Thank you for making this post, Stahn. Your support was much appreciated, as I really didn't know what to expect after announcing to the board that I attended the last workshop. And I am glad that by sharing my experience, I have put you (and others in the community) more at ease with B4U-Act and more inclined to go to one of the workshops in the future. You would not be expected to do a presentation if you didn't want to; answering questions and offering insights during the discussions would be more than sufficient.

Now, to address this important point of yours:

You said:
One of the interesting and positive moments of the workshop was when one of the MHP's there made it clear that she was fascinated and genuinely interested (as opposed to reviled) with the idea of a man my age thinking that a 14 year old girl was extremely amazing and someone that I would be interested in dating had the laws allowed it.

I say:
Do you think she'd be this cool if the age was 7 to 11? To be honest 14 is a no brainer. 14 y.o.'s are at the healthy child bearing age. What if the number was 7 to 11 (prepubescence). How do they feel about adult contact or attraction to prepubescents?

Discussing the subject of actual sexual contact between adults and minors of any age group is NOT on B4U-Act's agenda at this time. The org's administration does not believe the public is ready to discuss this topic rationally at this time, and they are wary of throwing too much at the public at once and to move ahead one step at a time, starting with topics that are more readily debatable at this time.

Now, as for your statement of how the MHP's there felt about attraction to pre-pubescents as opposed to adolescents: in our culture, it should be noted that many, many people do not make a distinction between children and adolescents under 18, and the latter are considered "children" just as much as prepubescents are (though, admittedly, this situation seems to be slowly changing, though it's clear that our culture loathes hebephilia almost as much as pedophilia, when the media and antis even bother to make a distinction in the first place). It should be noted that some of the MAA's in attendance there were attracted to pre-pubescent children and the MHP's treated them and their concerns with as much respect as they did that of the adolescent-lovers. Though it's possible that the MHP's there may currently be more able to understand adult attraction to adolescents than to prepubescents (though this was NOT discussed as it would have been way off topic), they clearly did not think that adult attraction to prepubescents was any more evil or pathological than adult attraction to adolescents. I think they are willing to give pedos as fair a shake as hebes. In fact, Paul Christiano is a pedo, not a hebe, and he was given much sympathy by the MHP's present following his terrific presentation at the workshop.

Thank you again for this post, and maybe I will see you at a future workshop :)