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To: WorkingClassFilth
Personal knowledge? Well, I've never had sex with Baden Powell so I guess I don't have personal knowledge about it. I remember reading at least a couple of articles that mentioned it though - let's see what Google has...

http://www.gayscribe.com/readingroom/scoutingfounder.htm

The available evidence points inexorably to the conclusion that Baden-Powell was a repressed homosexual [...]Among other things, it is known that he enjoyed watching young men swim naked and that he expressed disdain for seeing female nudity. Baden-Powell also had a decades-long friendship with Kenneth McLaren, with whom he served in the military and with whom he shared accommodations as often as he could.

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/040397wo.htm

However, according to Patrick Higgins' 1993 book, "A Queer Reader": "In recent years two authors have suggested that Baden-Powell may have been homosexual. Neither offered any evidence, and both based their supposition entirely upon a shared suspicion that his relationship with (his longtime friend) Kenneth McLaren might have been a physical one."

On Nov. 15, 1919, McLaren wrote in his journal: "(We) stayed with Tod. Tod's photos of naked boys and trees, etc. Excellent." Three days later, in a letter to A.H. Tod, Baden-Powell wrote, "Possibly, I might get a further look at those wonderful photographs of yours?"


Admittedly, not the best sources, but I couldn't find anything out there refuting them or any other info...

162 posted on 11/01/2002 11:51:37 AM PST by Stone Mountain
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To: Stone Mountain
Nice try, but no Clintonian cigar for you. You bad, bad boy. You have my permission to get someone to spank you.
180 posted on 11/01/2002 9:27:56 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Stone Mountain
Sorry, Mr. Mountain, but that was such as stupid post that I believe I'll come back for a second lick.

You know, I swam nekkid as a kid (and, with convivial company as an adult too ;)) numerous times. I actually like swimming nekkid. What does that mean according to the gay sources you cite? Read for comprehension, man.

My daughter (3 years old) like to run around nekkid after her bath. At times, I have photographed these episodes because they are cute as heck. I laugh every time I see her little butt streaking around the house. What dark impulses do I repress?

Please. If nitwits wish to rule, please found your own damn country and foster your own sick organizations.
181 posted on 11/01/2002 9:39:43 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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