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我們的主要作者：Brian Ribbon、Jim Burton、Percy Shelley、Tommaso Battista。
Brian Ribbon
Originally posted on BrianRibbon.com
Living in a poor country is quite eye-opening. Hygiene is hit-and-miss; you will regularly encounter poor food handling, along with no running water in places that really ought to have it. Even locals get sick quite often, but it's just something that happens, like catching a cold. Electrical safety is alarming; exposed wiring and outlets that spark in buildings with no grounding are common. Most aspects of daily life are essentially a step away from disaster, and yet... absolute disaster rarely happens. If you want to drive yourself insane, you can try to predict bad outcomes as much as you like, but you'll be in a...
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
「支持改革」是一套主張應透過審慎的法律改革，為 MAP 們及青少年提供更多權利與保障的框架。此框架反映了 Mu 兩位編輯的立場，但未必獲得 Mu 所有成員的認同。
支持改革的活動人士主張，MAP 與年輕人的公民自由無需以犧牲未成年人的安全為代價。我們支持採取理性且合乎邏輯的方針，避免在未造成實際傷害的情況下將人送進監獄，同時有效預防對兒童的實際虐待。政策不應僅基於厭惡感或主觀道德觀來禁止某些行為，也不應盲目假設哪些措施能有效預防傷害，這一點在監管「未成年人禁忌影像」（PIM）的政策上尤為明顯。本文延續我們先前提出的 AMSC（成人-未成年人性接觸）改革提案（連結），該提案旨在平衡未成年人的保護與自主權，同時也呼應我們關於「軟性」社會改革的文章。我們將探討PIM政策，並說明我們對法律改革的理念。
本文將使用的術語
在 Mu，我們使用縮寫「PIM」（未成年人禁忌影像）作為一個中立的術語，以反映並非所有違法的未成年人影像都是色情或虐待性質，且這些影像往往描繪的是年齡較大的未成年人，對他們而言，「兒童」一詞未必適用。我們並不否認存在色情、虐待性質且以極年幼兒童為主角的影像。然而，我們選擇採用精確的術語來處理此事，以涵蓋「被禁止的」範圍之全部內容，從對學步兒的駭人虐待，到由AI生成的、穿著比基尼擺姿勢的青少年卡通圖像等皆包含在內。若用「CSAM」（兒童性虐待材料）等術語用於指稱後者是非常荒謬的，此類充滿情緒色彩的語言，除了...
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...