Why are academics defending pedophilia?
A professor at one of the US’s top universities identifies ‘benefits’ for children in having sex with adults
Dominic Green
Dominic Green
January 28, 2019
12:09 PM
‘There is a place in academe for scholarship that responsibly weighs the benefits and costs to children of sex with adults,’ says Lisa Ruddick, professor of English at the University of Chicago. Yes, you did read that right. A professor at one of the US’s top universities identifies ‘benefits’ for children in having sex with adults. She also thinks that ‘academe’, which is French for people like her, is the place to do it.
Ruddick was prompted to these lofty reflections by a 2005 article in the journal ELH: English Literary History by Kevin Ohi. Kevin Ohi is now a professor at Boston College, specializing in ‘queer theory, aestheticism and decadence.’ His books include Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child, and his webpage says he also enjoys ‘solitude’ and ‘narrative perspective and desire’. I hope he remembers to clear his history and wipe down his keyboard afterwards.
https://spectator.us/academics-defending-pedophilia/
