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Thomas K. Hubbard was forced to "retire" due to pressure from feminazis and death threats. This article is fairly objective, but was published before his "retirement": https://theintercept.com/2020/02/16/academic-freedom-free-speech-ut-austin/ QUOTE: [I]n 30 years of teaching, Hubbard has received no complaints of sexual misconduct. Nor has he ever committed a criminal offense. He is being targeted for speech. Hubbard, an eminent scholar, is best known for his work on pederasty — love and sex between adults and adolescent boys — in antiquity. Most of his work concerns the nerdy depths of classical studies. But not all. One article, published in the journal Thymos and on the syllabus of at least one of his courses, has become a battering ram against him. In “Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn From the Greeks,” Hubbard portrays pederasty in unfailingly glowing terms and suggests that it be a model for thinking about current ages of consent. He believes that the U.S. should bring its laws more in line with teens’ actual sexual activity and with most other countries, where the age of sexual consent generally ranges from 14 to 16 (in Texas, it is 17). He proposes that boys be free to express their “natural and powerful sexual urges,” including with older partners. Yet — just as he neglects to place pederasty in the context of a slave-holding, woman-subjugating society — he dismisses feminist “preoccupation” with legal gender neutrality as “quaint” and says girls need to be “protected” until 17 or 18, because they are “easily pressured” and might get pregnant." UNQUOTE Hubbard's Q&A (now deleted, but maybe archived here): http://web.archive.org/web/20201112030227/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGGrODNSdwudrF1G4uerU2DsRxcSx3DR1Nbn6JOd7ho/edit His CV: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/nlogon/download/3450320/&sa=U The article he wrote that got the feminazis pants in a bunch: Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn From the Greeks Thomas K. Hubbard https://www.ipce.info/sites/ipce.info/files/biblio_attachments/sexual_consent_and_the_adolescent_male_or_what_can_we_learn_from_the_greeks.pdf He was a PVF, but he was on our side. Now he has been effectively silenced. As usual... M. |