this is a rough one i'm not gonna lie hi my name is sydney welcome back to hell and as per usual before we launch in today's video is sponsored by establish titles and will probably be the only funny part of this video now something that has captured the attention of basically everybody over the last little while is the treatment of children so much so that we keep talking about drag queens and whether or not they should be around said children this is not a place i ever thought we'd be but here we are nonetheless some
of what we're seeing now doesn't feel unprecedented but the reality is that the outward experimentation on putting people is nothing new exposing them to inappropriate ideas and people is nothing new wow comforting history is often great for giving us a road map of what not to do and when we ignore that we end up with this copyrighted music the music here is copyrighted so i am going to sing this person is doing a dance look at me dancing i'm gonna take the money from the little child oh yes that is what i'm doing as i'm
dancing oh look money for more children yes dance dances i am a drag queen ah thanks i hate it in the past i've talked about people like john money the father of modern gender theory and a fan of the playground i've discussed some of his associates his experiments and some of the newer examples we have of attempts to mainstream fans of the playground but in recent weeks i came across a story that even i hadn't heard about before a story that continued from the late 1960s to the early 2000s and it's terrible so that's what
we're going to talk about today helmut kentler and his kentler experiment the man who placed straight children in the homes of known fans of the playground and did so with the approval of the government i will note that the discovery of the information in this case is fairly recent so information is still coming to light although this being said it is largely accepted that the names places and people concerned in this story um have been largely lost forgotten redacted hidden hidden so excuse me if i don't get to everything there's not a lot of information
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taking place in germany caseworkers assessed marco and his situation they concluded that his mother couldn't give him the emotional attention he required she was struggling to handle parenthood on her own since his father left she sent marco and his brother to daycare in dirty clothes and often left them alone for hours caseworkers decided that the boy would be better off in a foster home with a family-like atmosphere but really that isn't quite what he got actually that isn't what any of the children in the kentler experiment got trauma they got trauma because these children were
not placed in loving foster homes instead they found themselves caught in the middle of a pseudo-scientific state-funded experiment that saw them placed in homes with fans of the playground all at the behest of a man named helmut kentler which i am probably butchering sorry about that an influential sexologist and fellow fan of the playground where have we heard that before and why are they always sexologists actually don't answer that i also feel like i need a new set of words to describe these people kid twiddler kiddler i don't know feel free to leave me some
suggestions at five years old marco was assigned to live with a 47 year old man named fritz henkel also probably going to butcher this name in documents he's often referred to as fritz h henkel's foster home ran for 30 years from 1973 until it closed in 2003 he received a government allowance during this time a teacher once noted that henkel was always looking for contact with boys around 1979 almost a full decade before marco was placed in his home a caseworker observed that henkel appeared to be in a homosexual relationship with one of his foster
sons in the time henkel operated his foster home there were several very strong signals that authorities should have noticed but ultimately ignored that is a trend you're going to notice throughout this video just a heads up there was a report from my psychologist about abuse proof of completed legal proceedings against him regarding child abduction and child abuse a critical assessment of his home by the health office and an autopsy after the unexplained death of a child in henkel's custody in 2003. at this time after the death it was noted that henkel was looking to take
in another child not questionable timing at all each time someone attempted to look into henkel kenzler would step in on his behalf after all he was considered the country's foremost authority on sexual education and he vouched for henkel over and over during the span of their relationship in total henkel fostered 10 children two of which marco and sven have come forward to publicly discuss their experiences i spoke to two of his victims to protect their right to anonymity they'll be named only as sven and marco our daily lives were dominated by instructions we were shielded
from the outside world like a sect most of the time we faced violence if we wanted to go out or meet someone else we were intimidated and told these people were bad that we should have nothing to do with them if we wanted to go anyway we were forbidden every day it was mental and physical mistreatment and we're only realizing this now we were forced to do things we wouldn't normally do because we were threatened that was our life the worse the treatment the more you felt this person was important to you every day with
this man was a fight for survival and a fight to preserve yourself these two men impressively report of opaque and incomprehensible procedures massive experiences of violence and abuse in many instances and a strong influence of helmut kensler on the foster home they also vividly describe their powerlessness and helplessness above all because the responsible youth welfare office did not notice them at all in their suffering ultimately their stories reveal a massive failure of the public welfare services for children and youth another young man also came forward reporting he'd been placed in a foster home run by
