This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a

journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an ordinary

person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested

in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought

and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.

I'm interested in people who make me think.

To me, one of the defining characteristics of my profession, academia, is cowardice.

Professors who don't have tenure are afraid to say anything out of line for fear of losing their

career. Professors who do have tenure are afraid of each other, they're also afraid of the students.

Nearly everyone on a college campus lives in constant fear of being called a racist or a sexist or a rapist.

Many political ideas that have been standard or even mainstream in the past are now considered to be part of a broader evil worldview that the United States did away with about 50 years ago.

So anyone who puts forward an idea that runs counter to the dominant left liberal discourse on college campuses is considered

to be a person of the evil past. And so there is a huge swath of ideas that have been considered

in other times and places to be perfectly legitimate that are taboo. But there is one topic that is more taboo than any other. It's a topic that can't be

raised in any context in American society, including in a college classroom. That topic is the

relationship between sexuality and children. There is one professor, though, who is willing to break that taboo,

and is not only willing to discuss that relationship between children and sexuality,

but also to show the tremendous damage that the taboo and the enforcement of the taboo

has done to real people.

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