A sex therapist employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is advocating for the feelings of pedophiles with a social media video explaining why society should stop using the word pedophile and start saying “minor-attracted persons,” or MAPs.
“Pedophile has 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,” Miranda Galbreath said in her video, which has been removed from YouTube but is still available on Twitter. “I also prefer person-first language that recognizes that any label we might apply to a person is only part of who they are and doesn’t represent everything that they are. We are all people first, with many different facets are parts of ourselves. And this includes folks who are attracted to minors.”
