There’s no perfect formula
Most, if not all, of us, have children in our lives whom we love dearly....
Category: CSA prevention
How Educational Institutes Can Help Spread Child-Protection Awareness
All children deserve to feel safe when they go to school, whether they are in elementary schools, high schools, or university tuition agencies. After all, our children are...
Minor MAPs Need Support, But Society is Failing Them
I was 14 years old when I realized that the attractions I was feeling towards younger kids weren’t normal. Scared and confused, I turned to the internet, where I...
The Motivation-Facilitation Model of Sexual Offending
Child sexual abuse has been a significant and relevant issue for a long time worldwide. Hence some theoretical models and scientific research have been developed regarding...
3 simple steps that can reduce CSA
We tend to look at child sexual abuse (CSA) in terms of something that will happen or has already happened. We should be thinking in terms of prevention. Our first...
Stigma makes it more difficult to fight CSA
When Prostasia Foundation first published my interview with researcher Allyn Walker about their book A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of...
Support for prevention allies under attack
Since Prostasia Foundation published our interview with Dr Allyn Walker earlier this month, a disturbing wave of attacks began to mount against the prevention researcher....
Retraumatization and cultural context
Twenty years ago, the Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study revolutionized our understanding of trauma’s impact on survivors of abuse. Today, more...
Reducing self-stigmatization in MAPs can reduce risks of offending
Minor Attracted Persons, or MAPs, are the target of social and legal censure; they are hated and despised. Often, they hate and despise themselves. Some hope that the...
Foster care: a broken system
The foster system is supposed to provide safety and protection to kids that can't get that anywhere else. Yet, when I was in the system myself, I learned that this is not...