Robert Baden-Powell & is Aqualung still spanking the Girl Guides?

[ish mailian]

Aqualung wasn't a concept album, although a lot of people thought so.
The idea came about from a photograph my wife at the time took of a
tramp in London. I had feelings of guilt about the homeless, as well
as fear and insecurity with people like that who seem a little scary.
And I suppose all of that was combined with a slightly romanticized
picture of the person who is homeless but yet a free spirit, who
either won't or can't join in society's prescribed formats.

Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in
1908 by Sir Arthur Pearson, for youth readership. In 1907, he held the
first Brownsea Island Scout camp, which is now seen as the beginning
of Scouting.

The first Scout Rally was held at The Crystal Palace in 1909, at which
appeared a number of girls dressed in Scout uniform, who told B-P that
they were the "Girl Scouts", whereupon B-P and his sister Agnes
Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides Movement. After his marriage on 30
October 1912 to Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell and his wife
actively gave guidance to the Scouting and Girl Guiding Movements.
Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and
was buried in 1941.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell

Sexuality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell#Sexuality

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Historians’ speculations about Baden-Powell’s sexuality have usually
hinged on the question of whether the relationship with McLaren was a
physical one, but this is not necessarily germane. A man as steeped in
the puritan, idealistic mores of his era as Baden-Powell clearly was
might well have been too repressed to act on urges that he, and
everyone in his social circle, would have considered not only
transgressive but sinful.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html

Girl scouts are often considered attractive due to their innocence and
age, and also due to the connotations of scouts with traditional
values such as discipline, obedience andsubmission to authority. In
many forms of media, including mainstream and spanking fiction, girl
scouts are spanked or receive another form of corporal punishment for
misbehaving. Some spankees role play wearing real girl scout uniforms
or costume reproductions.

http://spankingart.org/wiki/Girl_scout

The lyrics give a description and backstory of Aqualung. He is
described as a dirty, paedophilic, homeless man. This, however, is
merely the view of average passerby. By viewing Aqualung as a
disgusting paedophile, we can excuse ourselves with not helping him.
In verse two and three, the truth of Aqualung is told. He is simply an
old man, who is lonely, sick and in pain, whom nobody cares for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(song)
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