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What could a "MAP revolutionary strategy" look like?

I think that repression of sexuality is a powerful tool for the state to control its people. For this reason, when the gay movement could no longer be ignored in the west, LGTB rights were regularised in such a way that a minimal number of changes had to be made to the system.

The trend seems to be that other structures like patriarchy, where sexual coercion is the norm, are giving in power to the state, that legislates over the valid forms of sexuality. So coercion is diminishing while repression —or, more accurately, regularisation— is increasing.

I don't think this trend will stop without a revolution that turns everything upside-down, because sexual repression is just to powerful for the state to give it away. So I agree, just thinking that AMSC can be legalised and everything else stays the same seems a bit naïve to me. It seems incompatible with our ideas of childhood and family, much more so than the gay movement.

While I am not a fan of our civilization, it has a lot of inertia and a bit of activism is not going to overthrow it. And also, a minority being stigmatised is not enough of a reason for such a radical change (probably greater than the French and Russian revolutions), as much as one would like to act on one's attraction. And you have to take into account the risk that removing the power from the state on people's sexualities (repression) could result in some group of people taking this power in the (arguably worse) form of coercion.