The Prevention Podcast

In Episode #5 NOMAP "PY" talks to Candice about his awareness of being a teen with an attraction to boys, having autism and his curiosity related to his diagnosis and attraction, coming out to his mom, advice for allies and therapists and more! 

On Episode #4, Candice interviews "Timothy" who is a husband and father who also identifies as non-offending nonexclusive minor attracted person. Listen as Timothy shares his awareness of his attraction, some challenges he faced throughout the years with keeping his attraction a secret, getting support from VirpEd, coming out to his mother and granddaughter and more. 

Human being, MAP, and Advocate for other MAPs, Elliott joins us to update us on the past couple of years of getting support in the MAP community, starting therapy, and creating a podcast for other MAPs. We explore how he's weathered the online storm of getting accurate information out there about NOMAPs. 

In this episode Candice visits with Kiron who has been on our podcast before. Kiron shares about being a survivor of sexual abuse, a history of struggling with an addiction to CSEM after being exposed to it by an abuser, his awareness as a teenager that he was attracted to children, and the support he received from Virped that has helped him get through some incredibly challenging times.  

Kiron, aka 'Kurupa' on VirPed, would like to make themselves known as an available source of support to those in the community!

Candice interviews Dr. Gilian Tenbergen, Assistant Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) on replicating & evaluating our MAP program at SUNY, as well as collaborating with Prostasia to research the needs of MAPs, and more! Have a listen to what has been going on over the past year in MAP research! 

First, we apologize for the poor recording quality. With COVID our recording location is not ideal. Thank you for your patience with us! Listen to this powerful interview with MAP "Kiron" who was abused as a teen including being exposed to CP and found himself addicted, scared, with no where to turn. He was able to stop viewing CP and now works to advocate for child protection. 

In this episode, Candice and awesome human being Timothy talk about MAP support club and how adult and teen MAPs now have a free, safe, confidential forum to get support and guidance which is so important especially during COVID when there is even more isolation happening. 

MAP Elliott and Candice discuss what has changed for him in the past year since coming on our podcast for the first time, including how his relationship with his mother has changed, all the support he has received and his love for helping other MAPs in need. Listen! 

In this podcast episode Candice and Earl Yarington discuss his provocative book "Lolita in the Lions Den or Pre-Tween Juxtaposition", sex education, innocence and more! Have a listen! 

On this episode "Emma" returns to share her thoughts on using the term "pedophile" vs. MAP. We discuss some of the controversy around both terms as well as the importance of using accurate labels. We also discuss the reality that males, females, transgender, non-binary individuals can have attractions to children but be committed to never harming a child.