Masturbation journal paper exposes deeper problems in research

Karl Andersson’s ‘appallingly bad’ paper has exposed the insanity of ethnography’s turn towards introspection and other postmodern research methods that place little value on objectivity, says William Matthews

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August 19, 2022
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September 5, 2022
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A long overdue comment, and a shame that it required a rather easy target to generate this sort of response.
What an astonishing casual use of Censorship in the interlectial arena. The boy is speaking out against the casual spread of 'Hentai pornography'. Think he deserves merit for interlectial honesty. The bejing style censorship is disturbing.
Objections to this paper don't have much to do with it's ethics or scholarship. It's the topic that makes people uncomfortable. And it's precisely that discomfort that suggests the inquiry might be necessary and valuable. It's possible that masturbation as a method of inquiry has an epistemological rigor that fatuous moral grandstanding doesn't.

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