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Welcome to Mu's editorials home, just one part of a bold new approach to Minor-Attracted Person (MAP) support and advocacy! Please use the navigation bar to see what else Mu has to offer. This page documents collective positions, press releases and news concerning Mu. We have separate content feeds for Mu Perspectives and Guest Blogs. Atom 1.0 and RSS feeds are available.
This list, as with the last, is to be continuously updated throughout the two week period, regardless of what articles Mu posts on top of it.
We are discontinuing tagging of stories, as we felt it was not useful. We also encourage Mu readers to post about any of these news stories on MAP Forum, where they will hopefully get feedback.
We strongly suggest to readers who like to comment these pieces at the news site, not to wait for the story to appear here, as it will be too late. Instead, conduct your own Google News searches using the prompts at the bottom of our page and ultra-short-dated time range specifiers, e.g. when:24h,or when:48h. For future archives...
Have you ever wondered how the public perception of "pedophiles" became so distorted, perhaps even more so than MAPs as a wider group?
Have you ever sought a simple way to explain how we arrived at the present situation, and why it never seems to change?
Here, we will try to provide you with the answers to these questions. The post will also serve as a useful resource to share with others who come with the same queries.
There are many debates over the historical causes of pedo-hysteria, with religion, feminism, conservatism, neoliberalism, etc, often ending up on the hook. But it can also be helpful to put aside the divisive blame-gaming and instead take a lo...
CLAIM: "MAP PRIDE" SYMBOLS ARE PART OF A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF "SECRET CODE" USED ONLINE AND ELSEWHERE BY QUEER FOLX TO SIGNAL THEIR CRIMINAL INTEREST IN CHILDREN. THESE SYMBOLS WERE FIRST UNCOVERED 20 YEARS AGO WITH THE PUBLISHING OF AN FBI DOCUMENT ON WIKILEAKS.
FACT CHECK: MOSTLY FALSE ❌
2025 has been a crazy year for conspiracy theories based upon the supposedly widespread, yet also allegedly criminal and secretive use of MAP Pride symbology.
Principally, this has related to spiral designs such as the famous BLogo, first shared in 1997, and the derivative GLogo. While these claims are evident...
Mu is glad to announce it can now operate a MAP news wrap service full time, supported by its editorial staff. We are calling it MAP Alert News.
Here's how it will work. Every two weeks, we will post a blog article like this on the home page. The next period will run from 10 Oct to the end of that month, as this one is covering both late August and part of September. Eventually, each post will cover either the first or last ~15 days of a month.
Each MAP Alert News post will contain a chronological list of all the news stories we find useful, unique or interesting. This list will be continuously updated throughout the period, regardless of what articles Mu posts...
In recent months, an Australian Radical Feminist organization has been making international waves in the world of financial censorship, and MAPs are feeling the heat more than most, it would seem.
Collective Shout would on the face of things, appear to be a legitimate charity - a crusading force for women and girls, fighting unfair "pornified" stereotyping and sexual objectification. Those doing the shouting have sought to target the hucksters behind what they see as pure brain-rot, i.e. platforms and online stores that sell access to independently developed games.
Their rationale is time-honoured; today's cottage industries in gaming content are ultimately poo...
For the most in-depth treatment of the Farmer/Salter group's attacks on the MAP Scholarship, please head over to B4U-ACT's quarterly review.
This past month has been a busy one in academia, with many papers of importance entering the public databases. Philip Tromovitch (an original member of the Rind team, now based out in Japan) has published:
The key takeaways from his research are that a reasonably large sample of men overwhelmingly endorsed positive descriptors for their experiences. Men "find their early, willing sexual contacts with older pa...
The Crime and Policing Bill represents the UK's most recent attempt to strengthen its omnipresent grasp over its unfortunate citizens, yet again using MAPs and children as pawns in a grotesque authoritarian game. In this article, we will take a look at what the government is planning to do and how MAPs may be able to hinder some of those efforts. We will refer to the bill itself, and the explanatory notes, as reviewed in March 2025. In order to keep the article length manageable, we will refer readers to technical guides and legal discussions on other resources where the relevant issues have already been covered to a high standard.
Extreme notification requirements
In October 2024, the MAP community became aware of a horrible tragedy perpetrated by Nicholas Prosper, a young man from the UK who murdered his mother and two siblings. Networking with various contacts within the MAP community led us to find that Prosper had actually been active within our community and identified as a MAP, with a special interest in the character of Clementine from The Walking Dead video game series. Some of this information has now been published by mainstream media, and we expect more to be revealed at his sentencing.
Brian Ribbon, who had previously warned in his artic...
Numerous media outlets are reporting a plan by the UK government to pass laws against tools that can be used to make criminalized images of AI children. Accounts are somewhat vague and even contradictory on details. According to The Guardian, under the upcoming Crime and Policing Bill:
- "It will become illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate child sexual abuse material."
- "It will also become illegal for anyone to possess manuals that teach potential offenders how to use AI tools to either make abusive imagery or to help them abuse children." ...
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MAP Union, or Mu, is an organization that advocates for MAP visibility, equality, cautious legal reform, and youth rights. If you're curious about the 'MAP' term, perhaps considering it a euphemism, please read here.
Recently, we have been the subject of a smear campaign by the far-right anti-trans hate group Gays Against Groomers, which has in turn led to our organization being defamed by firebrand Sicilian politician Francesca Donato.
