"Why don't you have a seat over there?" ~ Chris Hansen
The era between 2004-2011 in some ways is probably the era best seen as a Dark Ages. Especially for BL communities. To Catch A Predatory on TV, supported by Perverted Justice. But PJ didn't just stop with the TV stings, they were working almost full time to dox members of all the major MAP forums (though none of us were using "MAP" yet). Multiple core members of the community were arrested. The Adam Walsh Act was a piece of federal legislation that unified and strengthened state sex offense regstries and in response NARSOL was founded. This era basically seemed to end with the most egregious arrests of them all, the Azov films arrested. Hundreds of men globally were arrested for non-sexual nudist images that had previously been deemed legal by multiple sources. The punitive nature of hysteria seemed to be at or near its peak.
2004 - NBC's TV show To Catch a Predator collaborates with Perverted Justice
2004 - Visions of Alice started
2004 - Malesky and Ennis analyse "Supportive Distortions" on BoyChat. Possible the first research on non-forensic MAPs (to confirm)
c.2005 - 'AP' does multiple TV interviews
2005 - Pedologues begins
2005 - Seven NAMBLA members caught in sting (arguably the last time it was relevant)
2006 - SureQualityRadio shut down after admin arrests
2006 - BC user Sparks tries to argue a pro-c stance in court, arguing religious freedom. He is sentenced to 26 consecutive life sentences.
2006 - Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity founded (NE)
2006 - Suicide of Bill Conradt (due to To Catch a Predator sting)
2006 - Attracted to Children founded to combat vigilante hatred, popularizes "MAP"
2006 - Canada raises the age of consent from 14 to 16
2006 - Adam Walsh Act passed
2006 - Pedologues ends with Rookie's dox
2007 - NARSOL founded
2007 - To Catch a Predator's final season
2007 - Jack McClellan makes multiple TV appearances
2007 - PedoWikiWars 1.0
2007 - Newgon founded
2007 - Boyland Online founded
2008 - Germany, under EU pressure criminalizes Youth Porn (14-17 year olds), in addition to Child Porn
2008 - BC webmaster Jimf3 arrested
2008 - PeeJ transforms into Evil Unveiled
2008 - BoyChat websmaster Dylan Thomas arrested after being investigated by Evil Unveiled
2008 - B4UACT workshops begin
2008 - TOR Browser released
2009 - Richard Yuill's University of Glasgow thesis finally published after 5 years of battle
2009 - Boylover.net taken down with multiple arrests
2009 - "Hardwired" episode of Law and Order SVU (inspired by Newgon)
2009 - Louis Theroux visits Coalinga State Hospital (civil commitment)
2010 - lek dies. State funding of B4UACT ends
2010 - Minnesota releases the first ever people from civil commitment (despite running it since 1995)
2010 - Last meeting of Ipce, combined with an IBLD event
2011 - Azov arrests
2011 - Judith Reisman appears on FOX news after infiltrating a B4UACT meeting
2011 - Sarah Goode publishes Paedophiles in society: reflecting on sexuality, abuse and hope (first published use of MAP?)