I’ll be hopping off abroad for a quick trip in a day or two. Soon after my return I should be able to put out a blog on a topic of immediate relevance and personal significance for many MAPs in a way that some of my recent work has not been. A notable example of that was the most recent one, on Robert Trivers, an evolutionary psychologist whose heyday was half a century ago.
Not exactly hot news, then, and his highly abstract theory of sexual psychology isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. But that does not detract from its importance to MAPs, in my view, and I make no apologies for focusing on that theme.
However, there needs to be balance. As well as long, weighty, often extensively researched pieces, there should be shorter, snappier ones that go straight to the heart of the daily lives of MAPs and youth. Actually, just between you and me, I should confess that Heretic TOC must in any event get back to such basics for a while for purely practical reasons.
When I started this blog in 2012, long before the Ukraine war or Covid or Brexit or the energy price shock, Donald Trump was just a brash New York business boss with a TV show; and, in the UK, we were basking in the warm glow of a great London Olympics. Happy days!
Happy days for Heretic TOC, too, in a sense. Although there were lots of grim developments to write about, especially the relentless rise of victim culture from the Jimmy Savile moral panic onwards, the business of writing a blog was relatively simple. Or it was the way I did it. I’d just knock out a few thoughts that came to me in the moment, and put them out there and then, without spending a lot of time on background research. That’s how I managed to do 15 blogs in the first three weeks.
I need to get back to that spontaneity, if only because I am under increasing time pressure these days, and at my age good luck with trying to work faster. The trouble is that in order to maintain even my present modest lifestyle (“luxury” items include attending events such as conferences and workshops, buying books, subs to journals, etc., needed to keep well informed and think things through) I need to spend more time doing work I can get paid for, as a freelance editorial consultant. If there are one or two MAP-friendly millionaires reading this (or billionaires, who knows?), please note: bung me a few grand from time to time to keep me doing a proper, full-fat HTOC, instead of freelancing, and I’m your man.
Until that happens, I’ll just have to bash stuff out as and when I can, after earning my crust for the day – work that I enjoy, by the way, and it is reassuring to know my writing is still valued by non-MAP clients. Note that I have been publicly mulling over retirement from HTOC for the best part of four years now, so it’s not as though this will come as shock news to attentive heretics.
Check it out. In November 2022, I did a blog called “After ten years, time to take the chair”, meaning I should retire to become a sort non-executive chairman of the board, a mere figurehead rather than a hard-working CEO.
Noting the First World War song “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away”, I mused on retirement, saying “I feel in remarkably good nick for my age, both physically and mentally. So, who knows, I might go on fading so slowly you’d hardly notice for another decade, or even two.”
Happily, the “good nick” side of things is still true but time pressure is becoming, well, relentlessly more pressing, so something has to go – unless y’all heretics suddenly become inspired to submit more guest blogs: they are always welcome.
So, that’s it for today then. Finished! Just the above. Over and done with after a mere few hundred words, not thousands.
Bye, bye, then. We’re all done here.
You know, I can’t actually believe I’m saying this…
Oh, stop wittering, O’Carroll. Just STFU.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
I know, I know. I said only a moment ago I’d shut up but here I am again, breaking my promise, shameless as a politician. It’s just that with Huw Edwards back in the news with his new Substack, I thought I might just mention the Channel 5 drama about him earlier this year, Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.
Did any heretics here see it? Considered purely as drama, I found it compelling, both for Martin Clunes’ convincing portrayal of Edwards and for its depiction of his teenage so-called victim. Viewers are heavily steered to see the latter as a victim of Edwards’ abuse of power (the clue is in the title), but from the facts as presented, the young man seemed to have plenty of agency: he did topless videos for money (plenty of it, apparently). His choice; no one forced him. Nice work if you can get it, I’d say.
Andrew Billen’s review in The Times (25 March) was revealing. He wrote:
After the screening I told Clunes that I admired his performance and that he had caught many aspects of the Edwards I had met. But I also observed that the film did not show Edwards the amusing raconteur who lunched for Wales. Clunes looked astonished. He had talked to many people who had worked with Edwards, and none had mentioned that side of him at all.
Well, they wouldn’t, would they? There’s an all-too-common tendency to kick people when they’re down. It’s a herd mentality thing, a temptation to say you knew someone was a wrong ’un all along, because that’s what you think is the safest thing to say, even though the truth might be that got on very well with them.
Anyway, that really is it for now. Over, and out!
