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The Stranger Danger narrative, which played a key role in stigmatizing MAPs, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to divert feminist activism around claims that the patriarchal family was a site of child abuse in the form of father-daughter incest. Some of the most reliable recent ...

Adding the quote from Halperin, while helpful, still leaves the discussion primarily oriented toward homosexual MAPs. For example, while pederasty is analyzed extensively (the term is used 23 times), the corresponding heterosexual practice, early marriage, is not discussed at all (the word "marriage ...

Thanks for the encouraging responses. I will see what I can come up with. I have posted in another thread here on Mu about this, and also at BC, looking for feedback on various possible approaches.

One that appeals to me is "Hands off Matt Gaetz' non-normative sex life," arguing for sexual privacy ...

This is a very good and useful piece, but the perspective seems to be almost exclusively that of male MAPs whose primary attraction is to boys. How about female MAPs who are attracted to boys and male MAPs who are attracted to girls? These members of our community will not find much in this article ...

Could there be an opportunity for Mu to attract mainstream attention in connection with Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general?

A key element of the opposition to Gaetz appears likely to be allegations he had sex with a 17 yo female. Mu could, consistently with its stated ...

Fragment: ...the current punitive system seems to be having no effect on rates of CSA.

I think the Finnish data supports the idea that rates of AMSC have declined. This suggests we should not argue that the punitive regime is ineffective. On the contrary, we should argue that it is operating to ...

BR: I had a story to make it blow up even more, but we were begged not to post it. We're working on other articles that we hope might go viral.

Being mysterious now, are we?

I have been posting on Boychat since 2015. It's been a lifeline for me, but since I am from the activist generation of the 1970s and still firmly rooted in the NAMBLA perspective, the BC antipathy towards activism has been a constant frustration.

But it seems to me that since Mu began, BC has ...

1. When did you first realize you were a MAP, and how did you feel? What were some issues you faced?

Until high school I mostly thought of it in terms of being gay, and even this I was in denial about (like, maybe I just needed a girlfriend or something?). Even in college I was still madly crushing ...

Peter Pan syndrome became a fake pshrynk thing when a book about it came out in 1983 (just when, no coincidence, the pedo panic was spreading). But the 1954 musical popularized the song "I Won't Grow Up," and resistance to adulthood and its many associated evils is a theme in many if not most ...