Infantilist]] cub==

There are people who enjoy cub without the pornographic aspect. Such is the case with ''babyfurs'', who enjoy looking at art featuring underage cartoon animals who act and are treated like babies. That’s not because they are sexually attracted to the character itself, but because the viewer puts themselves in the place of the character, imagining such things happening to themselves. That’s because ''babyfurs'' usually are also ''[[Wikipedia:ABDL|ABDL]]''s<ref>[https://understanding.infantilism.org/ Understanding Infantilism]</ref> (adult baby, diaper lover) and enjoy [[Wikipedia:Ageplay|age play]]. They don’t lust over the character, but lust over the idea of being in the role of that character. Many of their fantasies do not involve sexually explicit scenarios, so a babyfur may settle with non-pornographic cub works.

The same can be said about other fetishes that feature cubs. The furry fandom has many people who are open about their sexual fetishes and they might consume cub not because of the character, but because the character is doing something that appeals to the viewer’s particular kink. The same response could be elicited by a character of age.

==External links==

*Reizinho’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/1812215 ''Regarding Cub Porn'']
*[https://inkbunny.net/j/397537-Reizinho-defending-oneself- Advice for cub artists]
*Infinitydoom’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427 ''Not a Loophole''], about Fur Affinity’s ban based on character proportions.
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2995484 Out furry pedophile holding the flag]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2892689 Miniwolf fan art]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2929682 Babyfur]

==See also==

*[[Zoomap]]
*[[Child Pornography]]
*[[Lolicon]] - Drawn girls
:*'''[[Wikipedia:Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals|Kemono]]''' lolicon features lolis with animal characteristics.
*[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shotacon]] - Drawn images of boy characters.
*[[Prohibited images of children]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]

Cub

2023-07-06T16:05:58Z

Loli: add picture, generalize

[[File:Cub_Loli.jpg|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (girl, eastern style)<ref>Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463</ref>]]__NOTOC__[[File:Dandi.png|thumb|Non pornographic cub art (boy, patreon.com/Dandi)]]__NOTOC__'''Cub''' is a type of [[Wikipedia:Furry fandom|“furry”]] art ([[Wikipedia:Yiff|pornographic]] or not) featuring a [[child]]like anthropomorphic animal (cub), often in a in sexualized situation. Cub porn can take many forms: drawings, stories, audio, comics, animations and so on. There are communities focused on cub, pornographic or not, and they are often shunned by the rest of the furry fandom due to this kind of media being too close to "[[pedophilia]]".

Due to being cartoon animals, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is a cub and what is not. A real animal, such as a cat, is an adult at the age of four, but cubs often act like human children at that age. Plus, a character can be an adult, but retain childlike features for cuteness, such as pokémon and digimon. This has led to speculation about what is considered cub and what is not.

==Bans==

Sites like ''Fur Affinity'' have banned cub porn (specifically, Fur Affinity banned cub porn in November 24th, 2010<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity bans cub]</ref>) and have tried to regulate it in various ways, some ways more popular than others. One of them, set to take effect at the end of June 2023, is a clarification in the acceptable upload policy to explicitly ban characters that have childlike proportions, which bans many kinds of pokémon and digimon, if they feature in sexual situations, even if the character is of age (a pokémon can spend it’s entire life in it’s first evolutionary stage and digimon can alternate forms). The new rule has caused outcry.<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034 Fur Affinity backlash]</ref>

Another site, ''Sofurry'', banned cub porn as well, but has not made such drastic changes to their policy, preferring to rely on common sense, rather than proportions.

In 2010, Fur Affinity user Cubprotest reported Fur Affinity to Alertpay, arguing that Fur Affinity was hosting pictures that could be construed as child porn. Alertpay then withheld the donations due to Fur Affinity until the site banned such content. In November 24th, 2010, Fur Affinity banned cub porn. The then administrator, Pinkuh, left her role, as she found it unacceptable to ban fantasy characters. Sofurry banned cub porn<ref>[https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129 Sofurry ban]</ref> in March 2018 due to it’s head administrator, Toumal, fearing that a change in the way the law was interpreted could cause him legal trouble for allowing such content in his site. Another furry art site, ''Weasyl'', never allowed such content.

The cub porn ban on Fur Affinity caused a surge in ''Inkbunny''’s popularity. Inkbunny is a site started by Starling,<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/starling Starling on Inkbunny]</ref> who featured in the only Western printed pornographic cub-centered comic, ''Softpaw Magazine''.<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Softpaw_Magazine Softpaw Magazine]</ref> Inkbunny allows cub porn to this day, 13 years after it’s launch. With the new rulings on Fur Affinity, Inkbunny experienced another popularity surge in 2023.

==MAP community==

Due to cubs not being children, but resembling them in many ways, many [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]] cherish such content. There is a sizeable number of open MAPs on ''Inkbunny'', using the [[MAP Flag|flag]] to identify each other. Many are [[anti-contact]], but some are [[pro-c]]ontact.

However, not every cub artist identifies as a MAP. In fact, a similar strife to that found between pedophiles and shotacons/[[lolicon]]s exist among cub artists, with them trying to distance themselves from pedophilia - claiming their drawings do not represent real children, thus do “not count”. In the case of cub porn, since the characters are not even human, some cub artists [[Validity Policing|distance]] themselves even from shotacons and lolicons, since shotas and lolis are human characters, albeit fictional, and thus “more pedophillic”, although that is very rare and most cub artists don’t have a problem with shotas or lolis.

==[[Wikipedia:Paraphilic infantilism|Paraphilic Infantilist]] cub==

There are people who enjoy cub without the pornographic aspect. Such is the case with ''babyfurs'', who enjoy looking at art featuring underage cartoon animals who act and are treated like babies. That’s not because they are sexually attracted to the character itself, but because the viewer puts themselves in the place of the character, imagining such things happening to themselves. That’s because ''babyfurs'' usually are also ''[[Wikipedia:ABDL|ABDL]]''s<ref>[https://understanding.infantilism.org/ Understanding Infantilism]</ref> (adult baby, diaper lover) and enjoy [[Wikipedia:Ageplay|age play]]. They don’t lust over the character, but lust over the idea of being in the role of that character. Many of their fantasies do not involve sexually explicit scenarios, so a babyfur may settle with non-pornographic cub works.

The same can be said about other fetishes that feature cubs. The furry fandom has many people who are open about their sexual fetishes and they might consume cub not because of the character, but because the character is doing something that appeals to the viewer’s particular kink. The same response could be elicited by a character of age.

==External links==

*Reizinho’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/1812215 ''Regarding Cub Porn'']
*[https://inkbunny.net/j/397537-Reizinho-defending-oneself- Advice for cub artists]
*Infinitydoom’s [https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427 ''Not a Loophole''], about Fur Affinity’s ban based on character proportions.
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2995484 Out furry pedophile holding the flag]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2892689 Miniwolf fan art]
*[https://inkbunny.net/s/2929682 Babyfur]

==See also==

*[[Zoomap]]
*[[Child Pornography]]
*[[Lolicon]] - Drawn girls
:*'''[[Wikipedia:Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals|Kemono]]''' lolicon features lolis with animal characteristics.
*[[Wikipedia:Shotacon|Shotacon]] - Drawn images of boy characters.
*[[Prohibited images of children]]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]

File:Cub Loli.jpg

2023-07-06T15:58:09Z

Loli: Cub loli (eastern style) Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463

== Summary ==
Cub loli (eastern style)
Source: https://twitter.com/3yo4yo5yo/status/1401535611442323463