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 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...
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...
Mu Lowdown (easy-reading) article by Jim Burton.
Examples of attractions between minors and adults are surprisingly easy to find in popular culture, despite the tide of hysteria enveloping the mainstream media. One can only assume the theme sells just as well to the public as it does to lawmakers and shrinks.
But what happened when MAPs took the initiative, and decided to put out their own graphical and audio productions? Magazines have long been known as a staple of the MAP community. Indeed, they were an essential lifeline in pre-internet times.
A recent deep-dive into the archives by researchers in the community has also revealed...