“Beginning in the late sixties, Helmut Kentler, one of the most influential sexologists in Germany, placed neglected children in foster homes run by pedophiles. The experiment was authorized and financially supported by the government.” newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
“Kentler was inspired by the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who had argued that the free flow of sexual energy was essential to building a new kind of society…Kentler came to believe that sexual repression was key to understanding the Fascist consciousness.” 
“these foster homes were run by sometimes powerful men who lived alone and who were given this power by academia, research institutions and other pedagogical environments that accepted, supported or even lived out pedophile stances”
“Kentler’s experiment seemed to rest on the idea that some children are fundamentally second class, their outlook so compromised that any kind of love is a gift, a proposition that his colleagues apparently accepted, too.”
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