University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2024 Dec;25(5):4078-4089. doi: 10.1177/15248380241270028. Epub 2024 Sep 15.
Although it originated within online pro-pedophile groups, the term "minor attracted person" (MAPs) has been adopted by some academic researchers as a neutral and non-stigmatizing alternative to the term "pedophile." The transferral of this term from pedophile advocates to academic scholarship has been highly controversial. Claims that the use of the term "minor attracted people" normalizes or endorses pedophilia deserve closer scrutiny. This paper is based on a rapid evidence review of all peer-reviewed papers between 2015 and 2023 that used variants of the term "minor attracted" in their title and/or abstract. After screening, 30 studies were identified for review. Our analysis took a thematic approach to understanding the construction and use of the term MAPs in this scholarship. The analysis found that the term MAPs was operationalized in different and contradictory ways, however, the literature broadly agreed that MAPs constitute an oppressed sexual minority who are subject to undue stigmatization and discrimination. We point to the similarities between this sympathetic framing of MAPs and the political goals of the pro-pedophile advocacy groups that created the term MAPs, and from which many MAPs studies recruit their research participants. The review concludes that, in the absence of adequate self-reflexivity and awareness of bias, academic collaborations with pro-pedophile groups can produce work that minimizes the risk and harm of child sexual abuse and has the potential to delegitimize child sexual abuse prevention and treatment efforts.
虽然“未成年性吸引者”（minor attracted person，简称 MAP）一词最初出现在支持恋童癖者的线上群组中，但一些学术研究人员已将其采用为一种中立且非污名化的术语，以替代“恋童癖者”一词。该术语从恋童癖倡导者向学术研究领域的转移极具争议性。有人声称，使用“未成年性吸引者”一词是将恋童癖正常化或认可恋童癖，这一说法值得更深入的审视。本文基于对 2015 年至 2023 年期间所有使用“未成年性吸引”这一术语变体作为标题和/或摘要的同行评审论文进行的快速证据综述。经过筛选，确定了 30 项研究进行综述。我们的分析采用主题方法来理解该学术领域中 MAP 这一术语的构建和使用。分析发现，MAP 这一术语的操作方式存在差异且相互矛盾，但文献普遍认为 MAP 构成了一个受压迫的性少数群体，他们遭受了不必要的污名化和歧视。我们指出，这种对 MAP 的同情性框架与创建 MAP 一词的恋童癖倡导团体的政治目标之间存在相似之处，而许多 MAP 研究正是从这些团体招募研究参与者的。综述得出的结论是，在缺乏充分的自我反思和对偏见的认识的情况下，与恋童癖团体的学术合作可能会产生最小化儿童性虐待风险和危害的工作，并且有可能使儿童性虐待预防和治疗工作失去合法性。
