A university professor (62), who taught logic, over a twenty year period called over a thousand of his female students to his office, where he would beguile them with logic into allowing him to fondle their breasts.
He used the same argument each time, and only recently did a student manage to see through it, resulting in his arrest.
His technique was bizarre, but highly logical:
First the professor would call his chosen students to his office, for a lesson in logic:
“I can touch you without laying so much as a finger on you” he would say.
The perplexed students would naturally tend to respond “Impossible.”
If they did, he would follow through with “If I can’t do it, I’ll give you ¥1,000.”
If the student agreed to the “wager”, he would immediately pull out his wallet, hand them a ¥1,000 note, and then begin brazenly fondling their breasts.
Those students who complained of sexual harassment or worse, he would silence with the following line of argument: “As you in fact gave verbal assent to the contract and accepted the ¥1,000 fee, the contract is complete. It’s meaningless to try to take this to court.”
He continued this same tactic for some 20 years without issue, and his victims are thought to number over a thousand. None it seems could overcome his logical arguments, or possessed knowledge of the fact that illegal contracts are unenforceable.
Only recently it seems did a student actually bring this to the attention of the proper authorities; he was soon arrested on charges of indecent assault.
Police are scathing, and are look at adding as many charges as they possibly can: “He abused his knowledge of logic to undertake this dastardly scheme.”
Via (the very dubious) Kyoko.
This unfortunate career of minor infamy certainly place the professor’s reputation in the gutter, but we must also wonder at either the intelligence, or the virtues of his student victims.
Buying his line says little about their wits, whilst settling for a bargain basement groper’s fee of 1,000 also says even less about them…
Science!
Seconded.
ITS A TRAP!
Everyday is a fine day for science!
Well, that’s pretty dumb. I’d say the students are at fault here for letting themselves be touched, I mean, they’re UNIVERSITY (adults in japan?)students, not high school/middle/kindergarden, they’ve got no excuse for their dumbness or consentment.
Although yeah, sick old man should be punished for the groping.
Most university students in japan are about as mature as high school students in western countries.
Of course, you’d know.
The victims are probably some innocent student
by hearing word “touch” and “body”, most women can figure out what’s his intention
Or, you know, maybe they were scared by it and just wanted to forget?
Most girls don’t want to go screaming about it if they were just assulted. If they were in uni, even more reason, as that sort of thing on one’s record can interupt or ruin your studies.
….Anyone can see through that!
Were the students sleeping through his classes or something?!
He probably used his logic to put them to sleep, then, well, you can guess what comes next.
1000yen * 1000 pairs of boobs = 1,000,000yen.
Thats 7,713.668 GBP or 11,185.8874 USD for 20 years of boob fondling. also of note, 20 years is about 7,304 days, so thats basicly one girl a week.
Value for money? You decide.
Most people will spend more than 1000 yen on coffee within the span of a week or less.
Not to mention, just being able to claim to have fondled that large a number of breasts is quite a thing. And I imagine he only picked out students that seemed to be worth it.
I think its much more likly he picked out the stupid ones.
You’d think he’d get bored of it eventually.
How do you get bored of breasts? Especially after only 20?
20 years
Costs you about that much for a boob grab at a strip club table dance.
I spend a lot more money on wine each day lol.
Got to love the teaching job really. With knowledge you can easily be superior to others.
Crafty. Mindfuckery is awesome.
The students dumb enough to fall for it are the ones who take the bet without realizing there’s ways to touch somebody without using your fingers. >_>
That’s exactly what I thought LOL
What about your toes?
Just wait for it:
I can make you find me innocent without laying so much as a finger on you.
smart professor teach lesson to dumb university student….
considering that the number has reach thousands over,
its easy to tell that none of the student in the past 20years know nuts about how contract works…
good job professor~~~
Fondling breasts has always been rocket science. All porn stars graduated on this subject and are highly educated without exception.
I think they thought that if they go to police or whatever, the professor will tell the police about the “contract” and she will be declared as a prostitute.
The victims often think that it will be embarrassing when other people know about the case.
Especially in Japan. Rape victims often won’t come forward because they’re afraid the shame of it would wreak their lives. To be a victim is to stand out, and can’t have that happen in a country that revolves around “social harmony”…
Amazing that he got away with it for 20 years.
Perhaps he was only detected now because attitudes have shifted enough for victims to feel safe to come forward.
A true hero.
I’ll bet we’ll see some lame American rendition of this incident on “Law and Order: SVU” by October, at the latest.
Bom-BOM!
Logic 069: The Logic of Ero-Persuasion ^__^
No, no, you won’t need fingers for 69 ^__^
Haha, this guy’s a genius!
Brb guys, going to become a logic professor
What logic has done?
As the students should have perceived, the logical error is more basic than the error in legal reasoning.
If not-P then Q
Q
Therefore not-P
Does not follow.
I’d make sure my tutees knew that… but I don’t teach logic. I teach ethics.
So how did he touch them without laying a finger?
he did touch the breasts with the fingers,
he would rather give the thousand away for the breasts ^^
X = I can touch you without laying a finger on you.
Y = I will give you ¥1,000.
