A Russian magazine editor claims his publisher demanded he censor a book that mentions homosexuality in animals because it violates the country’s “LGBT propaganda” law.

Viktor Kovylin, editor of the scientific journal Batrachospermum, wrote on Telegram that his publisher told him the descriptions of same-sex behavior in a book on animal sexual behavior were against the law because they did not express “disgust or criticism” for the acts.

“Apparently, neutral scientific descriptions of homosexual behavior, without disgust or criticism, now fall under the category of propaganda for non-traditional relationships!” Kovylin wrote on Telegram, according to a translation.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Most of fascism has always been rooted in male sexual insecurity, this has been studied over and over, and exploited over and over.

    Steve Bannon wrote in depth about how his tactic for radicalizing the country was to send agents into games like World of Warcraft and other places where lonely, disaffected young men hang out a lot, guys who obviously don’t have a lot of social experience because they’re gaming, and get them to start blaming their lack of success and sex on immigrants, leftists, feminism and progressive ideas. They were doing this back when the internet was new and we all still thought “incels” were a passing, fringe trend not worth addressing.

    Moot, the founder of 4chan met with Jeffrey Epstein a day before he made the board /pol, which became the central radicalizing hangout for, you guessed it, lonely male gamers and nerds who were ready to blame their feelings on women, people of color and progressives instead of you know… the fact that they have thousands of hours in Hearts of Iron IV and then spend their remaining time on /pol.

    It’s been a tactic for raising armies since the dawn of time. Get all the sexually frustrated young men together and say “THAT CASTLE OVER THERE IS WHY YOU GOT NO PUSSY, GO SACK 'EM” and it works amazingly well.

    Also, they capitalize on sexual hangups to a massive degree, especially fear/attraction to men of other races. There’s a reason why “interracial cuckolding” became a huuuuge popular category of porn at the same time when these guys were writing manifestos about how we need to bring back segregation so women don’t “lose control” around black men and how we need to defend against “impurities in the bloodlines” and how other men’s semen stays inside a woman and the potency of black male semen and other homoeroticism. It’s an entire roleplay world that would be hilarious if it didn’t turn into a huge movement.

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      Quite interesting. I have to admit I was a long time incel myself and at the time these ideas would’ve resonated with me as well. Not hate on gay and trans people but on immigrants since they seemed to be more successful with women than me.