the berlin district office in the 1980s although the man has not been named and is not cited by media sources he is mentioned in a report by the university of hildesheim which i'm also probably butchering the name of the author's notes that while they can't prove that kentler was active in this home like he was in other cases and in other foster homes the foster father in this situation was aware of kentler and his positions on sexual education in the context of residential care the young man spoke about his foster father's sexual transgressions and abuse
and inappropriate child material he found in his home as a youth the man wrote letters to the berlin district office reporting his living conditions he didn't get any response it was only through his massive rebellion as it's written and putting pressure on his foster father that he was able to free himself from the situation at all now to a normal person's ears all of this sounds horrific why would anyone place a child knowingly in the care of a known fan of the playground according to the university of hildesheim report kenzler knew that some of these
foster fathers had been convicted of sexual contact with pudding people perhaps a better question is if the state was aware of this if almost everybody was aware that some of these people had convictions if it was well known that sexual relations and sexual contact was built into the framework of kentler's plan why was this allowed to go on why was it kept up and why did it go on for so long all of this makes me so mad you know i guess the thing is that there isn't any good reason from all the reading i've
done there isn't any good reason but it is very clear and it is evident that there was a massive failure on the part of the state to protect these children just like we are seeing a huge failure now to protect children not only from terrible and harmful ideologies but developmentally inappropriate acts and content the sad fact of the matter is the wood chipper enthusiasts walk among us more than we realize stay away from the pudding people thank you now to better understand the kentler experiment and what we ourselves can expect in the future i think
it's important to take a look at the history that was going on at the time i will note importantly that there was a lot going on in post-world war ii germany most of which is still relevant to this discussion but i can't get into it because unfortunately youtube hates the sharing of information so with that being said on a historical front what i talk about here is extremely relevant but is by no means the entire picture okay okay terrific what she's saying is there's a lot to be said about the nuts helmet kenzler the man
behind this experiment was on a quest of sorts to not only understand but fix society's sexual repression that he believes led to the actions of germany during world war ii in fact he once noted that sexual liberation was the best way to prevent another auschwitz this was a sentiment shared and echoed by other scholars at the time kenzler among others believed that postwar germany was stifled this time was marked by an intense preoccupation with sexual oppression as if decorum could solve the nation's moral crisis and cleanse it of guilt obviously there's a lot more to
kentler and his psychology than this but again we can't get into that in this video so i will link some things in the description box i will say he had big time daddy issues but that's probably evident in the 1970s kenzler wrote a popular book for parents who wanted to teach their pudding people about sex because you know that's totally normal he eventually became a professor of education at hanover university where he remained until his retirement in 1996. he was a popular figure with the media and politicians who often looked to him for expertise on
a personal front and despite it being very very very very very very frowned upon he came out as a gay man in the 1960s he also had three adopted sons and one foster son in 1970 german parliamentarians tasked with reforming criminal law were lobbied by prominent sexologists psychologists and sociologists to decriminalize attraction to children one of these people was helmut kentler he along with fellow sexologist bokmar sigish argued that children would not suffer from inappropriate relations with adults and those relations should not be punished they claimed it was a crime without a victim side note
sigish like kentler also had some really bizarre ideas i will note here that he published research suggesting that exposing children to inappropriate material was harmless it's not he coined the term petrosexual for individuals who want to have relations with pudding people but do not act on it this might sound familiar to you because it's actually a consistent modern day talking point for many institutions and groups that support fans of the playground non-offenders like to describe themselves as virtuous wood chipper enthusiasts sigas also coined the term cis for cisgender you know what trans activists like to
call us without our consent to say that we identify with our birth sex i hate it here in 1991 siger said speaking of cis-sexuals if there are transsexuals logically there must be cis sexuals one is not to be thought without the other at all i have allowed myself to introduce the terms cis sexualism cis sexual cisgender etc anyway yeah there you go that was started by a predator defender the more you know as most of you are likely aware the 1960s and 70s gave way to the sexual revolution that took place in countries all around
the world and germany was no exception on one hand social advancements were being made when it came to sexual liberties but on the other hand a dark narrative was emerging attitudes towards the sexual nature of putting people was thrust into the conversation and for whatever reason this time was punctuated by writers and scholars suggesting that not repressing the sexuality of children was the way forward having a normal one according to the new yorker in the late 60s educators in more than 30 german cities and towns began establishing experimental daycare centers where children were encouraged to
