• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    and theres clearly work for a visual anthropologist in the pedo-erotica publishing environment in japan, this dude just did it wrong imo

    Of course that's true, but you don't study stuff like this by actually engaging in the activity to search for a "deeper understanding", which is his argument in the study. That's nonsense

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      im not sure where the line between engaging critically and analytically with media ends and inappropriateness begins---i know its before "i locked myself in my apartment and swore off sex" tho :yikes:

      an inquiry into the ethics is def warranted but not from the postures presented in the article

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        You can read the study for yourself, I linked it in another comment here, obvious content warning for him excusing himself for this stuff.

        It sounds like someone that got too wrapped up into what he was researching he became it. He even says that the only way to research further was to experience it himself.

        Guy really needs professional help

        • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          i think we're basically agreed the real question is how it got published? without him getting sent to like mandatory therapy lol

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, how does this get published? How does his supervisor think that him participating in what he's researching is okay? Even in regular research, this is a large red flag. Can't there be tonnes of bias?

            And yeah guy should have been sent to therapy and pulled from researching this subject as soon as he suggested it.

            • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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              2 years ago

              i feel like a certain proportion of researchers are probably into the whole "the only way to continue research is on myself!!!" cackling like maniac

              dudes will literally turn into a mad scientist before going to therapy

              • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                That's almost what he said verbatim. Instead crackling like a maniac he made a joke about it

                CW shota stuff

                Audre Lorde (1997: 282) has written: ‘The erotic cannot be felt secondhand.’ Indeed. And so I realized that my body was equipped with a research tool of its own that could give me, quite literally, a first-hand understanding of shota