Masturbation as a form of research

[sevendaughters]

Not me, but a Ph.D student at Manchester, in his article I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan for the journal Qualitative Research: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14687941221096600

There's a Fielder-gone-rogue turn of phrase in this frankly fucking weird publication:

What I learned from this experiment was to attach greater meaning and value to the act of masturbation, and especially of doing it to two-dimensional material in the form of comics. By that I don't mean that I had belittled it before, but in a way I think that we all belittle, unconsciously, practices that we don't understand. Masturbating made me understand.

Anyway, what have you learned whilst jacking it?

[Sebastian Cobb]

I saw this yesterday and at first thought it was 'lol guy tried to do an academic paper about wanking to hentai' but as I was going to bed this bled on my twitter feed and I thought fucking hell this guy has has two published magazines dedicated to how much of a pederast he is.

https://twitter.com/madjane_/status/1557295894428413954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1557295894428413954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

[Zero Gravitas]

Finally an academicising of the 3D vs 2D waifu debate.

I'm a PhD student researching how fans of subcultural comics in Japan experience desire and think about sexual identities, especially in regards to fictional and actual realities. My PhD research is funded by the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.

Oh. yeah seemingly.

[sevendaughters]

I saw this yesterday and at first thought it was 'lol guy tried to do an academic paper about wanking to hentai' but as I was going to bed this bled on my twitter feed and I thought fucking hell this guy has has two published magazines dedicated to how much of a pederast he is.

https://twitter.com/madjane_/status/1557295894428413954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1557295894428413954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

I feel so much better about my kneejerk judgement of him now

[Sebastian Cobb]

I feel so much better about my kneejerk judgement of him now

I bet you did you dirty old bollocks

[bgmnts]

Do they pixilate genitals in hentai?

[sevendaughters]

Do they pixilate genitals in hentai?

POLICE ALERT

[Endicott]

Anyway, what have you learned whilst jacking it?

It was an eye opener discovering how stealthy my mother is.

[buttgammon]

Academics often get very hung-up on publications, so it's both reassuring and terrifying that this has appeared in what I presume is an actual peer-reviewed journal.

[Glebe]

[poo]

Government hate social scientists. This is not going to help their HE budgets. Useful paper though in that it highlights how utterly fucked the academic publishing system is.

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

<Giles Coren enters sofa thread>

[MrMrs]

It's worth investigating what it represents i think. It could symbolise escapism and solo indulgence. What does that say about our psyche?

This isn't it though. This is someone waking over cartoons.

[Psybro]

I feel so much better about my kneejerk judgement of him now

Yeah I was going to interrogate my own ideas on whether you can ever attach a worth to an academic work but I reckon this bloke's just a bit of a wrong'un tbh.

I think he's done what the kids call 'telling on yourself'.

[jobotic]

Anyway, what have you learned whilst jacking it?

That cups of tea can appear by magic!!

Hahaha 28 etc

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's worth investigating what it represents i think. It could symbolise escapism and solo indulgence. What does that say about our psyche?

This isn't it though. This is someone waking over cartoons.

The grim part is mp's using it as an example as to why academia should only ever be a thing to employ your employability.

Feels like the academic community did miss a trick by not dismissing it as 'a load of noncey shit', mind.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Ethnography based on a pointstand epistemology.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

The grim part is mp's using it as an example as to why academia should only ever be a thing to employ your employability.

The shit from this only ever splashes on things like Marxism or Feminism, or just sack a few more philosophers or theorists they're just doing obscurantism anyway. Meanwhile "autoethnography" and whatever else fucking rolls on like turd down the hill so long as it pins itself to eye rolling truism about universals and reason just being the projections of particular social perspectives, man

[Sebastian Cobb]

I probably spent more time wanking and smoking cutters choice than I did cramming (an augmented version of the pomorodo method), but then I only have a bsc. God knows what I'd have achieved if I could've made it the main event.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

arguably focusing on employability leads to more shit like this because it means everything has to be about the most viscerally and concretely real things, no ideas just bodies as feelings if possible and everything reduced to expressions of social differences, the broader the better. which leads to narrowing of methodology and the more opportunities to publish papers about wanking to drawings of teenagers. what private sector/hr specialists think is good is exactly what you'd expect

by arguably i mean certainly

[Mr Vegetables]

This research sounds as empty as the Lacanian signifier of the phallus

[Glebe]

[Video Game Fan 2000]

after getting funding redirected from the uk after brexit, irish scientists unveil potato that mashes itself

[BritishHobo]

Proper frustrating that this nonce cunt has now given loads of ammunition to the right-wing press and MPs to go 'ahhhhh look universities are taking all your tax money and giving it to paedos'. Already despaired at one comment thread where an English Lit professor replied to their own MP to urge him not to use this to further discredit and defund academia as a whole - only for loads of fucking rage-before-thought idiots to pile on going "OH YOU MUST THINK IT'S GOOD TO FUND PAEDOPHILES THEN"

[buttgammon]

Proper frustrating that this nonce cunt has now given loads of ammunition to the right-wing press and MPs to go 'ahhhhh look universities are taking all your tax money and giving it to paedos'. Already despaired at one comment thread where an English Lit professor replied to their own MP to urge him not to use this to further defund academia - only for loads of fucking rage-before-thought idiots to pile on going "OH YOU MUST THINK IT'S GOOD TO FUND PAEDOPHILES THEN"

Yes, totally agree. It's not like they need an excuse to defend us but the Tories will be delighted to have another stick to beat the arts and humanities with.

[dissolute ocelot]

I saw this yesterday and at first thought it was 'lol guy tried to do an academic paper about wanking to hentai' but as I was going to bed this bled on my twitter feed and I thought fucking hell this guy has has two published magazines dedicated to how much of a pederast he is.

https://twitter.com/madjane_/status/1557295894428413954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1557295894428413954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

Someone in that thread used the phrase "digital ethnography", and I couldn't work out if it was a euphemism for masturbation.

[A Hat Like That]

Academics often get very hung-up on publications, so it's both reassuring and terrifying that this has appeared in what I presume is an actual peer-reviewed journal.

Impact factor of about three.

There's a push towards publishing the peer review comments as well in some areas. This could be fun.

[A Hat Like That]

I think the biggest red flag is calling his magazine Destroyer.

It's no Jane's Ships, is it?

[MrMrs]

Eh the other magazine name is more of a red flag

[idunnosomename]

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