02 May Connecting The Dots
Since you haven’t seen some welds in a while, let’s show you some.
As you recall from last week’s awkward weld porn post, we were making two exhausts off this S65 AMG. The first one is complete, up to the tips. The second was being constructed while the first one was, so while a large majority of the second exhaust is complete, we have to mock it up to the AMG and tack in the final pieces to make sure fitment is spot on, as there’s not a lot of room for error with this size piping. So it’s like one big game of connecting the dots.
Since last week’s poorly-written porn dialogue went over so well, we’ve decided to retire that segment. In place of it, rather than just some boilerplate text about 309-this and backpurging-that, we’ll be presenting our welding porn alongside snippets from Wikipedia’s page on the history of pornography. Let’s start with this gem: “Nineteenth century legislation eventually outlawed the publication, retail and trafficking of certain writings and images regarded as pornographic, and would order the destruction of shop and warehouse stock, meant for sale. However, the private possession of and viewing of (some forms of) pornography was not made an offense until recent times.”
“When large scale excavations of Pompeii were undertaken in the 1860s, much of the erotic art of the Romans came to light, shocking the Victorians who saw themselves as the intellectual heirs of the Roman Empire. They did not know what to do with the frank depictions of sexuality, and endeavored to hide them away from everyone but upper class scholars. The moveable objects were locked away in the Secret Museum in Naples and what could not be removed was covered and cordoned off as to not corrupt the sensibilities of women, children and the working class.”
“Fanny Hill is considered ‘the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel.’ It is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The authors were charged with ‘corrupting the King’s subjects.’
“Sexually explicit films were soon characterised as obscene and rendered illegal. Those that were made were produced underground by amateurs starting in the 1920s, primarily in France and the United States. Processing the film by commercial means was risky as was their distribution. Distribution was strictly private. Denmark was the first country to legalize pornography in 1969, which led to an explosion of commercially produced pornography. It continued to be banned in other countries, and had to be smuggled in, where it was sold ‘under the counter’ or (sometimes) shown in ‘members only’ cinema clubs.”
Well, that wasn’t a terribly long post. Which is good, since the “history” section of Wikipedia’s ‘Pornography’ page isn’t very long either. We hope you learned a little more about the seedy underbelly of print and cinema today while browsing pictures of some of the hottest welds on the planet. We’ll see you tomorrow, when pictures interspersed with original copy will be on the menu.
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