Premise 1: If NOT-X, then Y.
Premise 2: Y.
Prof’s Conclusion: NOT-X.
Logical fallacy via affirmation of the consequent. Professor fails.
I was thinking the same thing. Cause and effect are not interchangeable.
it seems to me though that he’s saying that because he can’t touch them without laying his fingers on them he’ll pay them 1000 yen to touch them
Which is essentially saying the same thing, but backwards.
Well, we obviously don’t know what he really said verbatim (or literally translated). He “should” of course have touched them, then said, “oops, looks like I’ve failed and you win the 1000 yen.” I put the “should” in quotes, because what he really should have done is not do that kind of thing. And if he has indeed given them the 1000 first and then proceeded to fail the bet on purpose, he should get an additional charge for misrepresenting the very topic he teaches.
we need to study his technique, for science!!!
“Boobs + this are amazing.” DUN DUN DUN DUNNNN ~The More You Know~
They should have given the money back and punched him in the face, its not laying a finger, rather a fist.
Also if he gave them the money first he never tried to touch without touching, surley this shows his intent and bad faith in the contract.
Anyway this is based on an old blonde joke for crying out loud!
the professor did not agree to a contract with the student touching him. if the student punches back, he could have accuse them of something…like personal assult and elder abuse. and xxoo …etc
“Also if he gave them the money first he never tried to touch without touching, surley this shows his intent and bad faith in the contract.”
I think not, it instead shows the good faith in the professor’s trick.
LOL!
This article is so…
LOL.
“He abused his knowledge of logic…”
Wow!
“…None it seems could overcome his logical arguments.”
*Dies*
Oh, what a villian!
This is perfect!
Thank you!
by god!
what a cunning snidely villain!
would that work in the USA?
For those who thinks that the students fail to realize “the converse of a true if-then statement need not be true” or similar, look again. It doesn’t even enter the picture here.
Prof: I can touch you without touching you.
Girl: Impossible!
Prof: Wanna Bet?
Girl: …Okay.
(Prof goes ahead with the wager and test it out. Knowing he’ll lose the bet, 1000 yen is ready at the desk. Girl complains, but prof claims that the agreement to test out the hypothesis had been made.)
By the way, the reason most girls didn’t report him must be much more than logical reasons. Often times even flat-out harassment or rape isn’t reported.
Logically, they feared for their grades?
not really = =
The point is that it’s not (*can’t* do it, therefore gives money) but (*doesn’t* do it AND gives money). It would have been clearer with modal logic for people who can parse it, but the basic point about the material conditional illustrates that his handing over some money simply doesn’t imply anything. He certainly isn’t ‘testing anything out’… but you knew that.
a very cleaver tactic
Good lord.
Females are so stupid.
Reminds me of that movie “Derailed” where Clive Oven does something similar. He bets Jennifer Aniston $20 that he could kiss her without touching her lips.
He then goes and kisses her. She obviously claims he touched her lips and he responds by saying that’s the best $20 he’s ever spent.
This man is a GENIUS!!!
This is why I love tenure.
Funny article. Showed it to a Japanese friend and he mentioned that this Kyoko-np.net site is well known for being a fake newspaper, that essentially all of the articles that appear on that site are fake. Just wondering if anyone else has heard the same thing.
He’s right - much worse provenance than I usually deal with; I only included it as it came up in a relatively reliable site. More like the Onion than a real newspaper - don’t expect to see much (any) of it here.
Still not clear whether the story itself is genuine, but rather than wait for 2ch’s verdict I will disclaim the source.
I need to try this “logic” out.
Think of it the other way around.
the professor basically is saying,
For 1000 yen, I can touch you. =,=
and the student agrees.
What?! Another Blackmailing teacher from an eroge in real life? =_=
hey guys
kyoko shimbun is famous joke site
Sort of like the Onion, but more realistic…
Oh, someone threw reason out of the window.
“Police are scathing, and are look at adding as many charges as they possibly can”
They are counting how many medals to award to him?
that’s an old trick…
I used to do this in high school, it was so LOL.
Well I got slapped in the face many times too, they would not listen to my reasoning T_T too bad…
I wish I could be him. Maybe I will try calling over some of my female coworkers to my office right now!
What most Americans are failing to realize here is that in Japanese society, only recently have sexual assault cases been taken care of properly. In the past, even if the woman won the case, she was still ridiculed, and became a social outcast, sometimes even within her own family. Still, very few sexual assault cases lead to any sort of punishment for the criminal, but instead the person being assaulted is ridiculed for putting herself in that situation, even if there was no way she could know that was going to happen.
In the U.S., we still have some cases where the case is not handled properly, but it’s becoming more and more rare. So, what we think is a common sense issue with sexual assault is not necessarily true in Japan.
After all, in a country where you are almost always surrounded by people, social standing is one of the most important things to consider, and someone who reported the professor in this situation could have her social standing reduced to the point to where she can’t get hired for most positions due to the scandal the case would cause.
So~ educational!! XD
Gee, another case? AGAIN? *rolleyes*
Yeah, so that makes it, what? 20 odd cases being posted on SC in less than 1 year. That is certainly amazing…… >.<