Manchester University is investigating a PhD student after he wrote a paper documenting his experiences of masturbating while looking at ‘extreme’ comics featuring drawings of ‘young boys’.
Karl Andersson spent three months deriving sexual pleasure from a subgenre of underground Japanese comics and keeping a journal, eventually writing a 4,000-word study on the subject.
The books depict young males in a ‘cute or, most often, sexually explicit way’, according to the author himself.
In the paper, which was first published in April but has only just come to the university’s attention after it was seized on by social media users, Mr Andersson gives graphic accounts of his sexual habits.
His paper was published (!) in the Journal of Qualitative Research under the title: ‘I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan’.
In it, Mr Andersson writes: ‘I therefore started reading the comics in the same way as my research participants had told me that they did it: while masturbating.
‘In this research note, I will recount how I set up an experimental method of masturbating to shota comics, and how this participant observation of my own desire not only gave me a more embodied understanding of the topic for my research but also made me think about loneliness and ways to combat it as driving forces of the culture of self-published erotic comics.’
He records how ‘my desire did not only emanate from the content…but from the fact that other people too were excited by this often extreme content and masturbated to it’.
Mr Andersson said the ‘feeling was enhanced when I read a secondhand [comic], which I assumed had been used for masturbation by its previous owner, and thus been “charged”, like a magic charm that would continue to bring happiness to new owners’.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/10/manc...stigated-over-masturbation-research-17163292/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Andersson-5
Somehow two academics (at least) read this during peer review and agreed it was a good idea to publish. The paper is publicly available (for the moment).
Naturally the Tories are jumping on this as a reason to defund higher education. So, thanks Karl, good job.
Karl Andersson spent three months deriving sexual pleasure from a subgenre of underground Japanese comics and keeping a journal, eventually writing a 4,000-word study on the subject.
The books depict young males in a ‘cute or, most often, sexually explicit way’, according to the author himself.
In the paper, which was first published in April but has only just come to the university’s attention after it was seized on by social media users, Mr Andersson gives graphic accounts of his sexual habits.
His paper was published (!) in the Journal of Qualitative Research under the title: ‘I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan’.
In it, Mr Andersson writes: ‘I therefore started reading the comics in the same way as my research participants had told me that they did it: while masturbating.
‘In this research note, I will recount how I set up an experimental method of masturbating to shota comics, and how this participant observation of my own desire not only gave me a more embodied understanding of the topic for my research but also made me think about loneliness and ways to combat it as driving forces of the culture of self-published erotic comics.’
He records how ‘my desire did not only emanate from the content…but from the fact that other people too were excited by this often extreme content and masturbated to it’.
Mr Andersson said the ‘feeling was enhanced when I read a secondhand [comic], which I assumed had been used for masturbation by its previous owner, and thus been “charged”, like a magic charm that would continue to bring happiness to new owners’.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/10/manc...stigated-over-masturbation-research-17163292/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Andersson-5
Somehow two academics (at least) read this during peer review and agreed it was a good idea to publish. The paper is publicly available (for the moment).
Naturally the Tories are jumping on this as a reason to defund higher education. So, thanks Karl, good job.
Forgive me if I am wrong but I've never thought a bursting question that academia needed answering was about what sick cnuts feel when reading about underage boys having sex.