Short Suck #22 - The Kentler Experiment: That One Time Germany Intentionally Hired Pedos To Be Foster Parents

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today I'm sharing a wild story that I'm surprised isn't much more known - that one time Germany intentionally hired known pedophiles to be the foster parents of unsuspecting little boys, thinking that these fosters parents would care more for the boys since they were more invested in them.... because they were having sex with them. Yep. This really happened. Recently. It began in the 1970s, and continued throughout the 1990s. How???

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Time Sucks Short Sucks.
0:03.7	I'm Dan Cummins, and today I will be talking about a German academic
0:07.2	who led one of the most shocking, vile post-World War II studies I've ever read about, Helmut Kentler.
0:13.8	Warning, this episode will read like I am making this up.
0:17.4	It is that absurd.
0:18.9	Unfortunately, I'm not.
0:20.3	There will only ever be one Richard Bert.
0:22.5	This is sadly all too true. In the 1960s to the 1990s, Kettler was a renowned psychologist, sexologist,
0:31.3	scholar of anti-fascism, professor of social education, and outspoken proponent of the sexual
0:36.9	liberation movement and reproductive
0:38.5	rights for women. He was doing a lot of good work in that area. He was a prominent figure in both
0:45.1	German academia and politics and was once described as the nation's chief authority on questions
0:50.7	of sexual education. Of the expansive body of work, the psychologist produced his crowning and most disturbing
0:57.5	by leaps and bound scientific achievement.
1:01.1	And the topic of today's insane episode, and achievement is probably not the right word,
1:05.5	was a decades-long experiment where he placed neglected and orphaned boys in the foster
1:10.4	care of known pedophiles.
1:13.5	And he seemed to truly believe that any sexual abuse they suffered, as long as it wasn't violent,
1:19.1	as long as it wasn't physically forced upon them, would be good for them.
1:22.9	And this was not an underground or illegal operation.
1:26.1	It wasn't even a secret.
1:27.4	It was a fully public, entirely government-funded experience. This was not an underground or illegal operation. It wasn't even a secret.
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