"Mu University" core reading pack

[Jim Burton]

You are proposing something like a "crash course" or "mental gym" for readers on our topic?

Who are your targets? Researchers, activists, journalists, influencers, or a combination?

Could we just be describing recommended reading for the encyclopedia project?

[PorcelainLark]

For ancient and modern history, Harry Benjamin's book Prostitution and Morality (1964), has a specific section on child prostitution in the chapter Varieties of Prostitution.

[Lennon72]

You have most certainly put a lot of thinking into this. I really have nothing to say about this other than I really like this idea.

[Artaxerxes II]

2. Ancient history of minor attraction

• Greece and Rome
• Japan
• Middle East

Africa
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities by Murray, Stephen O.; Roscoe, Will

Age-discrepant relationships in the animal kingdom
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bagemihl, Bruce
Rind

[Harlan]

To be honest, my target is mostly primarily MAPs who are unfamiliar with the research, don't know where to start and would like content segmented by theme with accompanying commentary.
...
Right now there is stuff like FAQs, and there are wikis like Newgon. I'm thinking of something more approachable to bridge the gap.

This description also applies to non-MAPs, those who out of curiosity would like to learn about MAPs.

Ideally, it would be nice to make a short video series of mini-lectures about MAP community (like Harvard CS50 course posted on YouTube), about the MAP history, the ethical principles of MAP, about the list of literature, a brief summary of the main studies, debunking myths, etc.

[RoosterDance]

I want to help, but I'm not sure I can commit the time.
But I'm curious, where ya going?

[Jim Burton]

I just went ahead and made Paternotte recommended reading on some of the recent history with LGBT politics.

Here is the paper, it could do with copying and reposting on Yesmap.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/1363460713511103

[Bookshelf]

It isn't necessarily related to MAPs, but I was recently reading a book called 'Empire and Sexuality - The British Experience' which goes in to how prudish Victorian-era views on sex were exported to the rest of the world via the British Empire. It doesn't explicitly talk positively about pedophilia, but if read from a MAP perspective like I did, it could help explain the spread of sexceptionalism throughout the world.

[RoosterDance]

Prison.

I suspected as much. You truly have my sympathy.
Here's hoping for that miracle.

It isn't necessarily related to MAPs, but I was recently reading a book called 'Empire and Sexuality - The British Experience' which goes in to how prudish Victorian-era views on sex were exported to the rest of the world via the British Empire.

Indeed. I read the same thing in another book. Learning the history behind our ethics behind sex has been very fascinating. And now America, in all it's great influence, is spreading that same prudishness again to the rest of the world. Here's an interesting quote from that book:

The English and American legal approach to sexual deviance has always been unusually harsh. This becomes quite apparent when one studies the sex laws of other societies. Most of them are much more tolerant. Curiously enough, the experiences of these societies do not seem to be of any interest to Americans. Thus, it is not uncommon to find American legislators quoting the Bible in defense of stricter legal control, but virtually none of them ever considers the available practical record in other countries. Some of these countries have had only minimal sex legislation for more than a hundred years, and by now they know very well what does and does not work. Still most of the discussion in England and America, even among legal scholars, remains parochial, as if nothing could be learned from the experience of others.

[CLover36]

Prison.

Is Fragment still with us?