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Could you cite the MRI study please? Nothing I'm saying is invalidated by its results, even if they prove convincing. That some pattern might be detected amongst those attracted by youthful forms says little about whether MAP sexualities form a natural class. Again, consider all the different cases I've enumerated. They involve essentially different matters of identity, morality, sociality, gender preference, notions of masculinity and femininity, and so on. They couldn't be more qualitatively distinct and diverse. I did not say CBT has been "specifically" evaluated for MAPs. I said the results of evaluation for typical adults will have included MAPs, since attraction to people in their mid-teens is not untypical. The fact that in cultures across time and place it has been considered completely normal for men to desire and to marry adolescent girls, and for men to desire and fall in love with young adolescent boys (whether the practice was approved of or not), makes it more than clear that the phenomenon of "minor attraction" is commonplace. A crackdown on "sodomy" in Florence in the 16th century found almost two-thirds of the adult male population guilty of the practice, where "sodomy" meant pederasty almost exclusively. In ancient Greece and Rome it was quite obviously commonplace, as it was in medieval Japan. Go to greek-love.com for an extensive collection of resources on the matter. Use TOR though; you won't want the authorities knowing you were truly inquisitive. |