Aella is less of a sex researcher and more of a “professional take-haver” in that she gets the most engagement for her opinions that have nothing to do with any sort of disciplined research. For example she seems pretty confident that using AI to create CSAM is a solution to the creation of real CSAM(1). Aside from it being incredibly stupid, there is no possible way for that assertion to be backed up by any research she could have done outside of her own thoughts.<p>Also it is a tad weird to conflate “the internet” with a subset of EA folks and libertarians, so this headline is more like<p>The Internet’s* Favorite Sex Researcher *<p>* LessWrong forums posters<p>* Poster<p>(1)<a href="https://reduxx.info/opinion-porn-pedophiles-and-a-combination-of-both/" rel="nofollow">https://reduxx.info/opinion-porn-pedophiles-and-a-combinatio...</a>