It pleases me to read ancient media. Especially popular or niche publications of the past several centuries. It has taught me that we were are, and will continue to be total shit heads.
However there are exceptions. Below is an artifact I found in the June, 1906 edition of the Brit "Gentleman's Magazine".
No it's not porn.
Gent's 'zines back in the day were for just that. The plutocratic owners of the sweaty masses.
Mostly these things are full of the usual. How to beat your servants in entertaining ways shooting animals for fun, and making light of Wogs. However from time to time something interesting crops up. For example their interest in School Boys, and things thus related.
"The Gentleman's Magazine June, 1906"
It has been said that men of genius have something of the "eternal boy" about them. They are better able to recall the long lost thoughts of boyhood, and sympathize with it's feelings, and aspirations more than other men.
They see hear, and touch through a golden mist.
Boys, our special boys they walk in a vain show, are passionate after dreams, and unconcerned about reality.
G.P. Gordon
My heavens. Such would today get a gent busted beaten bloody, and locked up for 25 to life,...especially if illustrated. The future is not necessarily a better place.
3 comments:
I think I could have done quite well as a British gent back in the day, as I mentioned - except for that dratted baggage of conscience.
Actually, there was a way to deal with that even then: be a socialist, like William Morris or Edward Carpenter; also, join the Order of Chaeronea, a gay secret society modeled on occult organizations of the period. But I’d have had to spend a lot of time on the Continent, in North Africa, and maybe even a spot of India. I’d gad about the Med with my fellow Chaeroneans in our yacht, visiting Gloeden in Sicily and going on long pleasure cruises, reviving the delights of long-lost civilizations as we flit from Aegean island to island... But always dressing properly for dinner, you understand.
Z
I think we might have the beginnings of a good story here.
Z
Words of George Cecil Ives. Founder of the scared Queer society Order of Chaeronea.
This in 1897 or there abouts:
"We believe in the glory of passion. We believe in the inspiration of emotion. We believe in the holiness of love."
Sounds okay to me.
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