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.

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No, Pederasty is not the last seat on the "innate capacity" bus

26-01-2026 01:12 / LGBT, politics, society, US, Paraphile Alliance, identity politics, MAP Pride, trans identity, Zoophilia

Pederasty, particularly in Ancient Greece has for decades been studied as a historical anomaly or curiosity. This has led to some attempts at idealizing or restoring these traditions

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...