Militant musicologist is suspended in prostitution sting

Militant musicologist is suspended in prostitution sting

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norman lebrecht

April 14, 2023

The Sheriff of Denton County, Texas, has charged 17 people in connection with online prostitution. One of them is the musicologist Peter Mondelli, who reportedly approached a woman online for a sexual encounter, only to find cops waiting with cuffs when he arrived at the assignation point.

Mondelli, a specialist in nineteenth-century music, French opera, media history, and critical theory, has been suspended from his position as associate professor at the University of North Texas College of Music.

In his campus activities, he was one of the leading activists in the ugly ‘anti-racist’ campaign to downgrade the Schenker expert Timothy Jackson. Mondelli was recently promoted to be chair of the two important governance positions, the graduate research committee and the faculty personnel committee. He is now on leave of absence until the case against him is resolved.

Comments

  • Sanity says:

    Not quite sure how a musicologist can be described as ‘militant’…

  • samach says:

    He should’ve realized it was a sting operation when the woman agreed to have sex with him even after he told her he was a musicologist.

  • Traviata says:

    This is bullshit Texas law enforcement targeting the wrong people for the wrong reasons but making headline grabbing arrests that don’t do a damn thing to the actual problem.

    If the police wants to stop human trafficking, then they should go after the human trafficking rings themselves, the traffickers themselves and more relevant, the actual real clients soliciting actual real prostitutes.

    Here, there was no actual trafficked human involved, it was some fictictious virtual avatar on a screen. Where’s the actual trafficked victim? How are any of the real trafficked human victims helped? They are all still out there being exploited. How are the human traffickers punished? How has the real human trafficking ring been dismantled?

    There are legitimate sex workers, and there are legitimate clients who seek out their legitimate services, and these stings catch only them.

  • lone star idiocy says:

    Setting up Johns for entrapment. Where but Texghanistan. The state didn’t abolish its laws against homosexuality until it was ruled to do so in 2003 by the Supreme Court. It recently outlawed an abortion pill, and the governor recently pardoned a man who murdered a BLM protester in cold blood. Texghanistan combines Old South Bigotry with the thuggery of Old West cowboy gunslingers. Klansmen with cowboy hats.

    • Anon says:

      This was a joint federal, state, local operation (see above).
      It was about human trafficking.

    • PaulD says:

      The BLM protestor was armed with an AK-47, a club and a knife. He wasn’t out trick or treating.

    • Sue Sonata Form says:

      From what I know, in the USA prostitution is illegal. Having seen many stings on the “Cops” reality TV show, where men are set up by undercover (not ‘underwear’) agents, I have long been appalled by this. It’s the oldest ‘profession’ in the world.

      Unless this is an instance of pedophilia, leave this poor man alone. It sounds as though he’s miserable enough.

  • Robert Holmén says:

    I was music student at UNT back in the 80s.

    No where else have I encountered so many teachers who could not teach.

  • Anon says:

    Mondelli is part of the woke mob that will do anything to enforce their ideology on others. Morality doesn’t matter. Other people don’t matter. We will destroy anyone that disagrees with us.

  • Phil K says:

    But don’t you know that sex workers are social justice paragons now? So say overweight American lesbians with green hair, presumably because no one in their right mind would ever pay for sex with them

  • David K. Nelson says:

    His big mistake was asking for the senior discount

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