A SUNY Fredonia professor is “being assigned to duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students” as an investigation continues following his comments on adult-child sex.
BREAKING: Professor Stephen Kershnar will not hold class, effective immediately, as the investigation into comments he has made continues. @WKBW https://t.co/ou7sPiQ9ly
— Natalie Fahmy (@NatalieFahmy) February 3, 2022
In a video on the “Brain in a Vat” YouTube channel titled “Sexual Taboos” from January 30, 2022 Kershnar spoke with the hosts for about an hour. At the start of the video a host asks Kershnar if he would like to start with a “thought experiment” which Kershnar responds to with the following:
“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held view, is there’s something deeply wrong about this and it’s wrong independent of it being criminalized. It’s not obvious to me that it’s 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 principals of morality,” said Kershnar.
In a video on the Unregistered Podcast YouTube channel titled “Unregistered 142: Stephen Kershnar” from December 5, 2020 Kershnar discusses similar topics with the host for about two hours.
In a statement to 7 News, YouTube has pulled the video due to, “violating YouTube’s child safety policy.”