Дурной, чокнутый и
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arbekaДурной, чокнутый и опасный
((В ленте пробежались по садизму.
Англ. Вика про это не знает.
Но соглашается, что где-то с 9 лет поэт познал прелести пастели.
Был склонен к мальчегам.
И, возможно, был би.))
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"Теперь. когда женщины обращали на него своё внимание, он издевался над ними. Например, он предложил жене премьера, проявившей к нему интерес, приехать к нему в костюме конюха. Когда же она исполнила его просьбу, он силой взял её прямо на конюшне (уж об этом она точно не мечтала), а потом ещё и отстегал плетью, зная, что она никому не посмеет пожаловаться. Удивительно, но леди его простила и вообще решила, что любовь гения — она же особенная. Так что вскоре Байрону пришлось бегать от неё повсюду — настолько ей хотелось отогреть его гениальную душу.
Странные садистские наклонности и игры с переодеваниями (обычно в мужскую одежду) даже интриговали некоторых дам, которые после таких слухов сами шли с поэтом на сближение. Фантазии его неизменно вертелись вокруг наказаний и изнасилований. Возраст партнёрши не имел значения.
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This is the only reference Byron himself makes to the event, and he is ambiguous as to how old he was when it occurred. After his death, his lawyer wrote to a mutual friend telling him a "singular fact" about Byron's life which was "scarcely fit for narration". But he disclosed it nonetheless, thinking it might explain Byron's sexual "propensities":
When nine years old at his mother's house a Free Scotch girl [May – sometimes called Mary – Gray, one of his first caretakers] used to come to bed to him and play tricks with his person.[113]
Gray later used this knowledge as a means of ensuring his silence if he were to be tempted to disclose the "low company" she kept during drinking binges.[114] She was later dismissed, supposedly for beating Byron when he was 11.[40]
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A few years later, while he was still a child, Lord Grey De Ruthyn (unrelated to May Gray), a suitor of his mother's, also made sexual advances on him.[115] Byron's personality has been characterised as exceptionally proud and sensitive, especially when it came to his foot deformity.[18] His extreme reaction to seeing his mother flirting outrageously with Lord Grey De Ruthyn after the incident suggests he did not tell her of Grey's conduct toward him; he simply refused to speak to him again and ignored his mother's commands to be reconciled.[115] Leslie A. Marchand, one of Byron's biographers, theorises that Lord Grey De Ruthyn's advances prompted Byron's later sexual liaisons with young men at Harrow and Cambridge.[44]
Scholars acknowledge a more or less important bisexual component in Byron's very complex sentimental and sexual life. Bernhard Jackson asserts that "Byron's sexual orientation has long been a difficult, not to say contentious, topic, and anyone who seeks to discuss it must to some degree speculate since the evidence is nebulous, contradictory and scanty... it is not so simple to define Byron as homosexual or heterosexual: he seems rather to have been both, and either."[116][117] Crompton states: "What was not understood in Byron's own century (except by a tiny circle of his associates) was that Byron was bisexual".[118] Another biographer, Fiona MacCarthy, has posited that Byron's true sexual yearnings were for adolescent males.[44] Byron used a code by which he communicated his homosexual Greek adventures to John Hobhouse in England: Bernhard Jackson recalls that "Byron's early code for sex with a boy" was "Plen(um). and optabil(em). -Coit(um)"[116] Bullough summarises:
Byron, was attached to Nicolo Giraud, a young French-Greek lad who had been a model for the painter Lusieri before Byron found him. Byron left him £7,000 in his will. When Byron returned to Italy, he became involved with a number of boys in Venice but eventually settled on Loukas Chalandritsanos, age 15, who was with him when he was killed [sic][119] (Crompton, 1985).
In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public.[120] She had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving Byron what became his lasting epitaph when she famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[121] This did not prevent her from pursuing him.
((В ленте пробежались по садизму.
Англ. Вика про это не знает.
Но соглашается, что где-то с 9 лет поэт познал прелести пастели.
Был склонен к мальчегам.
И, возможно, был би.))
............
"Теперь. когда женщины обращали на него своё внимание, он издевался над ними. Например, он предложил жене премьера, проявившей к нему интерес, приехать к нему в костюме конюха. Когда же она исполнила его просьбу, он силой взял её прямо на конюшне (уж об этом она точно не мечтала), а потом ещё и отстегал плетью, зная, что она никому не посмеет пожаловаться. Удивительно, но леди его простила и вообще решила, что любовь гения — она же особенная. Так что вскоре Байрону пришлось бегать от неё повсюду — настолько ей хотелось отогреть его гениальную душу.
Странные садистские наклонности и игры с переодеваниями (обычно в мужскую одежду) даже интриговали некоторых дам, которые после таких слухов сами шли с поэтом на сближение. Фантазии его неизменно вертелись вокруг наказаний и изнасилований. Возраст партнёрши не имел значения.
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This is the only reference Byron himself makes to the event, and he is ambiguous as to how old he was when it occurred. After his death, his lawyer wrote to a mutual friend telling him a "singular fact" about Byron's life which was "scarcely fit for narration". But he disclosed it nonetheless, thinking it might explain Byron's sexual "propensities":
When nine years old at his mother's house a Free Scotch girl [May – sometimes called Mary – Gray, one of his first caretakers] used to come to bed to him and play tricks with his person.[113]
Gray later used this knowledge as a means of ensuring his silence if he were to be tempted to disclose the "low company" she kept during drinking binges.[114] She was later dismissed, supposedly for beating Byron when he was 11.[40]
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A few years later, while he was still a child, Lord Grey De Ruthyn (unrelated to May Gray), a suitor of his mother's, also made sexual advances on him.[115] Byron's personality has been characterised as exceptionally proud and sensitive, especially when it came to his foot deformity.[18] His extreme reaction to seeing his mother flirting outrageously with Lord Grey De Ruthyn after the incident suggests he did not tell her of Grey's conduct toward him; he simply refused to speak to him again and ignored his mother's commands to be reconciled.[115] Leslie A. Marchand, one of Byron's biographers, theorises that Lord Grey De Ruthyn's advances prompted Byron's later sexual liaisons with young men at Harrow and Cambridge.[44]
Scholars acknowledge a more or less important bisexual component in Byron's very complex sentimental and sexual life. Bernhard Jackson asserts that "Byron's sexual orientation has long been a difficult, not to say contentious, topic, and anyone who seeks to discuss it must to some degree speculate since the evidence is nebulous, contradictory and scanty... it is not so simple to define Byron as homosexual or heterosexual: he seems rather to have been both, and either."[116][117] Crompton states: "What was not understood in Byron's own century (except by a tiny circle of his associates) was that Byron was bisexual".[118] Another biographer, Fiona MacCarthy, has posited that Byron's true sexual yearnings were for adolescent males.[44] Byron used a code by which he communicated his homosexual Greek adventures to John Hobhouse in England: Bernhard Jackson recalls that "Byron's early code for sex with a boy" was "Plen(um). and optabil(em). -Coit(um)"[116] Bullough summarises:
Byron, was attached to Nicolo Giraud, a young French-Greek lad who had been a model for the painter Lusieri before Byron found him. Byron left him £7,000 in his will. When Byron returned to Italy, he became involved with a number of boys in Venice but eventually settled on Loukas Chalandritsanos, age 15, who was with him when he was killed [sic][119] (Crompton, 1985).
In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public.[120] She had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving Byron what became his lasting epitaph when she famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[121] This did not prevent her from pursuing him.
