UT Austin Professor Under Fire for Defending Sex with Underage Boys

BREITBART ^ | January 10, 2020 | Tom Ciccotta

[Morgana]

Professor Thomas Hubbard of the University of Texas at Austin has come under fire from members of the community for his scholarly writing on the relationship between men and teenage boys. Some members of the community have even begun calling for Hubbard’s termination.

According to a report by The College Fix, UT Austin Professor Thomas Hubbard has come under fire for a series of scholarly pieces that have defended relationships between older men and teenage boys.

In December, the Dallas Morning News published an editorial entitled “A UT professor ‘researches’ pederasty. Why are we paying for it?” which focused on Hubbard’s research. “Pederasty” refers to sexual relationships between adult men and pubescent or adolescent boys. Such relationships are considered child sexual abuse or statutory rape in most of the modern world.

In one passage from Hubbard’s published research, the classics professor went as far as to argue that pederastic relationships were beneficial to young men in Ancient Greece.

In Ancient Greece, “where age-discrepant relationships are commonplace and positively reinforced, they cause little or no long-term harm to the younger partner and often confer great benefit,” Hubbard wrote.

Hubbard claims that he does not hold a radical position on age of consent laws. In an interview, he claimed that he has advocated for a softening of America’s age of consent laws, but only to match those of most European states.

[GOPJ]

The injury that sexual assault causes to a child is immeasurable. Those who excuse it, apologize for it, or promote it are as dangerous, reckless, and uncomprehending as Typhoid Mary Marvel--maybe more so.

You're right on this issue.

[GOPJ]

I suspect there’s a connection between societies that accept aberrant forms of sexuality and women deciding NOT to have children.