Mu Perspectives
Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members and Staff Writers in blog format. These essays do not represent the collective policies or positions of Mu, which are best summarized by our principles here, and elsewhere on our site.
Our lead authors: Brian Ribbon, Jim Burton, Percy Shelley, Tommaso Battista.
Mu Lowdown article by Dan Finkelstein.
50 million children. Left unattended with millions of males who pose well over 3-4x the normal risk for child sexual offending among men. It's the one thing we DIDN'T want to happen.
But every day, America's usually hyper-vigilant parents are willingly sending their kids to public schools, where these superpredators are lurking in the shadows.
The problem is hardly acknowledged, but numbers don't lie! Statistics have backed this up across multiple types of child sexual offending. Boys aged 12-17 are far more likely to offend against a child, and be prosecuted for it, than any other age group. In other words, more li...
Jim Burton
Last week, I found and shared an article by Scott Yenor for First Things, a long-running Christian-Conservative journal out of America. Yenor is a Lutheran; he is also a member of a “secretive, men-only Christian Nationalist organization”, yet much of his retelling of gay history and respectability politics was surprisingly agreeable and uncannily accurate. It was almost as if the married father of five had been a fly on the wall, during this entire episode of militant fa...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
If you have been anything like tuned in to the Twitter/Fandom "age-gap discourse" or "Epstein saga" on social media during the last 10 years, you might have become famili...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
As I detailed in my previous Lowdown article, America has a strange fixation with punishing individuals for exhibiting what it considers to be unusual sexual proclivities. Often, this punishment follows many decades after an offender has served their sentence. The state also turns a blind-eye to registry-assisted murders, which are are now so common, another has transpired since I wrote my article last month. But this hysteria has also seemingly taken a hold of American parents who seek to punish their own...
Dan Finkelstein
I fully appreciate this might feel like boiling the ocean, or even asking the Free Palestine movement to get into bed with the Directors of Raytheon, but here I would like to raise the possibility of a MAP Law-Enforcement Collaboration. If anything, as a conversation starter.
The precedents have always been strong. B4U-ACT, a collaboration between MAPs and clinicians has been going for almost a quarter of a century, and even successfully obtained state funding during its formative years under the late MAP thought-leader, Michael Melsheimer. By playing the long game, and thinking outside the box, MAPs managed to foster an identity and genuine, o...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
America is well known for its uniquely punitive Sex Offender Laws, and cruel practice of incarcerating offenders (violent or otherwise) indefinitely after they have served their time.
In the 1990s, America began to ramp up deployment of one of its great social experiments, one...
Brian Ribbon
This article contains highly distressing content and imagery.
A major purpose of the 'war on pedophiles' is supposedly the protection of children. Perhaps the most vociferous aggressors in this regard are the USA and the UK. It is therefore not surprising that, earlier this year, tarty Trump fangirl Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla) announced she was to re-introduce a set of bills which would, among other things, "mandate the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of 'producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography". In this article, we will take a depressing look at MAP oppression in America set against the backdrop of wanton disregard f...
Brian Ribbon
Percy Shelley
Pro-Reform is a framework arguing that cautious legal reforms are needed to offer greater rights and protections to MAPs and Youth. The framework being proposed reflects the position of two of Mu's editors, but is not necessarily agreed upon by all members of Mu.
Pro-Reform activists argue that the civil liberties of MAPs and young people don't need to come at the expense of minors' safety. We support a rational and logical approach to prevent actual abuse of children without throwing people in prison unless they've caused harm. Policies shouldn't prohibit things merely on the basis of dis...
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 f...
This article discusses a controversial pro-reform essay and concept titled The Push, introduced on Yesmap Wiki by BLueRibbon in May 2024.
Percy Shelley
Brian Ribbon
Foreword (Percy Shelley)
When Brian Ribbon returned to the MAP activist community in 2024 after a 14-year-long hiatus, his first piece entitled The Push generated a lot of controversy. It was intended as a warning that MAPs, facing all the various pressures arrayed against us, might act out of desperation in ways that hurt themselves and others. The essay was written from a place of frustration over trag...