• DNA is identifiable within 72 hours: DOI 10.1007/s00414-026-03931-w
• AI recommends “restorative justice”: DOI 10.1111/lcrp.70053
• Litigation is perversion: DOI 10.1080/24732850.2026.2701457
• The tendency of the population to exaggerate the risk of relapse (10%): DOI 10.1177/10790632261470830
• SArvivors don’t grow up narcissistic: DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108227
• <8% of women are SArvivors: DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108231
• Female MAPs blame men: DOI 10.1177/10790632261470828
• Moms kill kids not because of trauma: DOI 10.1037/vio0000711
• STIs in SArvivors <18%: DOI 10.1016/j.ajem.2026.07.041
• AI detects grooming: DOI 10.1016/j.knosys.2026.116641
• Gentle intrusion does not prevent children’s protest: DOI 10.1080/10538712.2026.2706496
• Infants seek loopholes in antisexual prohibitions: DOI 10.1177/14639491261470843
• Women like porn: DOI 10.1080/23268743.2026.2692429
• Rape does not scare away from sex: DOI 10.1016/j.jped.2026.101582
• More than a half of rapists believe in women’s consent: DOI 10.1177/10790632261470420
• <⅙ of nonvirgin children call themselves raped: DOI 10.1016/j.jped.2026.101582
Cyril writes:
>Infants seek loopholes in antisexual prohibitions
I just love this imaginative description! Judging by the Abstract, the article itself is equally off the wall. Or should that be off the gatepost? The author writes:
>From a feminist new materialist perspective, we understand sexuality as a discursive-material assemblage and employ the concept of ‘thing-power’ to analyse how school objects – a gate, a poster – exercise agency in the production of (im)possibilities for childhood consent.
So a gate exercises agency? Fascinating. Shame there is an ongoing war against kids’ own agency, one which usually insists of the “(im)possibilities for childhood consent”, with the emphasis on the “im”.
In fairness to this article, it seems to be nodding in the right direction, albeit under heavy cover of obscure language.
⁃ Predicting CSA: DOI 10.1016/j.childyouth.2026.109192
⁃ “greater childhood trauma was associated with stronger symptom reduction over time, regardless of the applied interventions”: DOI 10.1080/20008066.2026.2692180
⁃ No more statute of limitations: https://inbusiness.kz/ru/last/vo-francii-uzhestochili-nakazanie-dlya-serijnyh-nasilnikov-pedofilov?ysclid=mrvpglwn5b337496150
⁃ “relational dependency” prevents kids from disclosure: DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1859966
Courtney stodden a true american idiot married a 51 yr old at 16 now shes saying many years later thta she was a child and didnt know what she was doing ! i say BS
• Women are our biggest enemies: DOI 10.1111/ssqu.70177
• To prison for child’s drawings: DOI 10.1080/26904586.2026.2700757
• GLs as hated as BLs: DOI 10.1111/ssqu.70177
• SArvivors vs. SORs: “Spoo et al.’s (2018) survey of 1173 American undergraduate students, of whom 129 (11%) identified as victim/survivors, found that victim/survivors were less supportive of community notification than the remainder of the sample …Providing emerging insight into victim/survivors’ reasons for supporting or opposing registers, Craun and Simmons (2012) conducted an online survey of 589 American victim/survivors, and found only lukewarm support for the notion that PCSO registers protect the public from sexual violence (p. 319). Only 39% agreed/strongly agreed with this statement, and the mean score on a 5-point scale was 3.1 – slightly above ‘neither agree nor disagree’. Taylor (2017) surveyed 162 Australians who had accessed Western Australia’s semi-public register (discussed above). One-quarter of respondents identified as a victim/survivor of sexual violence (mostly child sexual abuse). Taylor (2017) found that slightly more than one-quarter (26%) of respondents who were abused as children thought that the register stigmatised PCSOs, compared with 17% of other respondents. In addition, the survey found that one-third of respondents who had experienced child sexual abuse agreed that PCSOs have a right to anonymity, while just over half disagreed. Similarly, approximately one-third of respondents who had experienced child sexual abuse did not believe that the community has a right to know the identity of all PCSOs, while slightly over half indicated that they did believe this (Taylor, 2017). Craun and Simmons (2012) also found that …Approximately 11% of their sample reported that the presence of a public register influenced their decision about whether to report their assault to the police. For about half of this 