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*There has been some confusion in Prostasia's messaging - whether minors are separated from adults in MAP Support Club's online chats (the projects have a very close codependency relationship). In reality, this is almost impossible to police.
*There has been some confusion in Prostasia's messaging - whether minors are separated from adults in MAP Support Club's online chats (the projects have a very close codependency relationship). In reality, this is almost impossible to police.
*Prostasia's defense of sex doll use among MAPs is seen as "unconventional" for a child protection charity, although use of dolls appears to be unrelated to offending, or otherwise underexplored.<ref>[https://psyarxiv.com/fxznv/ Harper and Lievsley: Exploring the psychological characteristics and risk-related cognitions of individuals who own sex dolls]</ref>
*Prostasia's defense of sex doll use among MAPs is seen as "unconventional" for a child protection charity, although use of dolls appears to be unrelated to offending, or otherwise underexplored.<ref>[https://psyarxiv.com/fxznv/ Harper and Lievsley: Exploring the psychological characteristics and risk-related cognitions of individuals who own sex dolls]</ref>
*In early to mid November, 2021, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, '''Allyn Walker''' received widespread coverage after partaking in an interview with Prostasia, advocating the destigmatization of pedophilia. At that point, Walker had written a book, published in June 2021.<ref>[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow  Allyn Walker - Book] and [https://anonfiles.com/baQ8Pch3x7/a-long-dark-shadow-minor-attracted-people-and-their-pursuit-of-dignity_pdf download link]</ref> Twitter coverage from trans exclusionary radical feminists at '''4W''' and the alt-right channel '''Libs Of TikTok''' soon spread to online media including the New York Post, Washington Post, Breitbart and various small conservative outlets.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/11/17/old-dominion-professor-allyn-walker/ Allyn Walker - WAPo]</ref><ref>[https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/allyn-walker-says-attraction-to-children-isnt-immoral/ Allyn Walker - NYPo]</ref><ref>[https://jezebel.com/professor-on-leave-after-comments-about-people-attracte-1848089269 Allyn Walker - Jezebel]</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/allyn-walker-professor-paedophile-virginia-b1960427.html Allyn Walker - Indie]</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10212633/amp/Trans-professor-placed-leave-defending-pedophiles.html Allyn Walker - UK Mail]</ref><ref>[https://reason.com/volokh/2021/11/18/professor-removed-from-campus-for-writing-and-talking-about-people-who-have-sexual-attraction-to-minors/ Allyn Walker - Reason]</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/11/17/old-dominion-u-professor-placed-on-leave-after-defending-pedophiles/ Allyn Walker - Breitbart: Suspension]</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/11/18/academics-speak-out-for-old-dominion-u-prof-put-on-leave-after-defending-pedophiles/ Allyn Walker - Breitbart: Academic response]</ref> Walker's use of [[Minor Attracted Person|MAP]] was mocked by Tucker Carlson and Geraldo Rivera on FOX News as the next woke frontier. Old Dominion's ''As(t*)erisk'' Trans Student Body released a scathing and somewhat confusing denunciation of the professor riddled with accusations of "misappropriation".<ref>[https://secure.boychat.org/messages/1583313.htm BC - Link to news story inside]</ref> Walker was supported by many in the scientific field, including Dr. [[Michael Seto]], Dr. Craig Harper, Dr. Gilian Tenbergen and Professor [[Michael Bailey]] after subsequently being put on leave by their employer.<ref>[https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Abbfcc969-5f0b-4fc4-8c70-677570b0b230#pageNum=1 Allyn Walker - Letter of support]</ref> Old Dominion University subsequently confirmed they would not be renewing Walker's contract.<ref>[https://odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old_dominion_university ODU - statement re. contract]</ref> Our [https://www.newgon.net/wiki/images/PR.pdf press-release] of 18 Nov, 2021 provides further perspective. Walker has since been hired by Johns Hopkins, and will start work as a postdoctoral fellow for the Baltimore school on May 24, 2022.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10813233/Trans-professor-DEFENDED-pedophiles-minor-attracted-persons-hired-Johns-Hopkins-center.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field Johns Hopkins child sex abuse center hires trans professor, 34, who was forced to resign from Virginia school for DEFENDING pedophiles as 'minor attracted persons' (Daily Mail)]</ref>
*In early to mid November, 2021, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, [[Allyn Walker]] received widespread coverage after partaking in an interview with Prostasia, advocating the destigmatization of pedophilia. At that point, Walker had written a book, published in June 2021.<ref>[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow  Allyn Walker - Book] and [https://anonfiles.com/baQ8Pch3x7/a-long-dark-shadow-minor-attracted-people-and-their-pursuit-of-dignity_pdf download link]</ref> Walker has since been hired by Johns Hopkins, and will start work as a postdoctoral fellow for the Baltimore school on May 24, 2022.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10813233/Trans-professor-DEFENDED-pedophiles-minor-attracted-persons-hired-Johns-Hopkins-center.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field Johns Hopkins child sex abuse center hires trans professor, 34, who was forced to resign from Virginia school for DEFENDING pedophiles as 'minor attracted persons' (Daily Mail)]</ref>


