Jim Burton

In episode 8 of the recent Open Hearts podcast, we hear from Blossom, a Zoophile community member and X/Twitter user who has seen significant progress towards an alliance between MAPs and Zoophiles since their entry into the community some time around 2023. The basis for this alliance, is that all paraphilias (as they see it) are subject to the same type of stigma from the same hostile groups.

It then follows, why not work together with members of the paraphile community towards our common goals?

One important argument here is that when we drill down and ask ourselves what is really preventing the communities from working together, it is ultimately a visceral discomfort or a feeling of superiority on the part of one or the other.

From this conversation, we might conclude that overcoming this unfamiliarity is the ultimate test of our alliance's maturity, and a sign that we are ready to reject the kind of thinking that will only be used against other minorities in the future.

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