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A PhD student who was booted off his course after writing a paper describing how he masturbated to sexualised images of young boys has accused his university and publisher of surrendering to an online pile-on.
Karl Andersson was expelled by the University of Manchester and his 2022 article -- subtitled "Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan" -- was retractedafter his exploration of a manga comic genre depicting sexual encounters involving children was condemned as "morally offensive".
The Swedish researcher has never spoken publicly about the saga, but in a new book, Impossibly Cute Boys: The Healing Power of Shota Comics in Japan, he claims that he had received nothing but praise for his paper prior to publication.
The convener of a PhD course in "queer autoethnography" where the paper was drafted praised it as a "wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing essay on masturbation 'in the field'", adding: "This is already very publishable, should you so desire. Bravo," Mr Andersson recounts.
He says that his own supervisor praised it as "pretty darn good", describing it as his "best piece of writing", while it was positively received on submission to the Sage journal Qualitative Research, with one reviewer stating that the rationale for using masturbation as a method was "well justified", adding: "The author has conducted provocative research by use of a highly bold and innovative application of autoethnography. Best of all, the author has done this extremely well."
However, after the published paper made headlines around the world, it was pulled by Sage, which said it "legitimises sexual activity involving sexually graphic illustrated images of children" and had "potential to cause significant harm", while Manchester -- which had funded Mr Andersson's PhD -- expelled him after ruling that he had caused "significant reputational harm" to the university.
Mr Andersson, who writes that he is now an independent researcher, claims that he fell victim to "ill-willed and homophobic reports" by the media and accusations from "the mob" on social media, with "otherwise rational academics" joining in as an act of "groupthink".
But Michelle Shipworth, an associate professor in UCL's Energy Institute who was an early critic of the paper, said it was concerning -- and telling -- that nobody had challenged Mr Andersson's research topic or methods.
"Academia is becoming more attitudinally homogenous and, at the same time, more censorious, making it increasingly dangerous for academics to argue against a view they believe is widely held," she said. "This creates a risky environment vulnerable to both accidents and exploitation."
Manchester said that it had conducted a "robust" investigation into the "significant concerns" around Mr Andersson's work.
A Sage spokesperson said: "Together with the editors of the journal, we retracted the article after an investigation determined that there was a lack of institutional ethical oversight and a lack of adequate and appropriate ethical review ahead of publication."
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Not sure what to comment about this... I know that "not all Weebs", but some culling may be needed if we want civilized society to still exist in 100 years.
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Ok now that I write it, it sounds like a good joke
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Wild that all the comments are positive, and the overwhelming majority are thumbs up on the video. Unironically lots of sick fricks out there.
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Aba is a real woman
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then why does he hate my lesbians and prefer straight s*x for procreation
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It's called being a pickmeisha and it's a good thing!
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shes gonna make a man very happy one day
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How do bongs feel about their taxpayer money used to write this study?
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This is proof by itself that all major countries need to fund bullying projects. This shit doesn't happen if bullies do their jobs.
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Using bullying as a corrective sociopolitical intervention to reduce the spread of shota subculture outside Japan
I need 48 million to fund my grant proposal.
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But bullying would just keep them quiet about it. We need them to admit they want to r*pe children in the open so we can put them somewhere they can never do it.
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their parent's basement?
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Probably not. I assume a lot of molestation happens in parents' basements.
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It's also funny to think: 'I want to use bullying as a tool of the government' sounds more like an idea written about at the college-level than 'this is what I maturbate to'; but this direction is where colleges went instead.
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I'm just as confused.
Under UK law he's admitting to consuming child pornography but I assume that since it's 
it's acceptable 
I recall that there's some vague "research" clause for stuff like this but surely reasearching "I get horny and jack off to CP" is fricking pushing it?
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The UK gives 4 months to child raps it's and suspended sentence to r*pe gangs
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Absolutely wild that any paper would publish this in the first place. My most charitable guess would be that noone actually knew what a shota is, and noone bothered to read some trash social science paper.
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Even so, how is some coomers personal masturbation practices even noteworthy for anthropology? It's not even like it was for s*x research or something.
Truly baffling.
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Because anthropology isn't a science.
