Human first and foremost.

"All the positive outcomes I've heard of have been from anti-contact MAPs. I guess we can wonder about how broadly your own experience will generalize and reach different conclusions."

Beatrice, Mum and Dad, Sibling.

Thus far all positive, with the last as a big "meh" and the the others supportive.

I also outed myself to an SO BLer I knew in RL; that went well too.

Here's the thing. They know about my love of girls. If they care to know whether there's a "politics" of being a Pedo, then they know my stances on that too. But most don't care beyond the issues of orientation and persecutory laws.

While I think that among Pedophile communities it is essential that people be able to discuss how they would respond to the hypothetical society where CLers don't have a gun to their head; that our Non friends don't generally need to hear such abstract hypotheticals.

My friends also know that I'm an Anarchist. They know my stances on our present global political predicaments. But they don't know, nor necessarily care, for Utopian projections about "after the Revolution."

I suppose then from your discussion that the non-contact define themselves as non-contact first and Pedophile second.

I define myself as Pedophile first and those who are near me enough to have heard this know that I'm safe and ethical. I put the human face on Pedophilia, not a "position paper."

We need to be seen as friend, son and sibling first, long before our "position papers" will matter.

Dante