Sex therapist calls pedophiles 'minor-attracted persons,' sparking backlash online
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A licensed sex therapist and counsellor in Pennsylvania sparked a wave of criticism after posting a video online in which she appeared to defend “minor-attracted persons.”
In the since-deleted YouTube video, titled “Let’s talk about minor-attracted persons,” Miranda Galbreath calls pedophiles “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture,” The National Desk reported.
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Galbreath, whose website claims she has 20 years of experience, including working with sex ofenders in state prisons, said the term pedophile has been “moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them.”
She added that she prefers to use “person-first language” which she said “recognizes that any label we apply to a person is only part of who they are and doesn’t represent everything that they are.”
Galbreath argued that “minor-attracted persons,” abbreviated as MAP, are people who have not “chosen” to be attracted to children and teenagers, “just as the rest of us have not chosen whatever our attraction is.”
She ended the video by telling viewers that her website SexualSafetySpace.com has resources for “minor-attracted persons” to find support, The National Desk reported. The website appears to no longer be hosted online.
