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Reddit mentions of Room to Play
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Reddit mentions: 6
We found 6 Reddit mentions of Room to Play. Here are the top ones.
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Because this was the reality of what he had:
>Boys Will Be Boys included pictures of boys, many naked, in various non-sexual activities such as climbing a tree or sitting on a bench. The book had an inscription reading, "To Michael: From your fan. Love XXXOOO Rhonda – 1983, Chicago."[57] Another book, The Boy: A Photographic Essay was inscribed, "Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy in these boys' faces. This is the spirit of boyhood, a life I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children. MJ." The book contained pictures of boys in various situations by different photographers, including pictures taken during the filming of the 1963 Lord of the Flies movie and showed the boys on the set, usually clothed but sometimes nude, playing in the sand, reading comic books, and having pillow fights.[58][59] The only book depicting male sex acts was a rare out-of-print book called A Sexual Study of Man which featured many images of adult men engaged in all kinds of homosexual intercourse which the prosecution admitted they could not tell if Jackson had opened.[57]
Others are books like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Room-Play-Simen-Johan/dp/1931885095/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/porn-found-in-michael-jacksons-home-2/
In a library like this:
http://rhythmofthetide.com/category/favorite-things/books-favorite-things-2
With hetero porn like this:
http://lacienegasmiled.wordpress.com/category/2005-court-case/porn/
Photo of Spence was reportedly of him as a baby/toddler.
No matter what has happened or will happen with Jackson court cases, the fact remains that he's dead, and we will never understand his psyche.
This document disturbs me and makes me sad. That said, I can't imagine that I'd look like a great person if my entire porn history was presented in a courtroom.
For what it's worth, the first three books about boys are all being sold by third party sellers on Amazon. Judge for yourself the content:
The boy
In search of young beauty
Boys will be boys
Chop suey club
Before the hand of man
Robert Maxwell photographs
Taormina
Golden age of neglect
Room to play
Whatever you think of him, good or bad, the fact remains that he's dead dead dead, as dead as anything that has ever been dead. We will never understand.
That's not what it was, it wasn't deemed child pornography in the courtroom, because it literally legally couldn't be. For example, one of the books mentioned in the document, is this one: https://www.amazon.ca/Room-Play-Simen-Johan/dp/1931885095 from the looks of it, I wouldn't deem that child pornography.
This is the book the document lists as morphing kids faces onto adult bodies
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simen-Johan-Room-Lyle-Rexer/dp/1931885095
You mean this book that anyone can buy right now off amazon?
Room to Play https://www.amazon.com/dp/1931885095/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_31ePCbKARTR3M
“Simen Johan’s Room To Play has probably been most responsible for many of the more salacious media headlines, as Johan’s style (like that of Jonathan Hobin) often features photographs of children in what appear to be extreme or neglectful conditions. The “morphing” photographs in Johan’s book-where children’s faces appeared to be superimposed over adult bodies (and vice versa)-are clearly part of an artistic statement about the loss of childhood and what happens when children are forced too soon into the turmoil and pain of adulthood. “
Trust me, I’ve done all the research. I’m not a biased individual or Jackson fan trying to bend the truth. The guy was weird but the claims from his trials were spun so badly by the media it’s not even funny. None of these items were ever brought to trial because none of it would have ever held up in court.
The only two books of naked boys:
>Boys Will Be Boys included pictures of boys, many naked, in various non-sexual activities such as climbing a tree or sitting on a bench. The book had an inscription reading, "To Michael: From your fan. Love XXXOOO Rhonda – 1983, Chicago."[57] Another book, The Boy: A Photographic Essay was inscribed, "Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy in these boys' faces. This is the spirit of boyhood, a life I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children. MJ." The book contained pictures of boys in various situations by different photographers, including pictures taken during the filming of the 1963 Lord of the Flies movie and showed the boys on the set, usually clothed but sometimes nude, playing in the sand, reading comic books, and having pillow fights.[58][59] The only book depicting male sex acts was a rare out-of-print book called A Sexual Study of Man which featured many images of adult men engaged in all kinds of homosexual intercourse which the prosecution admitted they could not tell if Jackson had opened.[57]
I guess when they confiscated those two books from that fan in 1993 that had been given to MJ in 1983, he hadn't known where else to obtain child pornography and so had left it at that, not collecting anymore and then not having any again when his home was raided in 2003.
Others are books like this, which Redditors seemed to feel was really awful but actually seems to hurt the prosecution really:
http://www.amazon.com/Room-Play-Simen-Johan/dp/1931885095/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
As they show how sad the adultification of children is, not how wonderful.
There's also books in there from photographers who'd sent them to him, other photographers who'd worked with him, and famous photographers like one who had been persecuted by the Nazis.
And the photo of Spence was of a toddler.
You also realize ALL of that was shown to three juries so far, none of which has indicted him with a crime?