Oscar Wilde Bio 5

Oscar Wilde

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[raven782666]

this is just brillant, thanks for posting.

[gagothesith]

Even the magnificently brilliant Oscar Wilde was not immune from hubris turning into one's own downfall--he could have been heterosexual but would have suffered as disastrous a defeat in the hands of another brilliant mind of which potency he had underestimated.

[wade43671]

Thank you for posting this collection. I recently went out and bought a compendium on Wilde's works. What a brilliant mind and probably the most "human" of a human being.

[deliriousweare]

wow, at minute 2:43 there is this lovely dance music from pride and prejudice...

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat You are absolutely right. But nowadays we still have the same behaviour towards poorer people. Prostitutes in the third world or even in poorer countries of Europe or even drug addicts who of course caused this one way street themselves by their drug conduct (not in the first place but as a consequence of a bad or even sexually abused childhood) but still end up very often having no other choice. I condemn men equally who take advantage of their "situation".

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat P.S.: Though for me there is no excuse for someone abusing young people/Children.

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat Sadly this is how human society works. You must take into account that many gay people can rely on Oscar Wilde as an idol or a role model. Or someone to be proud of. I don't think that's a bad thing. It only shows that no matter what sexual orientation one has, everone has his/her darker side, no matter in which way it expresses itself.

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat I have just thought of something else: I think that lots of men, whether celebrities or not, frequented prostitutes. I think that's always been quite a common thing, back then and nowadays- and who tells us, that the female prostitutes weren't /aren't also too young, maybe offered by their older brother or even father? Especially if the girls/rentboys came from the lower classes or poor population.

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat I wouldn't consider myself as "an obsessed fan". I only think his stories/faire tales are quite good stuff. To be honest I didn't think that much about this "part of his life". If they were that young it sure would be a very bad thing and very awful. But after all- who can tell for sure- I mean, none of us can travel back in a time machine?

[009firefox]

@TheDiddlysquat Where did you get that from? I mean about the age of the rent boys (13).

[pandemilo]

@chuckstar666 ...and people like him so much because he was severely not like you