My latest for @4WPub: a Norwegian trans-identified professor of sexology, together with their spouse, advocate transitioning children.
The department recently required students to don fetish gear, and a sexology group they founded celebrates "BDSM Day."
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Tonje Kristin Jensen, a student at @AgderUniversity, told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation that she decided to forego a study trip in after being told of a required dress code that included fetish gear on the theme of “lacquer and rubber" and "girls can not wear denim."
The university trip was planned for a fetish club called Cat People in Oslo.
On its Facebook page, the club features several sexualized photos of women in bondage.
Trans-identified ♂️ Professor Emerit Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, along with spouse and co-professor Elsa Almås, have been course coordinators and “central to the implementation of the study programme,” at University of Agder, according to its website.
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The sexology program at Agder instructs students on "trans-sexuality, transvestism, and other variations of gender identity" alongside sadomasochism and fetishism.
In a TED talk, Prof. Benestad talks about dressing “like a girl” in secret as a child and sighs, declaring, “It felt so fine.”
Benestad also compares erotic crossdressing to the struggles of Indigenous people.
Benestad's spouse / co-professor, Elsa Almås, founded the Norwegian Association for Clinical Sexology (NFKS).
A Facebook post by NFKS celebrated “world BDSM day,” which it claims falls on July 24 as a play on 24/7, “a type of BDSM game where you are in the roles all the time.”
Almås is also a member of the Gender Dysphoria Affirmative Working Group [GDA], an organization that campaigns for the social and medical transitioning of minors.
On its official website, the GDA quotes pornographer and trans-identified ♂️ Zinnia Jones.
gdaworkinggroup.com
In 2017, Almås and Benestad gave a presentation on autogynephilia arguing "it should be interpreted not as a paraphilia... but as a learned erotic variation that is natural in persons who experience the erotic qualities of womens'/mens' garments."
In 2018, WHO removed Fetishism, Transvestic Fetishism and Sadomasochism as psychiatric diagnoses in response to lobbying by Norwegian group FRI, in direct contradiction with research that has consistently correlated sadism with violence, including homicide
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