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.

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对“未成年被吸引人”一词的学术使用回顾


尽管它起源于在线支持恋童癖的团体，但“未成年人被吸引者”（MAPs） 一词已被一些学术研究人员用作“恋童癖”一词的中立和非污名化的替代方案。这个词从恋童癖倡导者转移到学术学术界一直备受争议。声称使用“未成年吸引的人”一词使恋童癖正常化或支持恋童癖的说法值得更仔细审查。本文基于对 2015 年至 2023 年间所有同行评审论文的快速证据回顾，这些论文的标题和/或摘要中使用了“minor attracted”一词的变体。筛选后，确定了 30 项研究进行综述。我们的分析采用了主题方法来理解该奖学金中术语 MAP 的构建和使用。分析发现，MAP 一词以不同且相互矛盾的方式进行操作，但是，文献广泛同意 MAP 构成了受压迫的性少数群体，他们受到不应有的污名化和歧视。我们指出了这种对 MAP 的同情框架与创造 MAP 一词的亲恋童癖倡导团体的政治目标之间的相似之处，许多 MAP 研究从中招募他们的研究参与者。该审查得出的结论是，在缺乏足够的自我反省和偏见意识的情况下，与亲恋童癖团体的学术合作可以产生将儿童性虐待的风险和危害降至最低的工作，并有可能使儿童性虐待的预防和治疗工作失去合法性。