This issue continues the fourth volume of B4QR, and includes short critical summaries of six studies published between August 2023 and April 2024. The featured scholar in the “Meet The New Generation” section of this issue is Jessica VerBout, a PhD student at the Modern Sex Therapy Institute. The full text is available to read for free on our site.
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Participants are needed for a new study conducted by a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the University of Bergen, and Stop it Now. The study is part of Prevent and Protect through Support (2PS), an EU funded project aimed at preventing child sexual abuse and exploitation, including through offering resources to people attracted to children.
The goal of the study is to receive feedback regarding the messaging/approach of a new online support platform for MAPs. The survey covers the following topics: 1) current well-being and motivation for treatment, 2) evaluation of the messages and 3) sexual interests.
People who identify as being attracted to minors are invited to participate by completing an approximately 15 minute survey. Interested potential participants may click the following link to participate or learn more:
Questions about the study can be directed to Viola Westfal (viola.westfal@charite.de).
Disclaimer: B4U-ACT is not affiliated with 2PS, and the perspectives presented in the questionnaire are not endorsed by B4U-ACT. As the study is intended to seek feedback for the program’s messaging and approach, we believe MAPs may want to participate in this study, whether they agree with these perspectives or wish to express dissatisfaction with them.
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Submissions have re-opened for our “Stories of Hope” section on b4uact.org. If you’re someone who is attracted to children or adolescents and wish to share your story on our site, now is your opportunity.
In early 2012, B4U-ACT put out our first call for “Stories of Hope”: personal anecdotes from minor-attracted people about their lives and reasons for hope towards the future. Four stories were posted to the website, from MAPs with various ages, life circumstances, and genders and ages of attraction. The stories reflected varying life experiences, ranging from different hobbies, interests, and relationship statuses, to more difficult to discuss details such as mental health struggles and past criminal convictions.
Now, 12 years later, we’d like to update this section with new stories. The lived experiences of MAPs have changed along with other changes in society, and new resources and reasons for hope have emerged in this time.
If you’d like to submit your own story, please read the following guidelines, and submit using the Google form below, or by email to b4uact-stories-of-hope@protonmail.com.
If you submit via email, please include a first name you’d like associated with the story, and include the statement “I consent to B4U-ACT’s use of my story and pseudonym on its website.” Do not include any information that would trigger mandatory reporting, or that could be used to identify you.
Guidelines:
