Only Doing It For The Betterment Of Us All
Time to revisit the world of “queer studies,” via the academic journal Qualitative Research:
I wanted to understand how my research participants experience sexual pleasure when reading shota, a Japanese genre of self-published erotic comics that features young boy characters. I therefore started reading the comics in the same way as my research participants had told me that they did it: while masturbating.
Hey, I’m just reading what it says here.
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.
It’s embodied, you see. And before you go getting any untoward ideas, it’s all being done selflessly, high-mindedly, for the greater good:
Untangling this largely unresearched knot of desires for fictional boy characters will give us a better understanding of human sexuality and provide a more solid basis for policymaking.
The, um, research in question – by Mr Karl Andersson, a PhD student at the University of Manchester – was not without its challenges and frustrations: “I had hit a wall in my research. Semi-structured interviews can only take you so far,” we’re told. “I had a persistent feeling of only having traced the surface of my topic, and of wanting to go deeper.” And the hence the masturbation, of course.
Further, annotated and fairly graphic, details of Mr Andersson’s paedophilic self-pleasuring project – sorry, “ethnographic fieldwork” – can be perused via the link above. Should that be your thang.
Update, via the comments:
Mags adds,
From mental masturbation to actual masturbation.
Stunning and brave.
Indeed, and given the rambling on offer, the words self-involved scarcely cover it.
As to the “embodied understanding” mentioned above, it remains unclear what exactly was achieved – beyond the obvious, I mean. Mr Andersson tells us that during three months of, er, research, and 30 notebook entries, his mind often wandered to thoughts of other gentlemen doing much the same thing with the same publications, including the copies he’d acquired second-hand. This is described as a “feeling of intimacy.” Dozing off afterwards is described as “self-care,” which is apparently important. And we’re informed that the Cellophane wrappers of his pornography collection “signalled luxury and investment in myself.” It’s Earth-rumbling stuff.
Oddly, there’s no mention of an obvious issue, to which one might suppose an enquiring mind might turn. As I understand it, the protagonists in shota are very often pre-pubescent. That this detail doesn’t appear to have concerned Mr Andersson, or his peers and supervisors, possibly tells us something about the academic circles in which he moves. Presumably, this kind of contrived edginess is itself found titillating. Sort of, “Ooh, aren’t we terribly daring. How sophisticated we are.”
This isn’t just someone who gets off by masturbating over pictures of children. It’s someone who gets off by everyone knowing they masturbate over pictures of children. All under the guise of “research.”
But hey, progress!
As CJ Nerd notes in the comments, Mr Andersson’s paper, and his pretence of intellectual heft, feels like a shit test. And so, one has to wonder whether the widespread and rapid propagation, not least in academia, of transgender ideology and boutique identities has emboldened other niche psychological demographics – including, seemingly, paedophiles – to make themselves known while daring us to disapprove.
An earlier visit to the world of “queer studies” can be found here. And somewhat related, this.
Via Alice Sullivan.
“Is that an outstanding research tool, or are you just enjoying the project?”
“When taxpayers tire of subsidising this sort of thing, we’ll be told it’s because of ‘anti-intellectualism'”
Instapundit.
From mental masturbation to actual masturbation.
Stunning and brave.
Mr Andersson refers to himself as a “visual anthropologist.” Other terms are available.
Reading it so you don’t have to…
“I will therefore make a point of writing this research note in a rather casual and hands-on way…”
Indeed.
“Funding
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.”
Well, that’s a relief.
“I had hit a wall in my research.”
He should measure how high up the wall, just to make it really scientific.
Bedizened he is with medals, 2 in total. The Kyiv Film Festival could be in for a shakeup and the unreal boys might be the ones in leather coats flashing their silver teeth should Mr Andersson continue his stunts. Dopey enough to see it as another badge of honour.
Description
Unreal Boys
Awarded date 2021
Granting Organisations Kyiv Film Festival
As I understand it, the protagonists in shota are very often pre-pubescent. That this detail doesn’t appear to have concerned Mr Andersson’s peers and supervisors probably tells us something about the academic circles in which he moves. Presumably, this kind of contrived edginess is itself found titillating. Sort of, “Ooh, aren’t we daring. How sophisticated we are.”
And this seems apposite:
But hey, progress!
Somewhat related.
So I assume the pages of his dissertation are stuck together.
Okay, okay, I am leaving no need for the pistol…
This isn’t just someone who gets off by masturbating over pictures of children. It’s someone who gets off by everyone knowing they masturbate over pictures of children. All under the guise of “research.”
That.
That.
We await a full-blown Bring-Your-Kiddie-Porn-Stash-To-Work Day.
Surely that would be even more progressive?
I suppose the bright side of all this is that, come the revolution, they’ve all already identified themselves.
“Funding
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.”
Well, that’s a relief.
And, presumably, a happy ending.
Not unrelated, the Pilgrims took the area over from the Indians, the whalers from the Pilgrims, fishermen from the whalers, hippie scum from the fishermen, gays from the commie hippies, but don’t you heterosexuals dare come into our “safe space”.
“Research”. Right.
Damn those bacherlorettes, it was different when we did it..
He doesn’t look the type. /sarc
post-homophobic homophobia
Ah yes! That. But can anyone explain to my simple mind WTF it means.
Also from the bachelorette story:
the queers are faced with tolerating the heterosexual gaze
When you gaze at the queer, the queer gazes also.
Band name? Queer Gazes
It’s an experimental method of masturbating to cartoons of young boys, people, so get your heads out of the gutter—it’s science!
This is illegal in the UK. Even drawn images of children are CP by English law. So if he was doing this in Manchester, he was breaking the law.
post-homophobic homophobia
Ah yes! That. But can anyone explain to my simple mind WTF it means.
It means they don’t actually want the problem to be solved. Because then they’d have nothing to grift about.
Or, to put it another way
” In our research, many drag queens said that bachelorette parties are their main source of income and that fewer LGBTQ+ people attend their shows.”
How very DARE these people provide over half our income!
*looks for UNREAD button*
*looks for UNREAD button*
Hey, I had to plough through this stuff – and in more detail than I’d care to, frankly. I don’t see why you lot should escape unscathed.
I could be sitting in the garden, you know.
“I had hit a wall in my research.”
*insert Jackson Pollock joke here*
*ducks*
but don’t you heterosexuals dare come into our “safe space”.
I did hear about a few women who had bachelorette parties at male strip clubs. They never said anything about whether those clubs catered primarily to straight women or gay men.
Grooming groomers?
“This isn’t just someone who gets off by masturbating over pictures of children. It’s someone who gets off by everyone knowing they masturbate over pictures of children. “
It’s a shit-test.
“I do this. Do you dare call me out?”
What a wanker.
I set up an experimental method of masturbating
Actual LOL
Actual LOL
Precious, isn’t it?
Gentrification operates like an invasive species.
:::sigh::: In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that long ago that due to all manner of a tangle of zoning laws, property covenants and discretionary lending practices that groups were legally confined to certain properties.
It used to be considered a Bad Thing. It used to be considered an encroachment on an individual’s property rights.
Now not only are people going to have the local mob after them if they purchase a property or open a business while being the wrong color, but Those People should not even patronize a business least they contaminate the scared space of the anointed.
This is illegal in the UK. Even drawn images of children are CP by English law. So if he was doing this in Manchester, he was breaking the law.
The rozzers are far too busy arresting people for Facebook posts.
transform communities to the point where they become inhospitable to the original inhabitants.
Poor old Jones Two trying to justify the analogy of the article by getting a word in about “racialized intergenerational transfer of wealth through real estate” but what his co-author obviously wants to talk about is conventional popular girls “trying to escape their straight world”, “displaced by rape culture and seek refuge in queer spaces”, but choosing a night of bawdy titillation in a tourist-friendly gay club instead of having their consciousness raised in a lesbian club.
And we’re informed that the Cellophane wrappers of his pornography collection “signalled luxury and investment in myself.”
Porno wrappers. Classy.
Laurie Essig is professor and director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College.
Porno wrappers. Classy.
I wonder if that is covered in her course, “Decolonizing Porn”, surely that would be a vital topic for these days of troubled times in which we live in.
Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw Nee-naw
‘ello ‘ello ‘ello.
We’ve had a report of people being untoward about a paedophile.
“Decolonizing Porn”,
So taking the “colon” out of porn. I wonder if she inverts them.
Perhaps instead of Experimental Wanking™, Mr. Anderssen just needs a cuddle.
Not just certified, but dual board certified by Cuddle Professionals International, in the U.K., and Cuddle Sanctuary, in Los Angeles. I wonder if there is something like the MCAT you have to take.
I may be old fashioned, but I think that misses the point.
Now I don’t want to get all stereotypical here, but a hallway festooned with Mapplethorpe might make one think “cuddling” might just be an euphemism.
James has Zoom sessions for people who feel safer cuddling alone.
I’m going to need a minute to process that.
Untangling this largely unresearched knot of desires for fictional boy characters will give us a better understanding of human sexuality and provide a more solid basis for policymaking.
I believe he’s right here. I’m thinking of the sort of policies which involve gibbets and fire.
Zoom sessions for people who feel safer cuddling alone
It’s an experimental method of masturbating
Time to revisit the world of “queer studies,”
Do we have to?
academic journal Qualitative Research
Says it all, really. It literally can be anything you want it to be. Bad enough he was jerking off and napping on the job – as part of the job – but to pedo porn on top of that? And the cops are more likely to come after us for saying something uncomplimentary about that.
Related news: Geraldo Rivera really, really hates being reminded of his comically sleazy history.
stargazing position,” …
Lay on the sand and look at the stars…
Or the other way ’round…
This is the moment when the killing of four Muslims in Albuquerque ceased to be a national news story.
I am slightly curious as to what Mr. Andersson was doing between 2003 and 2018.
Reading it so you don’t have to…
The paper is remarkable only in the author’s self-involvement and how little there is there. Setting aside issues of illegality and the pathologies of paedophilia, which are not addressed, at all, the paper itself is laughably feeble. The lines quoted above – about a “feeling of intimacy” and the wrappers of Mr Andersson’s porn stash – are much of the supposed substance of the thing. The rest is largely self-involved rambling – as “autoethnography” usually is. And this, it seems, is what is considered good enough for academia’s Clown Quarter.
As CJ Nerd said upthread, it feels like a shit test. And so, one has to wonder whether the widespread and rapid propagation, not least in academia, of transgender ideology and boutique identities has emboldened other niche psychological demographics – including, seemingly, paedophiles – to make themselves known while daring us to disapprove.
Mr Andersson refers to himself as a “visual anthropologist.”
Scanning his the thumbnails of Mr Andersson’s videos, my eye was drawn to one called “My first PhD year ends in FAIL” in which he explains:
I’ve been working a lot on my ethics application – because all research needs to be approved by an ethical committee before fieldwork commences. And, unfortunately, my research was given an unfavourable opinion, which means that it failed, uh, thoroughly
He doesn’t offer any details as to what resulted in the unfavourable opinion or even if it’s related to that Qualitative Research article.
But since his article refers – in the plural – to “anthropologists having sex with research participants in order to understand a certain practice, such as anonymous sex” it certainly raises an eyebrow as to what he might have been turned down for.
Incidentally, this is the abstract from anthropological sexy time article he mentions (my italics):
This article addresses the use of sexual relations with research informants in fieldwork for the purpose of gathering information.The analysis is based on the research that the author himself carried out between 2009 and 2014 on anonymous sexual encounters between men in public places in Catalonia.
The article aims to demonstrate that sexual interaction with informants – notwithstanding appeals to scientific objectivity and professional ethics – can be a useful tool for gaining a better understanding of social reality.
This study on anonymous sex shows that participating in sexual activity can provide the researcher with a great deal of information which would not be accessible via other relationships with research informants. However, the article also addresses certain limitations – which cannot be ignored – in fieldwork of this sort and in the interpretation of the data obtained.
I don’t have access to the full article, but goodness only knows how this was legal let alone ethical – and ethically approved.
He doesn’t offer any details as to what resulted in the unfavourable opinion…
Mr Andersson is quite practised at being evasive and disingenuous. In another video, he feigns being puzzled by why anyone would imagine that an appetite for cartoon pornography involving sexualised children, including the pre-pubescent, would have any relation at all to the real-world sexual abuse of minors. “Why would we think that?” he asks, as if the connection were esoteric and inexplicable. As if paedophilic predators didn’t search out such things and find them every bit as “fascinating” as Mr Andersson says he does.
This has been picked up by an MP.
He’s wrong about the taxpayer funding.
https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1557236449786957824?t=yV-FBXAPsVqmc9qM05Dggw&s=19
“Why would we think that?” he asks, as if the connection were esoteric and inexplicable.
Major nonce alert!
Major nonce alert!
It’s rather like saying, “Well, yes, I do have a massive stash of cartoon kiddie porn, all in lovely Cellophane bags, and yes, I do spend a lot of time masturbating to it, and then writing about masturbating to it; but that doesn’t imply any sexual interest in children, obviously. By the way, I’m still available for babysitting. How is little Tommy?”
It’s almost surreal.
It’s almost surreal.
Ever feel like you’re living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting?
“Gender has no rules”, and apparently you should be able to order genitalia as if from Amazon.
Check the reviews first.
Check the reviews first.
Trying to fix a software problem by smashing up the hardware.
I wonder if this is the same Karl Andersson?
“Destroyer – Journal of Apollonian Beauty and Dionysian Sexuality was a Swedish-based gay magazine published by Karl Andersson, with the objective “to bring back the adolescent boy as one of the ideals of gay culture”.[1] The magazine contained features, essays, interviews, reviews, columns, culture articles, fiction and sexually suggestive shots of boys as young as 13.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer_Magazine
“In his Seminal work, ‘I am not Alone’, Karl Andersson…..”
https://twitter.com/NassauAlias/status/1556931689951232000?s=20&t=koYfxfh3263yJ2PqKKAcqg
How is little Tommy?”
He’s a pinball wizard…
I wonder if this is the same Karl Andersson?
Take a wild guess.
Destroyer – Journal of Apollonian Beauty and Dionysian Sexuality
I think we have a pretty good idea of what Mr Andersson is. Were there any doubt.
The, um, research in question – by Mr Karl Andersson, a PhD student at the University of Manchester
Note how universities hire pedophiles but shun conservatives.
Ben Sixsmith has more.
What is disturbing is not just that Mr Andersson had these thoughts…but that other academics read and accepted them.
And also that no academics are reported to have objected to what Andersson was doing.
No offense to our own RC, but what a Richard Cranium.
Gentrification: otherwise known as revitalizing a neighborhood so there are jobs and crime goes down (at least in that spot). Can’t have that.
“journal of qualitative research” oh FFS what an oxymoron.
Not unrelated, a licensed counselor has thoughts.
Good lord. I and my sniper rifle could be very busy. Or maybe we’ll just get SMOD.
“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven…”
Trying to fix a software problem by smashing up the hardware.
The left likes to fix software problems by smashing up the hardware, and fix hardware problems by smashing up the software.
Well TBF on the gentrification thing, I have seen some tired, run down areas that were significantly improved when gays discovered them and moved in. Wilton Manors in the Ft. Lauderdale area was for a long time an area of overgrown vegetation, dreary houses that needed a good pressure wash and coat of paint, etc. These were smaller homes built in the 1960’s that are simply too small for what middle class families want today. Gays moved in, converted the 3BR/2BA homes to 2BR/2BA and the difference was night and day. Haven’t been through that area in 10 years or so. Hopefully it still is in good shape. Last I heard the city council there was all-gay. It would be a pity if some slob heteros were to drag the standards down. But then gay of 20 years ago might not be the gay of today. I wouldn’t know but if what I see on social media these days is any indication…well…
Well TBF on the gentrification thing…
The difference is that the twits whining about “hetrification” aren’t complaining about heterosexuals moving in, pushing them out, and/or driving the property values down with the all hours boisterous bachlorette Bacchanaliae, they are eating their livers just because some randos are going to gay bars then going home.
Heh.
I’ll bet you that the gays who complain about “hetrification” are all in favor of every other kind of “diversity”.
one has to wonder whether the widespread and rapid propagation, not least in academia, of transgender ideology and boutique identities has emboldened other niche psychological demographics – including, seemingly, paedophiles – to make themselves known while daring us to disapprove.
That. The pedos want their ‘pride’ now.
The pedos want their ‘pride’ now.
Well, there does seem to have been quite a bit of nonce-as-oppressed-minority sentiment appearing recently in academia’s Clown Quarter and Clown-adjacent areas – Allyn Walker, Miranda Galbreath, Ole Martin Moen, etc – along with the conceit that in order to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, we must stop being judgmental of the adults who wish to molest them and thereby ruin their lives.
If you poke through his videos, you’ll see that Mr Andersson has embraced the mannerisms and affectations of his leftist academic peers – the use of “whiteness” and “white privilege,” etc., and the default air of moral and intellectual superiority. And this is done while presenting paedophilic masturbation as some feat of scholarship, while breaking British law, and despite having published a magazine that exploited children in, shall we say, unsavoury ways. Those 10-year-olds in speedos that so “fascinate” Mr Andersson.
Typically disingenuous, Mr Andersson framed his own unhappy psychodrama – sexualised photos of small boys juxtaposed with headlines about the rape and murder of children – as an “artwork,” while resenting any use of the word paedophilia.
[ Added: ]
Oh, and as Ben Sixsmith notes in his article, linked upthread, plenty of those aforementioned academic peers hurried to Mr Andersson’s defence via Twitter. Whether they were fully aware of what it is they were defending so breathlessly is unclear. Perhaps the words “ethnography” and “queer studies” were all they needed to know before rushing to a decision as to who the good guys were.
Re the above, hot take detected.
Re the above, hot take detected.
Our twitterer, speaking of masturbation;
The real solution is to put fences around universities as they did in the olden days with asylums, and make their internet access intranet so they can’t infect anyone outside the walls.
Another one has thoughts on the topic.
@FMM
they are eating their livers just because some randos are going to gay bars then going home.
Without giving them the chance of “proselitizing”
Humans are tribal. We want a clearly defined community to which we can belong. In a big country (and even UK is big) with people moving around, we are surrounded by strangers. The Left wants to reimpose tribal boundaries (anti-cultural appropriation, oppose gentrification, stay in your lane, oppose inter-racial marriage, white men with asian girls is “yellow fever”, minority dormitories on campus, political blocks based on race/gender, on and on) but that horse has left the barn. What they want is not only impossible but is tearing society apart.
Another one has thoughts on the topic.
Masturbate first….
This isn’t a bad theory actually. Thinking about snacking? Can’t get to sleep? Got a tough meeting coming up?
Speaking of the latter, a friend of mine advocates one off the wrist in the office toilet during stressful times and before difficult meetings. I have only tried it once (in the office loo) but can confirm it is relaxing. Better than medication….
Now I am self-employed and work from home things are different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3lhfVpLL4
[ Compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera, checks temperature, thinks about cherry gelato stashed in freezer. ]
I have only tried it once (in the office loo) but can confirm it is relaxing.
I want everyone’s hands where I can see them. None of this “I’m just looking for my car keys” crap.
Now I am self-employed and work from home things are different.
So, Jon Lovitz has a child in the UK. Who knew?
‘Related’…
https://twitter.com/andreww1967/status/1557657992337711105
Masturbate first
Clean the pipes!
We haven’t had art for a while so;
Part the First, a modern reenactment of The Rape of The Sabine Women. My take, anyway.
Part the Second, Stella offers friendship and compassion to tame the beast of The Industrial Age.
Teh Party of Science!™, Part 7639.
Teh Party of Science!™, Part 7639.
I would prefer to compare leftists to cancer cells.
Look, Ma (or Dave), no hands!
baby = cancer: leave it to the woke to show their true selves.
baby = cancer: leave it to the woke to show their true selves.
That and “parasite” which by definition has to be a different species than the host, which may be a worse comparison.
Farnsworth: yes, baby= parasite. Who would even think like that?
Over at Althouse, we have an essay where someone is arguing that children who are adopted would have been better off aborted. These creeps take the best living conditions in world history and the best things in that life (children) and call it the worst thing ever. ugh
Who would even think like that?
The same sort of shitheels who think things like:
Exhibit A;
Exhibit B.
A good article about this thing here:
https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/circling-the-wagons
Another one has thoughts on the topic.
A friend once told me that Bob Guccione said exactly the same thing. I can’t say, never having heard of his publication before now.
A good article about this thing here:
“The most likely scenario, to my mind, is that all the above people are either well-meaning, or very distracted, or both”
I am skeptical.
And another:
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/polishing-the-banister/