To address the heart of the term "MAP", what is a "minor" anyway? By some social definitions, a 24-year-old is a "minor" by virtue of not being able to rent a car. Is this particular age group off the table for dating by the car rental-enabled community thanks to their industry-imposed contractual handicap and the oft-mentioned "power imbalance" this imposes? By other social definitions, a 16-year-old is not a "minor" because they can work a wage-earning tax-paying job and apply for emancipation. Is it then "wrong" to be attracted to one if they suddenly quit their stint at Circle K?
But this quibbling over the inconsistencies in the cultural cachet of "minor" is beside the point - how is someone's attraction to someone else dependent on a legal status? "Oh man, I'm really hot for a guy because he's legally forbidden from drinking alcohol." Seriously? That's just as plausible as hearing, "Whassup, hot stuff, that IR5 visa is making you extra spicy today!" Being attracted to someone because of a legal status concocted by some politicians long ago sounds like an offbeat fetish for autistic nerds.
Do we have other terms for attraction to other people with special legal statuses? Probation Attracted Persons, or PAPs? Subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice Attracted Persons, or UCMJAPs?
As for me, I am not any kind of chronophile. A woman can be 16, 36, 66, whatever, and if she's attractive in body, personality, intelligence, and temperament, I don't care how old she is. A spirited rejection of current society's intellectually lazy and harmful fixation on age and its relationship to romantic relationships is what started this very subreddit!
As "minor" is a laughably inconsistent legal fiction concocted for the sake of administrative convenience, and especially a fiction the way "minor" is often used on the internet, so too are "minor attracted persons" fictional. One would do well to reject yet another ill-advised identity marker that reifies a legal status category and cultural catch-all that is riddled with injustice.