11%, the existence of a register persuaded them to report (since, for example, ‘I don’t want him to be allowed around other kids’); for the remaining half, it dissuaded them from doing so (because, for example, ‘I could not bring myself to ruin his life that way’) …Richards et al.’s (2023) qualitative interviews with 33 victim/survivors from Australia suggested that those victim/survivors who endorsed public registers mainly did so on consequentialist grounds (see also Death et al., 2025; Richards et al., 2025). In other words, victim/survivors’ support ‘typically did not stem from a desire for vengeance, but instead reflected pragmatic concerns about preventing future sexual harm. . . .[Registers were]. . . .seen as regrettably necessary for rather than deserved by this cohort of offenders’ …Victim/survivors (n = 26) in Richards et al.’s subsequent qualitative study (Death et al., 2025; Richards et al., 2025) had mixed views about public PCSO registers …Victim/survivors also raised concerns about vigilantes targeting registered PCSOs and the impacts on PCSOs’ reintegration prospects …‘To what end? What advantage would that serve?’ (Owen) …Victim/survivors very frequently argued against SORN policies on the grounds that they would incite vigilante behaviour by members of the public. Indeed, this was the most common argument expressed in opposition to SORN. In some cases, victim/survivors’ opposition centred on the potential for offences they do not deem ‘real’ crimes to be included in SORN policies, creating the potential for those who are not ‘real’ PCSOs to be the targets of vigilantism. For example, a few held concerns about people with convictions for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ offences (i.e. criminalised but normative sexual activity between similar-aged consenting teenagers (Bierie and Budd, 2018) or public urination being included on public registers: ‘My understanding is that the reason we don’t have those registers is vigilantism, so there’s concern that someone will knock on the door and shoot the guy. There were cases such as in the States where, for example, someone did that because this guy was on a sex offender registry. It turned out he had been 18 and had sex with a 17-year-old. So, you know, stuff like that would happen.’ (Troy) ‘[I]n the US where it’s all out of control, my understanding is that there’s people on the registry who are drunk and urinated in public.’ (Simon)”: DOI 10.1177/02697580261469211
• CSA does not cause emotional disregulation: DOI 10.1007/s40653-026-00946-8
• Beaten: https://aquazona.by/articles/66248.html?ysclid=mruohn34qp983491330
• Beaten by mistake: https://www.nsk.kp.ru/daily/277799.5/5278898/?ysclid=mruoei72an997967427
• Adults are punished for sex between adolescents: https://aquazona.by/articles/41614.html
• Anti-MAP comic: DOI 10.1080/21504857.2026.2703132
• “toys that carry testimonies from child victims”: https://repository.udistrital.edu.co/items/2158465a-81c6-4eb6-ac6b-927469c254ba
• “peer-on-peer AI-CSAM”: DOI 10.1177/17488958261467387
• CSA don’t cause anorexia or bulimia: DOI 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2026.100761
• “Grooming by Attorneys”: DOI 10.1002/bsl.70080
• Kids’ sexual interests: DOI 10.1186/s12978-026-02295-z
• Antisexual education not effective: DOI 10.1186/s41155-026-00390-5
• MAPophobia is misandry: DOI 10.1080/17432979.2026.2623418
• Types of CSA predict SArvivor’s secrecy: DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108224
• How to detect snitches: DOI 10.1080/13552600.2026.2690216
• Child sexting is normal in Philippines: DOI 10.1080/10911359.2026.2695065
• Parents vs. anti-touch education: DOI 10.57012/ijhhr.v5n1.008
• Psychologist-fabricated case: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/libstudies_pubs/42/
• MAPs don’t fuck unconscious kids—contrary to peers: DOI 10.1080/10826084.2026.2698849
• Kids don’t want to disclose: DOI 10.1080/09649069.2026.2696734
• “formal intervention by welfare figures was perceived as inappropriate and intrusive” by SArvivors and their parents: DOI 10.1016/j.childyouth.2026.108803
• “psychiatry complicit in our ongoing abuse”: DOI 10.1111/hex.70770
• SArvivors do not die earlier: DOI 10.64898/2026.07.09.26357627
• “While a meta-analysis of 21 studies found a small, significant relationship between CSA and BPD.., the authors concluded that CSA was neither a necessary risk factor nor a direct cause of BPD”: DOI 10.1186/s40479-026-00356-0
• “child marriage has no statistically significant average effect on depression or anxiety”: DOI 10.22004/ag.econ.404597
