all entries: apr 2019 to nov 2025
22 November 2025voices that are drownedbly
Benjamin Britten - feted as a great composer, known to be attracted to boys, suspected of one rejected advance - can we claim him as a non-offending MAP?
21 June 2025poem: ovenbrandon goletzski
the summer is at its full weight / i stand in the air-conditioned kitchen looking out from the window (why / is it that so much happens at kitchen windows?)
17 June 2025when i chose pedophiliaanonymous
When did you choose your sexual and/or romantic attraction pattern? What alternatives did you consider? Did you take advice on it before you decided? Were you pleased with what you chose or did you later exchange it?
6 May 2025on mary oliver's wild geesejames peak
Unrequited love, impossible love, stupid, foolish love. My heart is broken, but so is the poet’s.
22 April 2025lawful good: writing a nomap charactertom jones
As I wrote the scenes where his attractions are revealed, it was my own coming out story all over again.
7 January 2025poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalismbrandon goletzski
i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head
1 January 2025poem: coming out daybrandon goletzski
i want to take my clothes off in front of you / then my skin too / toss it aside rumpled & empty
1 April 2019writer in a dark field: sheila van den heuvel-collinsglobal prevention project
They said: There's no representation for MAPs. It's sex offenders, it's victims of sexual assault—so the stories they gave me ended up in this book.