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.
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...
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...