• Extra-familiar CSA does not cause selfharming: DOI 10.14744/DAJPNS.2026.00327
• CSA does not lead to suicide: DOI 10.14744/DAJPNS.2026.00327
• CSA does not cause cognitive disfunction: DOI 10.1186/s40359-026-04029-z
• EU “Chat Control for social media” to catch CPectators: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ovidiu-Burac/publication/408926784_PRIVACY_FOR_THE_STATE_SCANNING_FOR_THE_PUBLIC_THE_ETHICS_OF_CHAT_CONTROL_AND_DIGITAL_SURVEILLANCE/links/6a527ffdf6cec25ad2d884f1/PRIVACY-FOR-THE-STATE-SCANNING-FOR-THE-PUBLIC-THE-ETHICS-OF-CHAT-CONTROL-AND-DIGITAL-SURVEILLANCE.pdf
• 70YO in emergency room: https://www.facebook.com/IrexitFreetoProsper/posts/-a-father-has-admitted-to-beating-a-70-year-old-man-after-allegedly-witnessing-h/1726182395671254/
• Pathologizing CPectators: DOI 10.15406/frcij.2025.14.00480
• Overprotection harms: DOI 10.1111/camh.70103
• Police have trauma when hunting us: DOI 10.1007/s11896-026-09835-0
• Compulsory treatment for SArvivors : DOI 10.1007/s10560-026-01130-5
• Beaten: https://kazan.aif.ru/incidents/criminal/otdali_pod_samosud_v_tatarstane_zhilcy_doma_vychislili_i_izbili_izvrashchenca
• Intruded his daughter’s messaging and beaten the MAP: https://www.usasupreme.com/florida-dad-takes-down-pedophile-who-preyed-on-his-daughter-via-snapchat-and-raped-her-police-reaction-is-based-video/
• Killed in prison: https://spb.mk.ru/incident/2025/04/09/stali-izvestny-podrobnosti-smertelnogo-izbieniya-pedofila-v-peterburgskoy-kolonii.html
• 8YO participated in beating: https://tltgorod.ru/news/theme-5/news-67587?ysclid=mrnia8iq74213142640
[MOD: We need to know what is going on, Cyril, but we don’t need it rammed down our throats every day. I am talking specifically about shocking video footage of violence. Repeated postings of similar will be deleted on the basis of repetition. It’s the same with other news stories, actually. It would not be practical, nor would it be interesting, to post every media report of every routine prosecution for downloading, say.]
Why is that renegade ape video age restricted? And most of my twitter feed! kier starmer and his cronies are Evil ! at least england lost. maybe some of you support them, but end of the day millions of Antis will have been crying!
>Why is that renegade ape video age restricted?
That’s the first I’ve heard of it. Thanks for pointing this out Matt. I saw the age restriction notice, but when I clicked to start the vid I didn’t need to make an age declaration or prove my age. Maybe that’s because I was already logged in with Google, or something.
its working now ! now will my comments disappear.. probably.
wonder if renegade ape is related to savannah ape? (a MAP who surprisingly has has his channel intact although he seems to have disappeared). my comment has 27 likes!
27 likes! Wow! I’m impressed!
We are entering the Victorian era 2.0. It’s hard to miss the ease and speed with which countries have begun to support the introduction of social media restrictions for teenagers. They’re not allowed to communicate online, they’re not allowed to go outside, they’re not allowed to watch pornography, they’re trying to ban them from online gaming. What’s left then? Suffocating “protection” turns teenagers into prisoners and pets.
• Sex is death: DOI 10.1080/00043389.2026.2622845
• Technical assistance have “trauma” from observing CSA: DOI 10.1186/s12889-026-26485-3
• Secondary victimisation—admitted by court: https://dspace.ueb.edu.ec/items/a5da2f4b-3d84-4d4c-97f5-7cfeffd2ff53
• “repeated testimonies highlight potential risks of secondary victimization”: DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108220
• Secondary & Parental victimisation by incest disclosure: DOI 10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108221
• 19YO beaten for fake 15YO: https://ura.news/news/1053062244
• Beaten by his GF: https://youtu.be/uEq4TIHwMUA
• Not allowed to toilet: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DavSIpgCN3l/Shot during étape: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dav4ioBSkgv/
>Sex is death: DOI 10.1080/00043389.2026.2622845
Surviving the erotophobe fascist Anglophone is a fate worse than Sex.
From F.B. PHOTOS, VIDEOS, SWORN STATEMENTS BY MULTIPLE GIRLS AND WOMEN, AND YET, NOT ONLY IS THIS PIECE OF SUB-HUMAN SLIME NOT IN JAIL, HE’S STILL AMERIKA’S PRESIDENT. SAYS IT ALL ABOUT AMERIKA.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2133514470611296&set=a.236463923649703
Fake news, Pup! Fake photos at least, don’t you think? So is this meant to be just an expressive post? Mood music, as it were?
