Quoted: Amazon.com: The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (9780801866463): Rachel P. Maines: Books

"The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.
[...] Disregarding the conventional ideas of the day, the committee recommended that "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence". All but James Adair were in favour of this and, contrary to some medical and psychiatric witnesses' evidence at that time, found that "homosexuality cannot legitimately be regarded as a disease, because in many cases it is the only symptom and is compatible with full mental health in other respects."

looks like a good film.

"Victim became a highly sociologically significant film; many believe it played an influential role in liberalizing attitudes (as well as British law) regarding homosexuality"

Quoted: AFDBs are stylish and comfortable.

even with Herzog behind it, i'm skeptical about any attempt to remake Bad Lieutenant. the original is so classic.

Quoted: trialer = Werner Herzog’s new film BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS,

quoted: Engineer Carl Morgan’s son complained that a certain hill was too hard to climb on his bicycle. Could his dad invent a machine to help him power over these inclines? The answer came in “Joules”, an electrically-powered robot that rides in the back seat of a tandem bicycle:

Quoted: After centuries of chronic unemployment, millions of small children across the United Kingdom saw their lives drastically improve when the Industrial Revolution at long last provided them with steady factory work regardless of age, size, or experience.

Quoted: Victor Serge: What everyone should know about repression (1926)

i love Marxists.org.

Quoted: Archive of writings by Victor Serge