be naked and to explore one another's bodies the country's green party while today is associated with environmental policies was once one of the biggest advocates for men with tendencies towards putting people in fact members of the party openly advocated for abolishing the age of consent between adults and children one article i read went as far as to say that for a period of time in the mid-1980s it practically served as the parliamentary arm of the fans of the playground movement green's member and european parliamentarian daniel cohen bendy described in his 1975 autobiographical book intimate experiences
with children when he was a teacher at a frankfurt kindergarten quote you know a child's sexuality is a fantastic thing you have to be honest and sincere with very young kids it isn't the same as it is with a four to six year old when a little five-year-old girl starts undressing it's great because it's a game it's an incredibly erotic game radio then as conventional wisdom towards children was abandoned some social attitudes changed rapidly and kentler saw an opportunity to test his own ideas in the mid-1960s canceler was asked to lead the department of social
education at the pedagogical center an international research institute in berlin established by mayor and future chancellor willie brandt the center was funded and supervised by the berlin senate it was also the main coordinating institution of kentler's scheme while conducting research into runaways and child prostitutes so to speak kenzler came across a 13 year old boy named ulrich who was in kentler's words the most sought after child in the area child of the night i don't know how to get around saying worker of physical relations so i'm just i'm just gonna bleep it out from here
the boy told him that in exchange for physical relations a man named mother winter would feed these young male pro and do their laundry i said to myself if the pros call this man mother he can't be bad canceler wrote ulrich's advantage was that he was handsome and he enjoyed sex so he could give something back to men who looked after him this exchange sparked an idea for kentler and obviously not a good one first he found several fans of the playground in the area and helps them set up foster homes he said the men
would take care of street boys in return for sexual consideration kentuck's belief was that the fans of the playground would be motivated to invest in their feeble-minded foster sons as kantler referred to them because they were so in love with them he said that the bond would benefit the boys in 1980 he told a german magazine that fans of the playground offered neglected children a possibility of therapy yeah the possibility to be in therapy i do not believe for a second that this guy bought his own con he then somehow got the senate to sign
off on his plan he was aware that at the time the senate was looking for solutions to its existing societal problems this was a weird way to solve them most importantly and i think this must be noted sexual relations with minors under the age of 14 was illegal in the federal republic of germany kenzler knew this he was careful not to even publish his findings until the statute of limitations had expired many have speculated this is so he was free of potential prosecution and when he did eventually go public he said that his experiment was
overwhelmingly successful wow where have we heard that before you know kentler and money probably should have just dated at this stage destroying the lives of boys a success story in addition to the fact that the senate weren't actually solving any societal issues kentler who we now know is not a good person and was not a good person knew very well what was going to be happening behind closed doors like i said before it was built into the framework of his experiment of course marco and the other boys were subject to mistreatment and abuse marco in
an interview with the new yorker said that he once slept with a knife under his pillow to ward off henkel if sven's bedroom door was open and he wasn't there marco knew what was happening but the two boys never talked about what henku did to them it was an absolutely taboo subject marco said i know i'm getting a little heated and this video isn't as funny as usual so sorry about that but i want to highlight that kentler never gave these children an opportunity to be saved he was so determined to continue his experiment that
he even blocked marco's parents from not only contacting their child but trying to get him back between henkel coaching marco to say his parents were abusive bad people and he didn't want a relationship with them kenzler also wrote a letter to the judge arguing that for the best interest of the child contact between marco and his family should be suspended for two years in addition henkel was overbearing any attempt anyone made to get marco on his own to understand his true feelings and situation was overshadowed by henkel literally standing over him the reality is these
children never could have accessed any true help or assistance because kenzler made sure that they couldn't in 1988 in a report commissioned by the berlin senate kentler said that there was no need to worry that children would be harmed by sexual contact with caretakers as long as the interaction was not forced the consequences can be very positive especially when the sexual relationship can be characterized as mutual love he believed this he stood by all of this until his adopted son took his own life in 1991. some years earlier kentzler had written to a friend saying
that he and his 26 year old son were part of a very fulfilling love story that had lasted 13 years and still felt fresh if you can do maths that means that the child was 13 when it started given everything we know about our buddy kentler that sounds about right of course kentler attributed the death of this young man to his mother abusing him but you know like yeah probably not it was at this point kentler read a paper by a hungarian psychoanalyst who basically said that having sexual relations with putting people is not okay
