For the past several months AIDungeon has been a way for me to explore my mind as a victim of abuse since 7. Before I ever felt safe trying to detail and map my mind and emotions, I came here to a lot of promises that the information, while obviously not totally private, would not be actively looked into barring some other violation. I would like to thank this community for helping me have confidence again and feel like a person.
I also trusted that the stories that were unpublished and just for me could be anything my mind could create, and reflect any emotions and ideas I had. This has been majorly instrumental in me procesing what's happened to me and dealing with the fact that the effects of it on me feel permanent. I have PTSD and severe anxiety, and I've had to recover from underperforming in school and a lot of drug use.
(pressed enter too early) This programme allowed me to finally normalise my excessive pains and to finally sleep well at night, my nightmares of abuse have steadily been less frequent. I don't think I can ever have a "normal" sexuality, that's not possible now. Some part of my head always wants to age regress back to that time, and my therapist knows, and my caring friends know, and they've thankfully accepted me even with these weird head fantasies. Not approve of, mind you. That's probably a good thing, but they accept me. And for that, I'm grateful.
I don't really know what to do now, my therapist knows I used this programme to help. Moreover, they were actually a strong suggestor of me exploring these feelings this way, as trying anything in reality even with my loving SO can trigger bad episodes. For the purposes of my own trauma, fantasy is a unique expression where I have full control over what happens to me, and when, and why. That's something NO real child gets to do when they're abused.
Don't get me wrong, fantasy absolutely helps shape reality, they aren't completely separate. But they can't be treated with the same gravity. Not even just for the people struggling with urges, but for
victims like me. We needed the ability to create fantasies of our own as much as anyone unaffected by this change did.
When you decided this, for whatever reasons, you at least took away what was at least for me the safest way of normalising myself in a world that's still in ruin. I'm not all better now, I'm still nervous wreck but for the first time in my life I felt completely secure in my sexual expression, completely without shame or embarassment or even a hint of doubt, when I could use this programme. So thank you for all the time I did have, it was the best I've gotten.
If there's any other victims out there, you can always talk to me, and maybe we could form a discord or something, there's sometimes strength in numbers especially if we all ended up here. You're doing great, whoever you are.

Good luck no matter what you do, your life is yours to live.
I guess as a tl;dr, not only predators used minor ages for sexual fulfillment, their victims do, too. It's a multifaceted issue and help comes through education and social change, not cutting victims off.
P.S. The worst abuse is on the non-able-bodied or with mental challenges. Highlight them, stand up for them, end the isolation of shut doors and no social sphere that perpetuates the cycles of abuse these kids go through. Please, generations of future ones will thank you for it.
P.P.S.
Also, you know what never helps? When someone who isn't a victim acts psychopathic about predators and tells me how they'll torture them and kill them. That's not what I need to get better, my improvement is not shackled to their suffering. I need a loving social space, time, and the ability to figure out what I am now.