More recently, Mr Andersson has chronicled his interest in sexually suggestive literature featuring teenage boys on his YouTube channel.

Manchester may face questions over why its School of Arts, Languages and Cultures chose to fund Mr Andersson’s PhD, focusing on “how fans of subcultural comics in Japan experience desire and think about sexual identities”, and whether it had vetted his previous work. It has now been removed from the journal’s website.Īlongside scrutiny of any ethics approval associated with the paper and where the research was conducted – possessing fictional images of minors in a pornographic context is banned in the UK but some countries have different rules – scholars have complained that “masturbating to images of young boys and passing it off as scholarship normalises paedophilia”. The institution and the Sage journal Qualitative Research are investigating how Karl Andersson was able to publish an article subtitled “Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”, reflecting on a three-month period during which he “masturbated only” to pictures found in the manga comic genre that depicted sexual encounters involving young boys.

The University of Manchester is facing questions over its funding of a PhD student who published a journal paper on masturbating to Japanese comics after it emerged that he has faced controversy for publishing a magazine featuring sexually suggestive images of teenage boys.

Boys pics from the destroyer magazine