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Queer autoethnography doesn't have much to do with anthropology besides appropriating some of the language
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Autoethnographies should lead to expulsion, not PhDs. I'm betting he's telling the truth that no one thought what he was writing was bad until people outside that academic bubble heard about it. I'm also betting no consequences were faced for the various academics who supported and encouraged him to jack off to shota and get rewarded for it.
You don't hate these universities enough. You think you do, but you don't.
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WRONG
In 500 years from now, intense furry and shota documentation will allow us to understand the origin of 100 man paedofurria orgies
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Its social sciences, you can publish pretty much anything there
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Academia is just
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He thinks that if those people didn't have to go into the woodchipper, then he shouldn't have to go into the woodchipper
He does raise a good point but it's not the one he thinks it is
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That woodchipers are outdated and barbaric, and we should use scaphism to give back to the nature?
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Excuse me while I scream at the sky that this is basically the kind of person that most loudly represents gay guys in the modern west
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You got molested, became a furry and seethe at women.
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don't forget ended up on here
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Confirming for the millionth time that cute twinks are pizza lovers.
What do we do to pizza lovers again?
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Motherficker really calling his libertarian goon sessions "independent research" lmao
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Nooo officer I really need this kiddy porn
it's for uh science 
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You can get paid to jack off?
Any prestigious institutions want to fund this???? I only need a budget of 10k a month for OF subscriptions
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watching the video makes this even funnier, he legit sounds like Bruno
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Definitely just a libertarianweeb who wants to insist loli and shota prevent libertarianism when anyone who creates that content ends up on a watchlist
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But I think a lot of anthropology is going into some backwards third world culture and pretending to be a "neutral observer" then discovering some "surprising" result to publish like "oh actually cannibalism isn't that bad"
But if you are jacking off to shota you can't even pretend to be a neutral observer", thats showing your hand. I don't even know. Probably if he does jack off to it hes a libertarianweeb.
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If it was an ethnography there's potential merit. But no, it's an autoethnography, which means he was masturbating mentally as well as physically.
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Reads like projection
Are you a libertarian?
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Neighbor
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See, this is why normal people dont take "experts" serious when redditors tell you to "trust the experts".
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what if we fed him to hungry BIPOCs in new guinea?
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Banishment to North Sentinel Island
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I'm gonna do an autoethnographic study of fedposting libertarians
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What a world we live in
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More proof that Queer Theory promotes libertarianism
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Always has
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Snapshots:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/masturbation-paper-researcher-attacks-groupthink-backlash:
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writing a paper describing how he masturbated to sexualised images of young boys:
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Karl Andersson was expelled:
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Manchester -- which had funded Mr Andersson's PhD:
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academics keep proving that sometimes burning books is good
too bad the shit's digital meowadays
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I posted about this on here two years ago and have been wanting an update. Nice surprise to see social sciences academia do the right thing.
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Only after exposure. This should have never been accepted, and the response was very 'it's not bad it happened, it's bad people found out'.
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I was gonna post the clip stating that 99% of British men are paedophiles but I can't find it anymore
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Shota (and loli, by extension) =/= actual kiddie porn
And you're a massive fricking r-slurred if you think shota/loli is in the same level of heinous that actual child porn is
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I think it's weird
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I agree
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I also admit date r*pe is not as bad as skullfrick raping a geriatric to death. But.
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Do a less r-slurred analogy next
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I think any analogy with 2 degenerate things, one more degenerate than the other, should work pretty well if you're not r-slurred or want to defend shota and loli.
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What about the people who jerk it to those cartoons though?
They're 100% libertarian through and through.
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Some of them are, some of them aren't. I'd imagine most aren't, and of those who are, a majority probably won't consume child pornography or ever touch a child. But I can't know for sure.
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!metashit !Jannies come laugh at this fricking goober
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I see you are slow in the head. I will put this the simplest way I can.
I don't give a frick about shotacons.
REAL child pornography, WITH REAL KIDS, is likely the most vile thing humans have came up with.
Comparing RAPING REAL CHILDREN to CARTOONS is disgusting, and you are R-SLURRED
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Anyway, I never said that drawings were literally CSAM. It's just that you guys always have the same cheap "not me!" weasel arguments when it comes up.
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okay, r-slur
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n-n-no one stutters every single sentence, weird thing to flex being s-such a libertarian I "forget" to do a g-gimmick
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KEK
Seething
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He is also FAT
like FAT FAT
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I thought that was just european culture
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