Academics and activists are trying to rebrand pedophilia. Canada must reject their euphemisms before the rhetoric becomes reality (Western Standard)

Last week, a Texas high school English teacher was fired after telling her class “don’t judge people for wanting to have sex with five-year-olds.” She urged students to swap the ugly word “pedophile” for “minor attracted person” (MAP.) Parents protested, but anyone following campus debates knew the script.

The euphemism first bubbled up in journals and lecture halls. Dr. Allyn Walker, a transgender scholar now working with Johns Hopkins University’s Child Sexual Abuse Prevention unit, argued that unstigmatized “MAPs” are more likely to seek therapy before acting. Walker said respecting sexual desires should extend to desires most of us find evil and monstrous ...

... None of this means society will soon legalize pedophilia. Most Canadians, left, right, or indifferent, still believe children deserve absolute protection. 

Yet language shapes law, and law guides behaviour. When police manuals and peer-reviewed papers adopt the same polite acronym, the lines begin to blur ...

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