Karl Andersson (publisher)

Karl Andersson is a Swedish researcher and former journalist.[1][2][3][4] He founded and edited the Destroyer magazine from 2006 to 2010.[1][2] He has served as the editor in chief of Straight, Sweden's first glossy magazine for gay men.[2][5] He is the author of Impossibly Cute Boys (2024).[6]

Career

Anderson founded the biannual Destroyer magazine in 2006, which he published until its last issue in 2010. He wrote a book about his management of the publication, titled Gay Man's Worst Friend: The Story of Destroyer Magazine.[1][2][7][8] In 2022, he published "Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan" in Sage's Qualitative Research journal. The paper was retracted from the journal amid a Twitter controversy.[9][10] In 2024, he published Impossibly Cute Boys.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Eternal Youth". Out. Archived from the original on January 22, 2025. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  2. ^ a b c d Hafkamp, Hans (2012). "The Short But Turbulent History Of 'Destroyer' Magazine". Gay News. ISSN 2214-7640. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  3. ^ "Som av en händelse". Expressen (in Swedish). 2012-03-21. Archived from the original on August 25, 2022. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  4. ^ Batty, David (2022-08-11). "University investigates PhD student's paper on masturbating to comics of 'young boys'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  5. ^ "Gay i veckan". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 1999-10-29. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  6. ^ a b "Masturbation paper researcher attacks 'groupthink' backlash". Times Higher Education. 2024-08-29. Archived from the original on July 26, 2025. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  7. ^ "Scandalized Scandinavians". The Guide. August 2006. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013.
  8. ^ Hafkamp, Hans (2012). "De korte maar turbulente geschiedenis van het tijdschrift Destroyer- Gay News ®". Gay News (in Dutch). ISSN 2214-7640. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  9. ^ "Retraction of masturbation study 'troubling for free speech'". Times Higher Education (THE). 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  10. ^ Inge, Sophie (2022-08-23). "Controversial masturbation study officially retracted from journal". Research Professional News. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
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