Pedrick was an extremely prolific British inventor in the 1960s and 1970s. Bursting with ideas, he clearly felt he had to share them with the world. After a career as an examiner in the UK Patent Office, he spent his retirement applying for large numbers of patents.

The practicality of his ideas never seems to have troubled him, as these examples show.

In a letter to Aristotle, Hephaiston documents a brief detour to Meiza, the site of his formative education. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a peaceful few days reminiscing about old times is interrupted by two strange men the likes of which Hephaiston has never seen.

A long time later a boy takes a girl to Diagon Alley on a date.

If anyone else wants to share personal experience on warnings either historically or in their current form, please feel free to add a link and I'll organize these. I am going to go out on a limb and say that this topic is far from dead and I'd like to have a reference post to consult later.

I'm going to say this in case it needs saying; the new (and much better) reasons for warnings are not incompatible with avoiding the historical (and in some fandoms, current) use of warnings as social control. We can do both, and from what I'm reading, we can do it in a way that satisfies vidders that warnings will not be used for specific institutional exclusionary purposes, only personal use.

Alternatively, you can just go to Alexei Panshin's website and read the hilarously, meticulously detailed and documented account of his feud with Robert Heinlein over whether Heinlein could write sex or not, which puts all of f_w to shame forever, and then write me 1960s SF Fandom RPF instead. I wouldn't mind. (Though the website is longer than the books...)

LGBT history and politics in Canada

Here's the first set of my translations of the position descriptions from that Sui Dynasty sex manual (helpfully Latinized, as you may recall, by the author of the work on sex in ancient China that [info]telophase has been reading).

...it was one thing to depict ladies being ravished by cephalopods, he told Handley in a letter, and indeed quite titillating to a certain sadistic type of person, but quite another to suggest that they might be enjoying the experience.

Victorian furry brothels?

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