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FairBlueLove wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:35 pm I have skimmed the rest, and everywhere I landed it wasn't much better either.

My favourite part is when he compares sexual contact with children to giving them hard drugs. (Note: I've taken hard drugs as a minor.)

My response will be delayed somewhat because I've got an exceptionally busy week, but it'll happen.

Fragment wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 11:39 pm

CLover36 wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:26 pm

RoosterDance wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:19 pm

Is Fragment still with us?

My appeal paperwork was filed last week. I don't have a hearing date set, yet.

Hoping you make it through to the other side.

It looks like this list could be put back together from the replies, also. But it was Fragment's project, and seemed to duplicate the function of an ongoing project (Mu Encyclopedia). Maybe when I start to publish the encyclopedia, I should just put recommended reading or "Mu University" at the bottom of certain articles.

I’m reading Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children by Steven Bruhm. Looks at the moral panics behind pedophilia in critical essays. Very insightful.

Jim Burton wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:16 pm [To be clear, this is Fragment's thread, but sadly he made a mistake and deleted the OP. Parts, or all of his OP can be found in replies. Fragment will be back here in 2027]

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?

Recommended reading:

BIRTHRIGHTS by Richard Farson (has a section defending kids' choice in sex!)
ESCAPE FROM CHILDHOOD: The Needs and Rights of Children by John Holt (tho does not have anything defending MAPs)

THE AGE TABOO by Dan Tsang

From the youth liberationists of Ann Arbor, MI and Chicago:
"Is Sex the Private Property of Adults?" by Don Crestle, i think published in 1980, in one of the last editions of FPS.

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but will think about it!

To follow up Anarchist of Love
Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine
Argues that protecting children from sex is protecting them from nothing and societal resources would be better spent elsewhere. Mandatory reading imo, though it is out of date

The Fear of Child Sexuality by Steven Angeliedes
Gives a history of sex panics about child sexuality. Argues that while the societal shift to recognize that harm can occur from AMSC that society has gotten to the point where the minor is presumed to have no sexual interiority or desire which isn't true.

Reccomended Reading
Abolish the Family
Very good book on family abolitionism. Not as sympathetic to children as I would like.

Enemy Feminisms
This book is really critical for understanding feminism as a concept. Mainly that feminism is effectively too broad of a term encompassing practically all women lead movements even if they are against liberation. Extremely important analysis

One thing I fear is the community becoming dependent on books that are decades old. While academia has become increasingly hostile to discussion of these ideas without providing sufficient evidence imo to actually shut them down, a vast majority of books on this topic are pre-2010. There's a need to understand what's currently happening in the world as well as the past.