Big 3 (Paraphilia)
The "Big 3/Big Three" refers to the controversial and extremely online concept of pedophilia (or even MAP identity in general) as encompassing one part of a triad of highly-divergent "paraphilias", made complete by Zoophilia and Necrophilia. It is most often referred to within pediverse servers, erotic fiction fandoms, and online communities of marginalized people, e.g. paratwt (paraphilic communities on X.com).
Criticism
One major problematic of the "Big 3" concept is its focus on presumed social invalidity of the traits as operative in their classification as paraphilic, while at the same time erroneously hinting at their commonality. For example, sadism, perhaps the most common "paraphilia", along with infantilism, is excluded from the concept. This has been criticized as reifying social norms, encouraging the ghettoization of deviant communities from "more acceptable" paraphiles, and their conflation with "less acceptable" paraphiles in the public eye.
Another criticism has been that some individuals (e.g. Zoos, Boylovers, MAPs) who fall under the purview of the "Big 3" consider themselves to be experiencing patterns of attraction to individuals, i.e. to be sexually inclined/oriented and not experiencing kinks or fetishes in this regard. Kinks, fetishes, paraphilias might exist, according to these critics, but in parallel with orientations or patterns of attraction.[2]
The term has been described on pediverse as having aspects of edgelording about it, in that it needlessly sensationalizes a person's subjective world while attempting to elaborate it.