Attraction ≠ Action

Attraction ≠ Action (Attraction is not [equivalent to] action) is a slogan emanating from Asexual and anti-contact MAP activism in the 10s. As a broader talking point, it has been used by MAPs roughly since the second-wave of the MAP Movement in the 00s.

Attraction is not Intention

A further point that is sometimes made by pro-c MAPs is that one's attraction or inclination is not equivalent to intention.

Relevance

The speed at which Westerners and Antis ascribe behavior or intention to MAPs, in constructing a demonology of "Pedophiles", has been seen as curious by MAPs themselves, for some time.

Some MAPs and other authors have suggested that this phenomenon is of relevance to psychological reaction-formation. In other words, parents (for example), who experience feelings of attraction toward their own children, have a need to distinguish these attractions from socially stigmatized forms of attraction such as pedophilia. Therefore, their psychological defense mechanism is to ascribe behavior, intention and malign motive to the "typical" pedophile.