Apparently the late
Lord Baden Powell requested a copy of a book of photographs of various handsome Sicilian youths
au naturel by the famed photographer
Wilhelm von Gloeden ..surely nothing wrong there.
They weren't pornographic and the subjects were not coerced and is there any difference between those and say, a
Rubens fleshy nude hanging in the
National Gallery?
Besides obviously Baden Powell admired young people for whatever reason but there isn't a hint of anything untoward ever happening under his watch.
## On one of my many visits to Sydney I was invited to an exhibition in
Kings Cross of said
von Gloeden photos as part of the then
Sydney Gay & lesbian Mardi Gras. The evening was packed solid and spilled out into the streets (can't imagine why) when the then
Vice Squad arrived after a complaint. 3 coppers looked around the at the snaps and soon departed with one saying..
"healthy looking lads but no law has been broken".
Of course the highly politicized Mardi Gras management
would never host such an event these days and would probably be the very ones who would ring the cops today
.
Alas..the
Compensation Culture has hit the
Boy Scouts as they declare bankruptcy.
## I think this is pretty sad. the scouts are hugely popular now in the third World, Africa and Asia and the Jamborees did a great job of allowing kids from all over the world to mingle and find mutual respect.
Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid new sex-abuse lawsuits
### This is amusing:
"on 1 January when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — for decades a major sponsor of Boy Scout units — cut ties and withdrew more than 400,000 scouts in favor of programs of its own."..like, yeh give it a few years and accusers will decimate you as well.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/18/...P=Share_iOSApp_Other