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GlassBeadGame
post Mon 21st January 2008, 5:24pm
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 21st January 2008, 8:18am) *

But wait. There is another editor, Arcarius. This is latin for 'treasurer'. Arcarius' interests also involve medieval and Catholic theology, but he has a greater interest in spanking than Fastifex, and in leather equipment of all sorts, e.g. 'knout', a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, 'usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated'. Rawhide, jockstrap, men's swimsuit, human branding (!!), swimming shorts. Also uploaded a nice picture of a spanking bench in someone's living room, which appears to be still there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bench_%28furniture%29

Which is bizarre, I mean, you look up an article with pictures of garden benches and stuff your elderly parents would buy from a garden centre, and there is this horrid black contraption at the bottom (!!) of the article, with leather straps and other unidentifiable things attached.

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a spanking bench, such as a caning bench, is specifically designed for a spankee to lie upon, possibly strapped down, while submitting to paining of the posterior


Also 'stinger'

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The word can be used for an object that is similarly painfull, such as a particularly hard [[blow]], or a device that can easily cause such pain; especially, in BDSM, a [[spanking]] implement consisting of beaded wands, cemented into a cap and finished with a ring for hanging ([[http://www.paddlewerks.com/enter.html?target=front.html&lang=en-us]] sold as a 'spanking toy' - illustrated)


Much work on the 'spanking' article. Same daily edit pattern as Fastifex, i.e. sleep 12 to 6 am, rocket-powered editing until 4 o'clock, slightly less until bedtime. Where does he find time for the spanking?


The post and the preceding one by you in this thread make up an extraordinary, and disconcerting, analysis.
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post Mon 21st January 2008, 5:28pm
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QUOTE(dtobias @ Sun 20th January 2008, 8:17pm) *

What about the article on "girl"? It's got this interesting item:

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The word's earliest meaning in English was a child of either sex. A female child was called a gay girl while a male child was called a knave girl.


I wouldn't suggest calling a female child a "gay girl" in modern times, though.


Which is sourced to Reader's Digest, which I would not really call reliable. They reprint urban legends on a semi-regular basis.
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post Mon 21st January 2008, 5:39pm
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Why isn't there a militant editor by the name of Corporal Punishment in this fray?
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post Mon 21st January 2008, 7:54pm
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QUOTE(Amarkov @ Mon 21st January 2008, 12:14pm) *

I don't get it. Why do we need so many pictures to illustrate what a boy is?


And with many of those pictures with naked/semi-naked boys?

Oh, I found a good reason not to release a picture of yourself or anyone into the GFDL. That picture of the Boy Scouts on the boy articles has now ended up on a Wikia "spanking art" site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ScoutFun.png

http://spankingart.wikia.com/wiki/Image:ScoutFun.png

Those poor kids!
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post Mon 21st January 2008, 11:15pm
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There are plenty of better, less controversial pictures of boys on Commons.

Like this one that is heart-breaking to me.

Or even this one, if WP is desperate.

Anyway, thanks Krimpet for getting rid some of the controversial aspects of that article. I would have used my account to do so, but I had this fear that there were "owners" of that page wanting to keep things in the status quo for... um... "nefarious" reasons.
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post Mon 24th March 2008, 3:13am
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I fear the boy article may be coming under siege again. Krimpet and others trimmed it of most of the stuff I was concerned about a while back, but it seems some are determined to keep the pedestry and "Boi (gender)" links in the article. I just don't see a reason why. Does Britannica or any other encyclopedia discuss pederasty in their boy articles?

I sense some villainy afoot.
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post Mon 24th March 2008, 3:27am
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Hate to... oh my... triple post, but this guy, Arcarius, and this guy, Icarus3 are the ones who have reverted much of the article back to its "disturbing" version.
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post Mon 24th March 2008, 4:04am
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Icarus3: some grammar mistakes here and there, first edit is on a talk page using an edit summary about NPOV, also psychology articles (Freudian oral, anal, genitasl stages, anger and rage, disorders, etc), added to some hHarry Potter mish-mash and the Emo article. However, aside from that, Icarus' edits are mostly to birth-related, sexual (masturbation, condom, etc), and (surprise!) BDSM-related topics and the spanking article.
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post Mon 24th March 2008, 4:16am
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My concerns are not so much Icarus or even Arcarius, but the fact that the boy article has remained in a pro-pedophilia state for as long as it has and that "consensus" is defending it. Krimpet tried to fix it and that was fine until others came along and undid her work.

I wish morals and ethics would trump Wikipedia policy one day.
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post Mon 24th March 2008, 2:34pm
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QUOTE(The Joy @ Mon 24th March 2008, 4:16am) *

My concerns are not so much Icarus or even Arcarius, but the fact that the boy article has remained in a pro-pedophilia state for as long as it has and that "consensus" is defending it. Krimpet tried to fix it and that was fine until others came along and undid her work.

I wish morals and ethics would trump Wikipedia policy one day.


I'm pleased to see that no one has reverted Arcarius' idiosyncratic contribution to the garden furniture article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bench_%28furniture%29

(See my analysis above of Arcarius' disturbing work).
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