Re: deviladvocating...and a few questions

I don't want to sound like a parrot but I will say this again: Individual MAA's need to find thier own way of dealing with thier issues (while staying within legal and ethical boundaries) and the best thing we can all do for each other is to help individual MAA's use thier own reason to determine what path is most suitable for them: if some of us wish to actively pursue platonic relationships with AGs of LGs...great, if some of us do not feel comfortable doing that...then that should be respected as well. I will also repeat for the upteenth time that NEEDING girls is never healthy whether that be needing them for sexual or platonic relationships. Due to these beliefs I support your position 100%.

I acknowledge that platonic relationships between MAA's and Minors would have the potential to benefit the Minors in question and possibly also to promote acceptance of MAA's (not necessarily greater sexual freedom for MAAs/AAMs though). But even so I don't think that anyone should be looking down on anyone for avoiding platonic relationships with minors. Not everyone has the same talents and abilities and some of us may not be suited for platonic relationships with Minors in the current climate. Furthermore there are a ton of problems/issues in the world today (war, famine, disease..etc) can anyone honestly say that they are doing eveything they can to remedy those situations? I am sure that most of us could possibly donate more to charity, give blood more frequently, do more volunteer work..etc. And does anyone here honestly give to EVERY SINGLE BEGGAR that they come across? The point that I am trying to make is that everyone makes tradeoffs between altruistic actions and looking after their own self interest. We could ALL be doing more so I think that people should focus on being more altruistic themselves and by being a good example than by looking down on others for their alleged (don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his moccassins) lack of altruism.

BTW Dissident I perhaps should have answered the thread that you wrote this in but that thread is making it's way towards the bottom of the page. In your discussion below with BLue HAven you said:

QUOTE: "What I appreciate most about my hebephilia is that I have a love for youth that few typical adults have. I admire what I believe are the most amazing group of human beings on this planet. I have eternal youth on the inside...no matter how much I may age on the outside, on the inside I remain as young as I was when I was a teen,"

Correct me if I am wrong but my interpretation of the above Quote (and of your response to my "Relationship Dynamic" post) is that you are attracted to teen girls because you yourself still feel like a teen inside so you can relate to them better. It also seems from the above quote that you're hebephilia is linked somehow to a general facsination with youth. If this is the case is it you're opinion that being a Hebephile implies that you feel like a teen inside, want to relate to AGs in a manner consistent with you feeling like a teen on the inside and having a general facsination with youth...or is that just your own personal variation of it? I ask you this because I do NOT feel like a teen on the inside, nor do I have a general fascination with youth (but I am sympathetic to many youth rights causes) and my preference in dating teenage girls (hypothetically speaking of course) is for a more Older Man/Younger Girl dynamic. This does not mean that I feel superior to an Adolescent Girl at all, it's just that to me the beauty of an Adult Male/Adolescent Girl relationship would be a complimentary tradeoff between my greater experience (but in my case not greater romantic experience LOL!) and greater ability to care for her and her youthfulness. My question is what is your opinion of "Hebephiles" such as myself? Are we just a different type of Hebephile, not true Hebephiles at all...etc?