Talk:Cottaging

message: I dont know where this "kite flying" idea has come from, Ive never heard of it. Any proof? OMG u have never heard of this :O lol well not many people have but still OMG
:Just out of curiosity ... what is it?  -- Banjeboi 06:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "kite flying"

message: this article mentions problems with entrapment, and its not entirely accurate.  Entrapment laws for all intents and purposes do not exist in the US.  A cop can ask you "would you like to buy pot?" or "would you like to have sex in public" and that is considered fine.  A officer can engage in any activity that a 'normal' person would do in the course of duty.  To prove entrapment, you would have to prove you were a person that would never have done it if it wasnt mentioned, and that is a very hard thing to  prove. -matt —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.113.146.30 (talk) 17:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: entrapment

message: The image caption has recently been changed, moving the location from Greenwich Park to Pond Square. Since the two locations are not easily confused, I'm concerned this may be erroneous but am reluctant to revert without evidence. Anyone know for sure? Barnabypage 08:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - I'm the photographer who initially uploaded it.  While I don't know the name of the park, it was just a few blocks north of Highgate Cemetery.  MattHucke(t) 19:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please ensure you add that information to the image file as well for future editors.  -- Banjeboi 06:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: location of image

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Cottaging's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Guardian":
From Faggot (slang):  Gettysburg Times (PA), Aug 30, 1969: Order Health Data on Fag Advertising
From Stedman Pearson: 
From Five Star: "Let's Go Round Again" by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 26 June 2008
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thread_title: Orphaned references in [[:Cottaging]]

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message: Chopin wrote in one of his letters about his experience with London urinals. Obviously a quite exceptional passage in his correspondence, which is shown by the many contemporary publications who expicitly pointed that passage out.https://www.welt.de/kultur/klassik/plus220820920/Frederic-Chopin-Der-schmutzige-Traum-den-ich-von-Dir-hatte.html The Guardian concluded that Chopin was describing cottaging.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/chopins-interest-in-men-airbrushed-from-history-programme-claims I put it into the list in the article, but it was swiftly deleted by a user without reason. What does the wiki-communitiy think about it?
That was my contribution:
1837: The famous polish composer Frédéric Chopin is supposed to have practiced cottaging during his icognito stay under the name of „Mr. Fritz“ in London in July 1837.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/chopins-interest-in-men-airbrushed-from-history-programme-claims In a letter from London to Julian Fontana in Paris he then wrote: „it amuses me most worthily. You can tell Jaś that one can amuse oneself here with cautious ease - when one is here for a short time. Huge things!! - Great urinals. And yet, there is nowhere to have a good tinkle. [...] everything washed and yet as black as a nobleman‘s a..!!!“https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/list/585_to-an-unknown-recipient-in-paris
And that‘s the original passage from Chopin’s letter (July 1837 to Julian Fontana) in polish:
[…] że mnie to bardzo szanownie bawi, możesz Jasiowi powiedzieć, że się tu ostrożnie łatwo bawić – kiedy się na krótko. – Ogromne rzeczy!! – Wielkie urynały. – Nie ma się mimo to gdzie wypsipsiać. […] wszystko umyte a czarne jak szlachecka d...!!! – Całuję Cię w twarzhttps://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/list/585_to-an-unknown-recipient-in-paris
--Chip-chip-2020 (talk) 09:09, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chopin and the London urinals