[1] The current editors-in-chief are Bella Dicks, Karen Henwood, and William Housley (Cardiff University).

[2] On April 26, 2022, the journal published a "research note" by Karl Andersson, a PhD student and publisher of pederastic magazine Destroyer, with the title "I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan".

[4][5][6] On August 22, 2022, the journal retracted the note, explaining that while it "has systems in place to flag ethical concerns raised by article submissions prior to review, those same systems do not fully extend to note submissions", that the "two peer reviewers who considered the note did not raise ethical concerns", and that Andersson explained that "the work described in this note was carried out as a piece of independent research in Germany, without institutional ethical oversight".

[7] The controversy prompted Greater Manchester Police to investigate the case, and SAGE to review its submission processes.

[9][10] After an internal investigation, the University of Manchester ended its association with the controversial researcher in 2023.