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B4U-ACT has authorized and promoted many studies for online [[MAP]] samples, and tends to hold a lot of sway over a study's deemed authenticity for a wider sample of MAPs. | B4U-ACT has authorized and promoted many studies for online [[MAP]] samples, and tends to hold a lot of sway over a study's deemed authenticity for a wider sample of MAPs. | ||
==Historical parralels== | |||
B4U-ACT, and to a lesser extent, [[Virtuous Pedophiles|Virped]] have been compared to early gay rights organizations, although the comparison is probably inaccurate at this point. Their focus on medical conceptions of the Minor Attracted Person, is however evocative the early 20th Century gay underground's embrace of the medical/psychiatric consensus (namely of Homosexuals as the "androgyne"). Indeed, this brand of medicalism was visible in the early concepts for Bachelors Anonymous/The Mattachine Society, featured in [[Harry Hay]]'s article. | |||
==B4um== | ==B4um== | ||
Revision as of 23:13, 18 July 2022
B4U-ACT is a non-profit organization whose stated goal is "to make effective and compassionate mental health care available to individuals who self-identify as minor attracted people and who are seeking assistance in dealing with issues in their lives that are challenging to them." It was founded in 2003. The organization holds workshops to facilitate communication between mental health professionals and minor-attracted persons and to promote awareness and understanding of issues related to minor attraction.
B4U-ACT was crucial in the popularization of "Minor Attracted Person" as a neologism - with Richard Kramer and the late Michael Melsheimer (who co-founded the organization with mental health professional, Russell Dick[1]) being possible conduits between the minor attracted community and the mental health professionals, academics and even journalists who went on to adopt and promote the term.
B4U-ACT has authorized and promoted many studies for online MAP samples, and tends to hold a lot of sway over a study's deemed authenticity for a wider sample of MAPs.
Historical parralels
B4U-ACT, and to a lesser extent, Virped have been compared to early gay rights organizations, although the comparison is probably inaccurate at this point. Their focus on medical conceptions of the Minor Attracted Person, is however evocative the early 20th Century gay underground's embrace of the medical/psychiatric consensus (namely of Homosexuals as the "androgyne"). Indeed, this brand of medicalism was visible in the early concepts for Bachelors Anonymous/The Mattachine Society, featured in Harry Hay's article.
B4um
B4U-ACT also hosts an online community known as B4um (a portmanteau of B4U-ACT and Forum, pronounced BEE·for·um). It operates as an extension of the organization, with the intention of providing a place for peer support, and fellowship between MAPs.