The University of Manchester is investigating how one of its PhD students was allowed to publish a journal paper describing how he masturbated to sexualised images of young boys.
The Sage journal Qualitative Research, which published the paper subtitled ‘Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture’ published by the Swedish doctoral candidate Karl Andersson, will also review how the article on a manga comic genre depicting sexual encounters involving young boys was vetted, amid calls for its editors to resign.