No doubt fake pix of some MAPs & AAMs dreams ??
Tho the anti-MAP faker is (inadvertently) right about smiling AAMs looking positively aMused not negatively aBused. Wot no fake stereotype blood & tears??
Cocussion for dating a 13YO when he was 19YO
https://www.aol.com/news/vigilante-teens-caught-wild-doorbell-135138277.html
https://www.mystateline.com/news/sex-offender-assaulted-michigan/
yup, the usa is the worst country on earth
• Non-contact CSA correlates: DOI 10.1186/s12905-026-04655-0
• Cops have trauma when hunting us: DOI 10.1108/JFP-10-2025-0102
• Kids avoid anti-MAP education: http://www.iscjournal.com/index.php/isce/article/view/325
• MAPs don’t cause warts : https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:308150520/
• CSA does not cause dissociation or parental stress: https://epublications.vu.lt/object/elaba:308151691/
• Predictors of CP watching: DOI 10.63237/XSBI4718
• Self-reliant kids are sexually active: DOI 10.2478/FON-2026-0030
• Virgins consider their parents good: DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2026.05.007
• What parents know about their kids: DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2026.05.013
• SArvivors are good students: DOI 10.1007/s12187-026-10414-2
• Dismembered: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-registered-sex-offender-body-identified-suitcase-abandoned-palm-bay-compound
• Killed in prison: https://tltgorod.ru/news/theme-0/news-71132?ysclid=mrg8dlejuj598913263
• 30% to 80% of C & non-C SA survivors have no PTSD: DOI 10.61336/AJFP/2026-1-25
Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757806#main-content
i might make a petition. if u18s are deemed incapable raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18. or 25 as a lot think 24 is too young.
What do people think of the Huw Edwards case?
Well the 17 year old
victimwasnt innocent, and he the porn he downloaded, well it wasnt many pics, hes had his career ruined so thats enough punishment, and hes been put on the register.. luckily we dont have a big invitation for vigilantes hereJonathan King: HUW EDWARDS on SUBSTACK. Actually very good; worth subscribing and reading.
https://www.kingofhits.co.uk/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,65/func,view/catid,2/id,271368/
Sex education isn’t effective: DOI 10.1186/s12905-026-04657-yAnti-MAP video-game for ados: DOI 10.1016/j.ijcci.2026.100840
The other day an unfortunate incident. Someone was talking about shooting all n**ces. everyone including my friend were hi fiving eachother. i reluctantly joined in as i would have been exposed as one. I feel sick. and one of them was a girl i had respect for. unfortunately in my current mental state im not able to stand up for my views. only online… i mean if they talking about actual rapists i can understand but not… sex with a 15 year old, say. or taking a photo of a 17 year old. or touching someones butt.
So lets say everyone knew you had the feelings you have and you knew you had nothing to lose I’m guessing your actions would have been different?
yes i had to… if i had nothing to lose well yeh i could be more open… i knew the guy was an idiot already but i didnt realise a violent idiot.. i wish i could share my feelings but what do i get … psyc guy threaten to break my legs.. but name calling generally. the N word is used so much now its meaning is lost just like the P word. i got called the N word for supporting a 32 year old seeing a 22 year old! yes einstein human stupidity is infinite !
If people were saying “shoot all rapists,” that would make more sense. “Rapist” is probably closer to what they actually think they’re saying, since “nonce” is associated with people who’ve been convicted of sexual interaction with a child, however so defined…
And no worries Matt. You did what you thought you had to in the moment to protect yourself – many people who’ve been in similar situations for all sorts of reasons… IRL I might push back and say to people that “it’s pretty fucked up we’re cheering for someone to be killed, we don’t know someone’s situation that led them to that point, or the actual circumstances of what took place.” I’ve pushed back on people’s bullshit IRL before and it’s always gone fine, but you’ve gotta pick your battles and use your judgement.
You’ve got your own morals and perspective, which is great. Imo, focusing on building up yourself, your skills and mental health / fortitude, sounds like it should be your priority atm. So, try not to worry about the nonsense people say; much of it is performative anyway…
That woman is a murderer. I think that murder is the worst crime that can ever happen, because the victim can not recover from it. Children can go to therapy and recover, but a dead person can not be brought back to life.
I hope people will submit more guest blogs to you over email.