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Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023

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I feel like there is some koro joke to be made about getting your masturbation diary retracted from an anthropology journal, but I can't quite make it work. Please help.

children and young people

Children aren't people, says academia. Not exactly something we didn't already know, but at least they had the sense to write it down.

potentially cause significant harm

Was the conclusion wrongthink? (Though I'm more surprised they went this far over specifically shota; they usually only care about this when it's about girls, not boys. Maybe that's why it passed review in the first place.)

I sincerely doubt anyone was harmed by this man’s meticulously recorded alone time.

"Harm" is obviously the wrong word to describe it, but the man in question is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, which I assume means his income is a publicly funded stipend. The idea of someone writing about his masturbation habits and trying to pass it off as "auto-ethnography" makes me roll my eyes. The idea of someone being paid by the taxpayer to do so is an outrage.