==Criticism from MAPs==
==Criticism from MAPs==

Revision as of 21:40, 17 May 2022

Logo, 2021

Prostasia Foundation is an American non-profit organization founded in San Fransisco, August 15, 2018.[1] The foundation's activities include, but are not limited to the provision of public forums and funding/promotion of private chats for minor attracted people, the provision of child abuse prevention training and consultancy services to corporate and other clients, and grants for researchers. Prostasia Foundation has also been seen to carry out awareness-raising activities in the form of numerous public media and social media engagement campaigns.

Prostasia receives funding through crowd finance, memberships and anonymous donations (Bitcoin and Monero are options according to their website). They have also supposedly received money from an institutional investor.[2] Ultimately, with anonymous donation a possibility, there is no way of telling who their critical benefactors are, at this point.

MAP Support Club

Prostasia is in public partnership with MAP Support Club[3], an online chat for MAPs who are committed to a non-offending lifestyle (NOMAPs). In October 2021, a member reported on Boychat.org, that chats were visited by 3-10 users at most times of day. A group administrator then clarified that MAP Support Club had over 100 active users.[4] MAP Support Club has posted a series of strict rules for participation. While most of these were said to act as a deterrent, the user did confirm there is a strict prohibition against advocacy for age of consent reform. Some of the rules follow:

  • 4. No talk about lowering Age of Consent (AoC), whatever it is where you live.
  • 5. No talk about adult-child sex being fundamentally OK and only harmful due to societal attitudes and reactions to its discovery, nor discussions of the topic. There are other places on the internet to have these discussions. This is not one of them.
  • 11. No images or videos of children if they would be arousing to an average pedophile (shirtless, swimsuit, underwear).
  • 12. No images or videos of children for the sake of sharing “cute” or “hot” kids. If relevant to an ongoing discussion, an occasional image will be allowed as long as it doesn't violate rule #11.

Rule #5 appears to be a prohibition against pro-c viewpoints, and could even be used against some clearly stated consequentialist anti-contact positions. However, what seems more realistic, is that topics such as consent reform are just deemed irrelevant and not discussed.

Andrew Lambakis, president of Old Dominion College Republicans waged a campaign of harassment against Walker. He only unpinned this defamatory tweet (after we reminded him) on 4 Jan, 2022, months after Walker was suspended.

Controversies

Prostasia has been involved in a string of social media controversies concerning the "normalization" trope. They have also been attacked by abuse industry figureheads such as Michael Salter and John Carr. We cover examples that made the mainstream media, or became common social media talking points.

  • Prostasia has often come under-fire for positions taken by former communications spokesman, Noah Berlatsky. One often-repeated example is his piece in the New Republic, Child Sex Workers’ Biggest Threat: The Police.[5]
  • There has been some confusion in Prostasia's messaging - whether minors are separated from adults in MAP Support Club's online chats (the projects have a very close codependency relationship). In reality, this is almost impossible to police.
  • Prostasia's defense of sex doll use among MAPs is seen as "unconventional" for a child protection charity, although use of dolls appears to be unrelated to offending, or otherwise underexplored.[6]
  • In early to mid November, 2021, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, Allyn Walker received widespread coverage after partaking in an interview with Prostasia, advocating the destigmatization of pedophilia. At that point, Walker had written a book, published in June 2021.[7] Walker has since been hired by Johns Hopkins, and will start work as a postdoctoral fellow for the Baltimore school on May 24, 2022.[8]

Criticism from MAPs

Since its inception, Prostasia has attracted a lot of mainstream attention throughout social media due to its unconventional anti-CSA messaging, which incorporates kink, BDSM and Sex Worker Rights with child protection. MAPs have also expressed incredulity towards the idea that said messaging is not intended to be deliberately provocative. This includes the choice of Noah Berlastsky (who no longer works at Prostasia) as a communications spokesman, a "Social Justice Warrior" and "Anti-Gamergater" whose Jewish background further triggered the alternative-right.

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