Student masturbating to 'disturbing' comics of young boys for research sparks outrage
dailystar.co.ukstudent has sparked outrage after he revealed that he masturbated to Japanese comics featuring young boys in the name of research.
Karl Andersson described how he pleasured himself for three months to explore subcultural Japanese comics at the University of Manchester.But the student is now under investigation for the disturbing revelation that can be found in his research paper. READ MORE Depraved teen, 19, crept into women's rooms, stole their bras and masturbated over them Karl says he masturbated to the same topic and referred to it as his "research participants" and made notes after each session.He commented: "I happened to live alone during this experiment, and I had newly become single after a long relationship - these factors probably contributed to my willingness and eagerness to explore this method." According to his thesis, the material named shota, is a genre of erotic comics that includes "young boy characters in a cute or, most often, sexually explicit way." The University of Manchester have confirmed that they have received "significant complaints" that they were "taking very seriously".Visual anthropologist Karl added that he hit a wall while conducting interviews with participants as he found it difficult to ask certain questions.He has published the thesis called 'I am not alone - we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan' in the Journal of Qualitative Research.He said that he had recently gone through a break up which probably contributed to his "eagerness to explore this method."The research stated: "For a period of three months, I would masturbate only to shota comics.
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