I received an e-mail from the administrator of a sex offender advocacy group. It states:
Hi Brian,
Your readers at your blog and at Mu might like to know about a Facebook group called SOlidarity that I founded in 2022. It focuses on advocacy for people incarcerated for sex charges. While as a group it does not--and will not--take a specific stance on minor attraction, it could be a useful vehicle for the dissemination/normalization of pro-MAP ideas.
Season's Greetings,
SOlidarity Admin
As I do not have a Facebook account, I have been unable to vet this group. Join at your own risk.
i see this post is last year...but come now, don't you all KNOW of the MANY groups now (in the u.s.a.) having formed? Groups like NARSOL and SOSEN, for example. Aren't such groups happening in Europe?
Jim Burton wrote: Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:50 pm
Anything Facebook - only, there are always concerns.
I agree with you, and I thoroughly despise how a few corporations now control the vast majority of interaction on the internet.
However, even many MAPs now sadly gravitate toward these services.
As such, I posted the link with a warning that it was at one's own risk.
Anarchist critique, yes -with PAN-archies of visioNaRy intuition-solutioNbecomiNgz!!!! Inspired by youNg dudes' GRANd spiritz, long b4 we/they r collectively reduced/psychologically-genocided into Compliant GROANups enslaved to The 'Misery Loves Company'
BLueRibbon wrote: Sun Dec 21, 2025 9:56 am
While as a group it does not--and will not--take a specific stance on minor attraction
Cowardly. And while im not necessarily opposed to helping them may I remind everyone that they need us and not the other way around? I always say this but I think its true, MAPs will never make progress if they don't use the leverage they have. This is very much a perfect captured constituency that we would have leverage with. Think about this: most MAPs I know don't have convictions and most people who want SO reform do and their activism is very much limited by what the justice system will allow them to do.
Why not use that? We could probably do things they can't and RSO reform has a rather narrow constituency in the first place. They have to do concrete things and make concrete statements/concessions on our behalf. They don't have to have to be a full-fledged radical pro-c newgon manifesto but they have to do something for us. And if they claim they will and go back we cut off support.
One of the least popular movements of all time, the sex offender reform movement, wont speak up on our behalf. Thats how stigmatized we are. And their cause is closely related to our own. Why don't we figure out a way to use leverage where we have it and change that?
Because, if you're funneling the free labor, resources and solidarity from our people to people who will sell us out at the very first second (and saying they won't make a statement indicates this) then your likely doing more harm than good by giving them free labor and attention they can benefit from.
I wouldn't be too down on that social media group. I won't be joining it, I'm not on social media, but I think change does require going to where people are and speaking out.
This forum is great for activists and map discussion but nothing we post here will change the world or anyone's opinions because it's only the choire here. The ground work is set here between activists but the fight happens out there, where the public is.
But a group such as that I don't think will change the world either because it's little better than here. Yes it's more in the open on Facebook but members will only be the choire or the usual haters. Change via digital activism will only come from many small strands of activism in unrelated groups and communities. Not hard selling, not confrontation, not begging or threatening people to like maps. When I was on Facebook there were local community groups and sometimes there would be a post about something very anti-map. For example, there was a guy in my area who was a pedophile and they put his address in the group and just told people to avoid it. I did push back a little saying he was part of our community and just blanking him like this is more likely to isolate him and increase risk, it would be better to just be polite, treat him like anybody else. I'm not suggesting asking him to babysit, but if he was a danger he wouldn't be in the public, we shouldn't be too quick to create problems that don't need to exist. Some people disagreed and hated that idea but others were supportive and I saw some cracks appear in the anti posts. Just gently challenging ideas where possible, that's where change comes.
So join that group if you like, I won't be, but I won't condem it either. I may rejoin social media some day to again start to speak out gently where I can.
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