Adult Attracted Minor

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Adult Attracted Minor (or AAM) is a term coined in reference to a legal minor who is sexually/romantically attracted to a person, or persons, who are legal adults. As commonly used, this can refer to preferential, non-preferential or indeed ephemeral attractions.

"AAM" is often abused to describe just minors who seek sexual contact with adults – in essence, “chasers”. Most minor attracted people profess an ethical opposition to pursuing relationships with minors, regardless of whether they are in favor of easing Age of Consent laws. Behavioral data, documenting the high frequency of attraction to minors in the general population and low frequency of pedophilia in the criminal population, all but confirms the existence of numerous non-offending MAPs and pedophiles in society.

With respect to the non-preferential application of "AAM", this can also be deemed problematic, since attraction to sexually mature people is incredibly common among pubescents. However, large swathes of western society still refuse to accept this, or at least the idea that adult-directed sexual desires are “appropriate” for modern teens, insisting upon a period of containment until the “child” hits 18. This is the most likely reason why "AAM" has almost immediately been ascribed a behavioral definition by most observers, as this behavior is both "atypical", and undeniable evidence of transgressive desires that Western adult society refuses to accept.

Origin

AAM (as commonly used) is likely to have emerged out of the 2018-19 publicity surrounding the term "Minor Attracted People" and the MAP Flag. However, early uses have been located on old web-forums as early as 2002, and also by Pedologues broadcaster Rookiee, as a "mirror image" of "Minor Attracted Adult" on his blog, Paiderastia, in May of 2006.

AAM Activism

AAM activism is often seen as an acid-test for pro-c MAP activists. If and when minors are able to freely speak out, the upside risk for MAP activism in general, increases exponentially. Mark Moffett Jr, covered in Youth Perspectives was the most famous AAM activist, although he will not have used the term to describe himself.

Official Guidance⁽ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᶦˢˀ⁾ - Spotting fake/bait AAMs

Fake/bait AAM personas used by anti-MAP vigilantes are known to demonstrate a few common traits (see gallery below):

• Anonymous, non-photographic persona, fake/stolen photos, or otherwise will not "flash" face or private features, as they are an adult and it would give the game away.
• Forward with sexual advances, requests for photographs. Ever so happy to "meet" after a photo and some sweet words. No actual minor would be!
• Types in the style of a bored housewife impersonating a stereotyped teen. Repeats "lol" - is this really how teens communicate? Performative cuteness that is too cliché for an actual teen ("heyyyy").
• Inconsistency in confected traits such as slippage in use of decapitalization.

Newgon Organization strongly warns its followers against the idea of communicating with supposed minors for "sexual" purposes. If a person finds it impossible to resist fantasy cybersex, they should make it clear from stage one (and record it), that it is a fantasy discussion, and that they believe beyond reasonable doubt, that they are communicating with an adult. Under some laws (e.g. "Sexual Communication With a Child" in the UK) meeting a decoy isn't even necessary for a conviction.

Who has an "AAM problem"?

See minor attracted community for further insight.

Multiple moral "gatekeepers" of social media, including members of the LGBT community (where "loved boys" were sheltered in the 70s, 80s and even 90s) are known to police and report AAMs. They derogatorily refer to them as a "problem". One of the ironies of this policing action, is that many of the self-proclaimed AAMs are likely to be poseurs, members of Anonymous or organized criminals.

• Twitter.com - according to numerous people on said website.
• Discord - frequently claimed on social media.
• Chansites.
• Modern social media platforms in general.
• Wickr and Telegram.

Gallery

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  An early mention in 2006
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  Examples of minors or purported minors seeking to sell content on Twitter.com
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  Another such example
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  Example of a more obvious fake AAM

See also

• Minor Attracted Person
• Minor attracted neologisms