Manchester quizzed over funding of masturbation paper author

As a lot of research is subsidised by teaching income, it would be interesting to note if this research was actually 'funded'. If there was no direct funding for this, then one way or another it was indirectly subsidised using UG fees. Loans that are then carried by people studying degrees. If vanity (and quite possibly harmful) research like this is carried out, how is it properly justified if it has to be subsidised from other university activities ? There's not just some ethics investigations due, but a real examination of what some academics are actually doing at Manchester, with precious higher education resources.

The paper is still publicly available on research gate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360206602_I_am_not_alone_-_we_are_all_alone_Using_masturbation_as_an_ethnographic_method_in_research_on_shota_subculture_in_Japan