State University of New York at Fredonia Professor Stephen Kershnar is under investigation by school after videos surfaced of him defending having sex with children, including babies.
In an email to students, the university said that Kershnar has been“assigned duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students.”
BREAKING: Stephen Kershnar has been “assigned duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students” pic.twitter.com/83KHE9Bts4
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 3, 2022
In a video posted by the popular Twitter account “Libs of Tik Tok,” Kershnar said that he isn’t sure that it is morally wrong to have sex with one year old babies.
“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a twelve-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant…” Kershnar says in the video. “A very standard, very widely held view that there’s something deeply wrong about this, and it’s wrong independent of it being criminalized.”
“It’s not obvious to me that is in fact wrong. I think this is a mistake, and I think that exploring why it’s a mistake will tell us not only things about adult-child sex and statutory rape, but also about fundamental principles of morality,” the creepy professor continued.
“It’s not obvious to me that is in fact wrong,” he continued. “The notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old, is not quite obvious to me.”
🚨🚨🚨 Professor says an adult wanting to have sex with a kid is accepted as being wrong but “it’s not obvious to me that it is in fact wrong” pic.twitter.com/ygC5nuHDNa
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022
It just keeps getting worse! @FredoniaU this guy needs to be fired ASAP pic.twitter.com/mgOi1spSxt
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022
Kershnar said of adults raping children, “I don’t think it’s blanket wrong at any age.”
While the university condemned the comments made by their professor, it is unlikely that they were a surprise to them.
Campus Reform reports:
His university bio labels him a “distinguished” professor who focuses on “applied ethics and political philosophy” who has written extensively on matters of “abortion, adult-child sex, hell, most valuable player, pornography, punishment, sexual fantasies, slavery, and torture.”
In 2001, he wrote a paper titled, “The moral status of harmless adult-child sex” in which he “reject[s]” the notion that nonconsensual adult-child sex is immoral.
Kershnar also published a book available on Amazon in 2017, titled Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis. In the book, he compares raping children to obese people having sex.
“By analogy, many people find it disgusting to view images of obese people having sex, but it is hard to see what is morally undesirable about such sex. Here the judgment is aesthetic. This book looks at the moral status of such adult-child sex,” Kershnar wrote. “In particular, it explores whether those who engage in adult-child sex have a disease, act wrongly, or are vicious. In addition, it looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses.”
