David and Tristan Tate and their “supporters”

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

Partly clothed women are not pornography.

M0nica

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

Partly clothed women are not pornography.

And I'm very surprised they were displayed in Government (or Local Government) offices.

Where as now we have made such amazing progress that an Mp had to resign for watching porn in the H of C, it almost makes me nostalgic for the calender days.

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

Iam 64 was responding to a poster who claimed pornography was everywhere including UK newspapers and TV in the 1970's ( she knew because she'd seen it).

Very clearly, she had confused nudity with pornography.

Galaxy 🙈

One high security mental health facility in the late seventies had those calendars in the (male) nurses office. The paedophile inmates had images of children cut from mothercare catalogues on the panels round their beds. The nurses were very cross when two young feminist students suggested the wall decorations needed removing

I value your posts so much Iam64 but crikey sometimes they are depressing reading!

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

DH worked in a very small department of 2, and in their shared office colleague Alastair put up a 12 page porn calendar featuring rape fantasy.
Each page showed a half naked battered and distressed women whose clothes had been ripped off

They had female cleaners, female business visitors, our little boys sometimes went to their dad's office and so did I. DH told the guy to take down his vile calendar and he refused.

When Alastair turned over Miss January, he discovered that Miss February ( and all the others) had all learned to speak and had all been raped by Alastair. In speech bubbles they were all exchanging explicit comments on Alastair; his pathetic penis size, erectile dysfunction, sexual tastes, disgusting sores etc.

DH recognised the handwriting...

Allira

M0nica

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

Partly clothed women are not pornography.

And I'm very surprised they were displayed in Government (or Local Government) offices.

Oh, yes, I saw plenty in Oxfordshire County Council offices in the 1980s. It was the department responsible for maintaining building services in council buildings. Every engineer seemed to have at least half a dozen stuck to the wall of his cubicle. Of course this was in back offices, not the public areas.

M0nica

Allira

M0nica

FranP

Iam64# "Pornography was not ‘everywhere’ in the seventies."

Working in a govt office in the late 70s, it was normal to see calendars with partly clothed women on the walls.

Partly clothed women are not pornography.

And I'm very surprised they were displayed in Government (or Local Government) offices.

Oh, yes, I saw plenty in Oxfordshire County Council offices in the 1980s. It was the department responsible for maintaining building services in council buildings. Every engineer seemed to have at least half a dozen stuck to the wall of his cubicle. Of course this was in back offices, not the public areas.

Perhaps they hid them in their desk drawer where I worked, M0nica.
Certainly, one of the men in the LG office where I first worked was a predatory sleaze ball but I dealt with him quite efficiently!

Allira One job I had early on, on the first day, two of the clerical staff took me to one side and warned me about one of the men in the department. 'If he comes into the office when you are alone, stand up and keep moving.

However, I gave him his comeuppance. My manger signed off all the expense claims. My job was to check them before submitting them to him. I was looking at one of this sleazeballs expenses one day and some of the figures looked inflated, so I ueried them. My manager took this up with him and he had to re-submit considerably lower figures, and of course make sure they were not inflated therafter because I would be checking them. He never came near me again.

It’s interesting how many of us were warned to avoid the known office groper

I do remember training a young man at work 20 years ago and he flipped out his mobile phone and started looking at porn. OK it was nothing hard core, but I told him he could be in serious trouble if a manager or a woman saw the phone. He was later sacked, but this was for poor attendance and answering back callers on the phone. Never liked the guy as he was aggressive, misogynistic and lazy.