thread: why are we anonymous?

## thread: why are we anonymous?

#### 26 June 2018
from twitter and bluesky threads

### bly

| Surely if we want to campaign, we should come out and deanonymise? It's not so easy. Thread: Why do anti-contact, never-offended MAPs use anonymous identities online? We've done nothing wrong, so we should be able to come out with our real names, right? > > The answer for me is partly about the effects on myself but as much about the effects on other people. (1) Certainly, any out pedophile (even if never offending) can expect to lose their job, as employers protect their reputations (which they could probably do with indemnity) > > (2) You have to find somewhere to live where you're hopeful local vigilantes or angry people will bot be able to assault you. (3) If you have a partner and an extended family, whether you stay with them or not, you can't be sure your decision won't negatively affect them. > (4) Your extended family might include young people who could do without the stress of people knowing their relative is a MAP. (5) You expose everyone you ever knew to a period of wondering what they should have done (either for or against you). > (6) In seeking to establish a blameless reputation in a world that doesn't want to hear that from a pedophile, you encourage hundreds of internet warriors to lie about you, and people from your past to consider dealing with their new ambivalence about you > > and their fear of being associated with you by demonising you in public (which is easy to understand). Against all these downsides, the upside is you no longer live a lie, though you cannot undo any collateral damage from the lie's ending. > > Some people have been forced out by doxxing, others in the future perhaps will be brave enough to declare themselves MAP under their real life identities. However, I hope those sceptical of our motivations for anonymity can acknowledge this bind we're in. || About the author: I have been writing and talking about the experience of being a pedophile since 2017. Once on twitter until my account was banned in 2020, I co-led Virtuous Pedophiles from 2021 to 2025. I now continue to look for ways to improve the lives of pedophiles, but never at the expense of harming children. I have never viewed illegal material, and never sought or engaged in sexual activity with any child. The rest of my life is countryside walking, friends, Radio 3 and feeling doleful about ageing. |

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