When everything is a sinister conspiracy - the burning of the PIE witches
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 2:05 pm
This article is from my new project. We'll figure out a cleaner way to share personal articles like this fairly soon. I'm posting it in General Discussion for now.
PIE, or the 'Paedophile Information Exchange', was NAMBLA's lesser known British cousin. Born during the sexually progressive period of the 1970s, they sprung up alongside a flurry of radical reformist groups covering what would now be considered part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Their members included pedophiles, hebephiles, ephebophiles, and radical queers, many of whom have distanced themselves from the now very unfashionable 'P' word.
In early 2025, the writer Alex Renton published a series of articles and podcasts on the rather boring 'revelation' that an ancient PIE membership list had been leaked to him. It appears that the document was leaked without authorization by a police officer named Dave Flanagan, first to social worker Peter McKelvie and then finally on to Renton. The podcasts were preceded by a sensationalist BBC article proclaiming "Men on secret 1970s pro-paedophile list could still work with children today", an amusingly dull anecdote given the vast swathes of anonymous MAPs working with children across the world. These men, the BBC added, had not been convicted of any offense, essentially endorsing them as the second coming of Mother Teresa given the extremity of the criminalization of any possible avenue of MAP sexual expression.
I'm going to start by analyzing the podcast episodes and their implications one-by-one, before moving on to a broader discussion. The episode 'titles' in the subheadings are my own, not Renton's.
https://www.brianribbon.com/home/when-e ... ie-witches
PIE, or the 'Paedophile Information Exchange', was NAMBLA's lesser known British cousin. Born during the sexually progressive period of the 1970s, they sprung up alongside a flurry of radical reformist groups covering what would now be considered part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Their members included pedophiles, hebephiles, ephebophiles, and radical queers, many of whom have distanced themselves from the now very unfashionable 'P' word.
In early 2025, the writer Alex Renton published a series of articles and podcasts on the rather boring 'revelation' that an ancient PIE membership list had been leaked to him. It appears that the document was leaked without authorization by a police officer named Dave Flanagan, first to social worker Peter McKelvie and then finally on to Renton. The podcasts were preceded by a sensationalist BBC article proclaiming "Men on secret 1970s pro-paedophile list could still work with children today", an amusingly dull anecdote given the vast swathes of anonymous MAPs working with children across the world. These men, the BBC added, had not been convicted of any offense, essentially endorsing them as the second coming of Mother Teresa given the extremity of the criminalization of any possible avenue of MAP sexual expression.
I'm going to start by analyzing the podcast episodes and their implications one-by-one, before moving on to a broader discussion. The episode 'titles' in the subheadings are my own, not Renton's.
https://www.brianribbon.com/home/when-e ... ie-witches