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Mass sexual assault in Egypt
Mob sexual assaults of women around Cairo's Tahrir Square during protests and celebrations from 2011 to 2014, with pre-2011 precedents; documented by Amnesty and HRW, totaling over 500 survivors, prompting OpAntiSH and a 2014 harassment law.
Mass suicide
Mass suicide, also called collective suicide, is the simultaneous self-inflicted death of a social group's members, most famously the 1978 Jonestown deaths of more than 900 people.
Massage parlor
Massage parlor: commercial massage establishment, first attested 1894 as a euphemism for a brothel; in the U.S. now tied to illicit massage businesses, trafficking, and licensing regulation, while the legitimate profession uses massage therapy.
Master/slave (BDSM)
Master/slave (M/s) is a consensual BDSM power-exchange dynamic in which the Master holds ongoing authority over a slave; often 24/7 TPE with collar, contract, and revocable consent.
Masturbate-a-thon
Masturbate-a-thon, also called wank-a-thon, a charity event where participants masturbate for pledges. Originated 1995 in San Francisco via Good Vibrations' Masturbation Month; London's first UK event was 5 August 2006, filmed for Channel 4's Wank Week.
Masturbation
Masturbation, sexual self-stimulation of one's own genitals for pleasure (mutual masturbation when shared with a partner), is safe, common, and endorsed by health organizations; surveys quantify prevalence and its compensatory or complementary relation to partnered sex.
Match.com
Match.com, launched April 1995 by Gary Kremen's Electric Classifieds, is a search-based online dating service for serious relationships, now a Match Group brand alongside Tinder and Hinge; sued by the FTC in 2019 over fake love-interest ads and cancellation practices.
Matching algorithms in online dating
Matching algorithms in online dating are the recommendation systems that decide which profiles a user sees and in what order, using collaborative filtering, questionnaire scoring, and two-sided matching.
Matchmaking
Matchmaking, the arranged introduction of people for marriage or long-term partnership, spans French commercial marriage agencies from 1812, Jewish shidduchim, Saudi family-led spouse selection, diaspora matrimonial platforms, and algorithmic online dating systems.
Matooskie
Matooskie, or Nancy McKenzie (c. 1790–1851), was a fur-trade country wife of John George McTavish, abandoned in 1830, remarried to Pierre Le Blanc, and later commemorated in art and by descendant Kevin Clifton.
Matriarchy
Matriarchy: term for rule by women, the counterpart of patriarchy, or in modern matriarchal studies a mother-centered, gender-egalitarian gift-economy society; no true female-dominant society is documented, and matriarchy differs from matrilineality.
Matrilineality
Matrilineality: kinship descent, inheritance, and belonging traced through the female line (matriliny), as among the Minangkabau, Khasi, Mosuo, and Akan. Distinct from matriarchy; often paired with matrilocal or avunculocal residence and mother's-brother inheritance.
Matt Fradd
Matt Fradd (Matthew Fradd), Catholic speaker and author of The Porn Myth (Ignatius Press, 2017), host of the Pints With Aquinas podcast, founder of ThePornEffect.com and Strive21, now on The Daily Wire.
Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp (Matthew Schlapp), American political operative and lobbyist, chairman of the American Conservative Union since 2014, runs CPAC; former George W. Bush White House political director, Koch lobbyist, Trump ally, and 2023 sexual assault lawsuit defendant.
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded by Harry Hay in Los Angeles in 1950, was the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States and a central homophile-movement group with national chapters.
Matthew 5:32
Matthew 5:32, the Matthean divorce exception verse from the Sermon on the Mount, permits divorce only for porneia (sexual immorality); its Greek phrase parektos logou porneias and its meaning are debated across Christian traditions.
Matthew F. Hale
Matthew F. Hale (born 1971), American white supremacist, Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator from 1996; convicted in 2004 of soliciting Judge Joan Lefkow's murder, serving 40 years.
Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey is a British dating coach and New York Times bestselling author of Get the Guy and Love Life, host of the Love Life podcast, TV love coach on The Single Wives, and founder of the Love Life coaching brand and Matthew AI.
Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard, also known as Matt Shepard, was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who died after a 1998 attack near Laramie.
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Shepard-Byrd Act), 18 U.S.C. § 249, is a 2009 federal law criminalizing bias-motivated violent bodily injury based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Mattie Blaylock
Mattie Blaylock, also called Celie, was Wyatt Earp's common-law wife who accompanied him from Dodge City to Tombstone in 1879, struggled with laudanum addiction, was abandoned for Josephine Marcus, and died of an overdose in 1888.
Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Максим Сергеевич Марцинкевич)
Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist and video blogger who founded Format-18 and Restrukt before his death in 2020, which was officially ruled suicide.
Mazdak (مزدک)
Mazdak (مزدک), son of Bāmdād, led Mazdakism, an egalitarian Zoroastrian-derived movement under Sasanian king Kawād I (488–531), preaching common property; suppressed by Khusrau I.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP's first Mississippi field secretary, World War II Army veteran, voter-registration organizer, and James Meredith ally, assassinated June 12, 1963 in Jackson by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted in 1994.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar (born 1954) is an Indian social activist, founder-leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, National Convenor of NAPM, and Right Livelihood Award (1991) and Goldman Prize (1992) recipient.
Media bias
Media bias: systematic slant in news selection, framing, or presentation toward political or organizational interests. Also covered via the Media Bias Taxonomy (linguistic, cognitive, context, reporting types), objectivity history, and Ad Fontes/AllSides rating scales.
Medical fetishism
Medical fetishism (medfet) is sexual arousal from medical scenarios, equipment, roles, or procedures, from doctor/nurse roleplay to catheters and enemas. Not a disorder unless distress or impairment; ICD-11 removed standalone fetishism diagnoses.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.
Meg Mathews
Meg Mathews, British former music and fashion PR, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher, Britpop figure turned menopause campaigner via MegsMenopause, #MegsMenopause, and the book The New Hot.