Manchester investigates PhD student’s masturbation paper

This is not research and taints academia. It does not advance knowledge nor serve any public interest. It is a disgrace.

It is just trying to normalise paedophilia; this is absolutely disgusting!

There can be no doubt that this paper is unethical by the code of any discipline, that it uses images that are illegal in the UK, and is pathetically poor scholarship. Any qualitative researcher should be outraged that this area of scholarship has become an international laughing stock. What troubles me most is that this paper was published *in April* and until this week, no one in the academic community either noticed or cared. There was astonishingly poor judgement on the part of the author/researcher. But many other academics and departments should be doing some serious soul-searching: his PhD supervisor, Dr Kinsella, (whom he thanks in the paper acknowledgements); the Manchester academic from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures who passed his annual review earlier this year; the paper's TWO peer reviewers; the editors of Qualitative Research (all sociologists at Cardiff University); the numerous esteemed researchers on QR's editorial board; and the hundreds of academics who must have seen this paper when it was published 'online first' 3.5 months ago, observed that it violated the ethical codes of every discipline and was likely illegal, but chose to say nothing.

I am afraid this is the logical conclusion of the weak and muddled ‘methodologies’ that have become acceptable in Humanities and Social Sciences. ‘Critical Discourse’, even many so-called ‘Content Analysis’ and ‘ethnographic’ studies only reinforce the prejudices of the researcher and provide no new, genuine knowledge.

I have campaigned for less publicly funded academic research for over a decade and this seems to prove my point. There is too much "worthless" / inappropriate" research and too many research papers on the same subjects, read by hardly anyone other than those directly involved. In some cases, it seems, not even read by those supposed to be reviewing the work (are they paid for their reviews or unpaid?)

Did it take 3 whole months to refine his technique? Surely mention in passing that some 'readers' of these comics use them as stimulation for self-arousal would have sufficed.

This part of a wider campaign to make paedophillia accepted by society. The term Minor attracted persons (M.A.P.S) has been pushed into the LBGTQ community and their people lobbying that community into accepting attraction to children as “normal” I have to prejudice against any gender preference, you can choose to be whatever you want and we are free to question and research the world and our species but we must stand up to those that seek to rape and kill our children.

Sorry , my damn iPhone just wants to auto correct every thing I type. Ignore my previous post. This is What I am trying to say... This is part of a wider campaign to make paedophillia accepted by society. The term Minor attracted persons (M.A.P.S) has been introduced into LBGTQ community and there are people lobbying that community into accepting attraction to children as “normal” I have no prejudice against any gender preference or race. We’re all cool you can choose to be whatever you want and we are free to question and research the world and our species but we must stand up to those that seek to rape and kill our children.