View: https://youtu.be/QFrCHJJqETo?t=16
Dr. Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia and an attorney. He is also the department chairperson. He focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy.
Yesterday, excerpts from the above video, which show him making nuanced arguments against age of consent laws from his philosophical perspective, were shared on social media. These posts were subsequently reposted by feminist and tradcuck Twitter users. Currently, thousands of users have shared the excerpts. Many people have contacted his university demanding that he be fired.
View: https://twitter.com/MeliB42177564/status/1488772480537874439
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View: https://twitter.com/KarenCharter1/status/1488887569517481984
Today, Fredonia University released this statement:
- "SUNY Fredonia is aware of a video posted online involving one of its professors. The views expressed by the professor are reprehensible and do not represent the values of SUNY Fredonia in any way, shape or form. They are solely the professor's views. The matter is being reviewed."
Feminist magazine Reduxx, in a recent article by e-thot Anna Slatz, has sensationalized and misrepresented Kershnar's position on slavery to make it seem if he supports slavery in its historical form, rather than just voluntary slavery contracts.
In 2001, Kershnar wrote a paper criticizing the notion that adult-child sex is necessarily exploitative. In 2015, he wrote a book entitled "Pedophilia and Adult “Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis" in which he criticizes and debunks common arguments against sex between between minors and adults.
“The notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me. I don’t think it’s blanket wrong at any age.” — Dr. Stephen Kershnar
Sex before eight or else it's too late?
The René Guyon Society's motto was 'Sex before 8 or else it's too late'. This was just meant to shock people, I believe, but the sentence does make sense if one doesn't literally interpret 8-years old as the ultimate limit.The more one waits, or has to wait, to start sexual experiences, the more difficult it gets to jump into it. Ideally, people should gain experience in all aspects of life while their brain still has a large part of its neuroplasticity. Later in life, learning any new behavior can be more difficult and awkward. People often feel uncomfortable and give up. Sex, after all, is both a mental and physical activity. That, and the anxiety and loss of self-esteem coming from concerns about performance and attractiveness, makes that people who lose their virginity too late often find it quite difficult to have a normal sexual life afterwards. Some just give up after a few attempts or don't even attempt try to visit prostitutes. Incel forums like this one are full of such stories.
Age of consent laws are not just problematic because they repress the sexuality of adult men, but also because they repress the sexuality of minors themselves. A 13-year old boy who wants to have sex but can't because girls are not attracted to him is out of luck in today's society. Every day, he is surrounded by provocatively dressed girls who won't ever date him. He has to watch his male peers engage in PDA and brag about doing sexual stuff with girls, while he rots in loneliness, at a time when his sex drive is at its peak. This frustration can be psychologically harmful. The early you start an activity, the more normal it becomes and the less likely it is to cause neuroticism.
It is better to lose your virginity as a teen than as a grown man. In fact, a study found that adolescent boys aged 12-14 who had their first-time with an adult woman were signficantly more likely to remember the experience positively than adult men who had their first time with an adult woman.
There is no good reason not to allow teenagers to buy sex. It's much easier for a 13-year old boy to begin seeing prostitutes than it is for a 22-year old virgin who might already have become damaged from years of rejection and frustration.
Many people isolate themselves because they've learned to do so under some kind of constraints. Before they realize it, it's become a hard-to-break habit. Just like someone who stopped exercising for years may find it very difficult to start doing sports again. Now, imagine someone who has never have done any exercise in his childhood and would only try and start doing sports in adulthood. It is still possible of course, but he'd likely feel awkward, maybe ashamed of his body and his performance and of how he compares with others, and he'd probably give up quickly, maybe even before trying.
Modern society has greatly exacerbated the sexual repression and social isolation of males (one can live as an "otaku" for decades, something unimaginable in former times). This is, in my opinion, the worst case of abuse young males suffer in rich countries, and it causes much more psychological damage to than the so-called "child sexual abuse" that the media loves to talk about.
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