and that these relationships are exploitative destructive and ultimately harm the pudding person and then kentler was like oh wow why didn't i think of this so he destroys the lives of countless young men including his own son and then reads a paper by somebody else and he thinks yeah now i'm molesting kids that's probably a bad idea it's worth reiterating that even after his revelation kentler continued to defend henkel and likely other foster fathers in his experiment or at least that's my speculation but he also in a way continue to defend his own behavior he
did a lecture in 1995 where he detailed giving naked massages to his foster son now this case from top to bottom is egregious but perhaps the salt in the wound comes from the fact that so much information cannot be accessed has been lost or has been redacted the university of hildsheim report notes that the senate also ran foster homes or shared flats for young berliners with fans of the playground in other parts of west germany they explained that there were about a thousand unsorted files in the basement of a government building that they had been
unable to read no names were revealed but the authors said that these foster homes were run by sometimes powerful men who lived alone who were given this power by academia research institutions and other pedagogical environments that accepted supported or even lived out fans of the playground stances the report concludes that some senate actors had been part of this network while others had merely tolerated the foster homes because icons of educational reform policies supported such arrangements the reality is that countless lives were destroyed because of this marco's account of his experiences are harrowing and when it
came to the crunch sven and marco when they tried to seek damages were offered only 10 000 euros for their suffering the berlin senate is 100 involved the berlin senate initiated it and then tolerated it it's already been admitted verbally but not legally from the very beginning the only thing that mattered to them was how to keep the problem small then criminal charges were put forward we filed charges and the senate kept in touch with us since then there has been no contact with the senate it's impossible to build up such an organization on this
scale without state help we expect justice our lives have been destroyed we are unable to work and we have become aware that we are just a pile of misery we were put in this situation by the government deliberately it was not an accident as we thought until now it is a matter of course that the senate will make amends the senate has offered us 10 000 euros in return for us taking no further action against it the names of those responsible and the consequences for these people are still missing as long as it stays like
that things are not over there is obviously a much wider discussion to be had here about scholars and academics like kentler sigush and john money and the like who have carved out a long-lasting ideology that persists to this day and continues to gain institutional popularity we are currently engaged in an all-out war about whether or not children should or shouldn't be exposed to developmentally inappropriate content ideas and ideologies pro fan of the playground institutions like prosthesia and before you act are propped up by individuals who work for major think tanks and institutions for the month
of june i don't even know why this is we continually engage in a debate about whether or not young children should be exposed to men who are dressed as women who are dancing provocatively and often don't have on a tremendous amount of clothes while those children often hand them dollar bills or pieces of money it is insanity but honestly none of this should be shocking at all when you consider the things that we did to children in the past from which apparently we have learned nothing and the worst part about it is that it was
hidden for so long it is my belief that there will always be people who attempt to push the boundaries of what is right and wrong when it comes to putting people it could be argued that in the past people didn't know any better but we certainly know better now kenzler and many of his fellow scholars believed that stopping the sexual repression of children would fix society they were wrong today the birdsong looks a little different it comes in the form of people arguing that children can and should be exposed to adult content drag queens gender
ideology and so on and so forth they argue that it's good for kids that it helps them understand themselves that it helps them be more tolerant kenzler made this same argument and he was wrong as far as these modern arguments go i will let you draw your own conclusions about whether or not they also are wrong children were hurt in the past because adults got it very very very wrong and my hope is that going forward we can start pushing to make sure that we get it right now on that happy note this is just
a reminder to check out established titles using the link in the description when you use my code you'll get 10 off your entire purchase now i open the floor to all of you what do you all think have you heard of this story before of the kentler experiment what do you make of all the things that happened what do you think of this bizarre thing where countless academics and scholars advocated for fans of the playground behavior in the past do you think that there is a correlation to what we're seeing now do you think that
what we're doing to children now is totally inappropriate like it was in days gone by and what do you generally make of this situation overall as always if you liked the video hit subscribe the thumbs up button if you want to leave a comment free to do so just be respectful about it and i will see you guys next time [Music]
