Gary Glitter "could be executed by firing squad"

Have you seen the photo? Would you post it to this thread?

even if you accept it's child porn, which i don't, it's weak evidence for the uk having any kind of official tolerance for child abuse, because the picture was seized and the exhibition forced to close.

'The boy scout thing' and other tabloid horrors e.g. hen parties dressed as schoolgirls - I don't speak from a position of expertise or anything but, logically speaking, isn't adults dressed as kids the exact opposite of paedophilia?

Actually I have seen the photo. I think it may even be in the big Nan Goldin retrospective available in a bookshop near you. I'm not sure what point there would be of posting it here beyond prurience.

a little light reading on the matter

I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist btw.

by using gary glitter's name and likeness in this i guess they will have to pay GG some kind of loyalty for this programme?

which means because of this programme effectively GG has now got paid for molesting children?

adults dressed as kids

It was teenagers dressed as strippers. Anyway, like I said, I didn't want to pick a fight with the U.K. or nothing. I just wanted some information. I'm going to fuck off for a couple of hours and this thread will have returned to discussing Gary Glitter.

royalty obv.

xpost it's not picking a fight with the uk so much - child abuse investigations are woefully under-resourced by the police over here, for instance - but you're basically accusing elton john of being a paedophile, and given the long history of prejudicial attempts to associate homosexuality with abuse, people are understandably objecting.

did someone here just call nan goldin a child pornographer?

teenagers dressed as strippers

Wow.

It was teenagers dressed as strippers.

It was 18 and 19 year olds, so yeah, teenagers, but also adults. I get that you're not trying to pick a fight with the UK but after about 200 years of our media being pretty obsessed with the idea that we are sinking into some kind of self imposed cesspit of perversion it's not surprising if we get a bit bored of it.

Or...er...what Joe said.

teenagers dressed as strippers

Shocking, what next, the Sun printing pictures of topless 16 year old girls on Page 3?

The police in Newcastle did, essentially! I was at Baltic for the opening the night that they removed the Goldin photo, which had been shown all over the place prior to the seizure, without incdent, so it was possibly a case of cops in search of publicity/trouble (I'm no fan of police as art critics) because on balance they are sensationalist and pig ignorant). The room where it was hung had already been restricted to 18 and over.

front page: GORDON BROWN'S SO CALLED GREAT BRITAIN DESCENDS INTO CHILD PORN HELL

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... AND HE CAN'T EVEN SPELL PAEDOPHILE

actually not enough puns in there. "NUDE BRITANNIA"

xpost

Glad someone beat me to the "18/19-year-olds are adults, dumbass" argument.

A few years ago, The Sun's page three had a feature about their models having "It's their Sixteenth Birthday!! Wor", etcet.

Until someone pointed out that they must have had their photos done while they were still 15.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27720875

Gary Glitter has been charged with eight counts of sexual offences against girls.

The charges relate to two women who were aged between 12 and 14 at the time of the alleged offences between 1977 and 1980.

The former pop star - real name Paul Gadd - is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 19 June.

The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken over five allegations made by two other people.

Baljit Ubhey, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: "We have carefully considered the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service."

Mr Gadd, 70, was arrested on 28 October 2012.
Police material

Ms Ubhey said police had been "providing material to the CPS since July 2013, with the most recent material submitted in March 2014".

The charges relating to the first complainant, who was aged 12 or 13 at the time of the alleged offences, are:

Two counts of indecent assault between 31 January and 31 May 1977
One count of administering a drug or other thing in order to facilitate sexual intercourse between 31 January and 31 May 1977
One count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 between 31 January and 31 May 1977
Two counts of indecent assault between 31 May and 31 December 1977

Charges relating to the second complainant, who was aged 13 or 14 at the time of the alleged offences, are two counts of indecent assault between 1 October 1979 and 31 December 1980.

The fifth grade concert band at my son's school played "The Hey Song" at their spring recital. As a non-sports watcher, my only mental association with this song is that it was written by this dude.

https://www.fes.de/de/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_JHD010092_92a28445ab.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPJyRaSW0AArAE0.jpg
I've not seen this in a long time, but it seems to be doing the rounds today.

that’s... unfortunate

it's funny because he raped young people.

And "This is the age.. of the Train!"

Actually, there is an excellent documentary based around the Sex Pistols Christmas 1977 charity gig in Huddersfield. At one point they played that ad, and had inserted John doing the payoff line. Very deft, our Julian!

(as opposed to Savile, obv)

if only trump had been president in time to intervene. he’s into defending pedophiles and flexing his muscle around the world

(i hope my sarcasm here is apparent)

The trains I went on back then never looked anything like those Inter-City 125's on the Savile adverts, it was usually dilapidated old rolling stock from the 50's/60's.

Ah, it doesn't seem that long ago we could have re-filmed the on-train scenes from "Hard Day's Night" simply by getting on at Earley Station..