So you’re disappointed in Boing Boing?
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How easily has his name been dragged in the gutter… I’m appalled that Boing Boing spreads such garbage.
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I lean towards straight on the Kinsey scale but if you checked my collection of art (deco era and otherwise) you’d also find many “sketches of nude men and boys”.
Not saying he didn’t have a predilection or that he was a good person or even innocent, but fuck this moralizing/shaming over erotica.
It’s really difficult to separate the odd, broken, shitty man he was from the tabloid flourishes. They don’t even need to exaggerate! But yet they do.
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Yes. But somehow the mountains of his personal collection of the world’s most despicable acts didn’t make it to the news or his court case.
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Maybe awareness that pederasts in powerful positions are protected for some reason?
Like they just have a little raping kids problem. Nothing to bad… doesn’t affect their music/image/politics/team.
We have a matter of priorities here.
And sadly people are gonna pop off psycho until we start talking about it. Which people care about.
But most victims just quietly die. Trying not to hurt anyone on their way to death.
So like. I still care. Even if it’s over. And sensational.
I’ll meet you half-way in calling the unprovenenced items a hoax.
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not really porn though:
“the document cites several contemporary art books apparently found at
the singer’s home during a 2003 raid. The report references images by
James Bidgood, Rineka Dijkstra, Ed Templeton, Robert Maxwell, Tom
Bianchi, and well-known 19th-century images by Wilhelm von Gloeden of young men in classically inspired poses.”
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