{"id":975,"date":"2019-12-05T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutpedophilia.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2019-12-05T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:43:15","slug":"alternatives-to-lucy-faithful-foundations-sex-negative-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutpedophilia.com\/2019\/12\/05\/alternatives-to-lucy-faithful-foundations-sex-negative-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives To Lucy Faithful Foundation’s Sex-Negative Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> This article was updated on 2-26-2020 to reflect some “rebranding” that Stop It Now! UK & Ireland recently did, and to reflect a reply that I received from someone associated with their organization, which is at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, over a period of several months, Lucy Faithful Foundation<\/a> (a UK-based charity that runs Stop It <\/a>Now UK & Ireland<\/a> and is affiliated with Stop It Now Scotland<\/a>, which recently launched the Upstream Project <\/a>with the Scottish Government) worked out a deal with Ender Wiggin (then administrator of MAP Support Club) to allow one of their therapists access to provide a trial run of group chat therapy sessions in MAP Support Club, which is a chat-based community for minor attracted people age 13 and up. During the course of those sessions, it became clear that they took a fundamentally flawed<\/a> approach to fantasy. In short, “Well actually, you are harming yourself<\/strong> because you are reinforcing your attraction to things that are illegal and abusive.” They also recommend methods<\/a> that most would describe as a form of conversion therapy, which is widely condemned as unethical and harmful<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realize that for most people, LFF’s advice is not controversial. However, their approach is harmful for three big reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n