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THREAD: The creepy obsession guilters & select "reporters" have with two retail books seized from NL in 1993, as gifted to MJ years prior (out of 1000s of non-evidential items seized from 93-04) only highlights their own seemingly perverse mindset.

Here's a detailed analysis.
A week before jury selection, Dimond "through a source or two" learned that "The Boy: A Photographic Essay" was seized in 1993.

She ran headline w/ video proclaiming it to be "child erotica" according to "connoisseurs on the Internet"🙄A claim that was never made in open court.
In the story, Dimond uses an interview w/ retired NYPD investigator to bolster the claim that this mass-published, commercially sold book was somehow "child erotica."

But the involved law enforcement investigators never classified it as such beyond TV publicity & pretrial spin.
There are state & federal cases dating back to the 80s where "child erotica" was distinguished from CP & used as a contributing component in a suspect's investigation. The erotica was distinctively noted during search warrants & seizure summaries.

It never happened in MJ's case.
Another famous face in the skewed perception comes from Bill Dworin (a guilter fav including his baseless Chandler claims).

Dworin appeared in another TV hit piece during jury selection and said the book would "become child erotica" IF a person had sexual interest in kids.
When Sneddon submitted these books to court in 2005, he omitted a 3rd photo book from the same search w/ boys AND girls playing.

By way of omission (including every other innocuous picture and book at NL) Sneddon tried arguing that the two books demonstrated MJ was boy-obsessed.
In TS' motion for books he cites Memro (95) where non-sexual pics "in context of possession" inferred sexual attraction to boys.

But in Memro's case, Menro CONFESSED to wanting to have sex w/ boy(s), disrobe them & other evidence.

MJ's case had nothing beyond two retail books.
In 2005, Dimond purchased copies online. She referred to them regularly & loaned to Nancy Grace for her shows.

On CourtTV, Grace went as far as to refer to the book as "child porn" while holding it to the camera & on HLN said she feared she'd be arrested, while doing it again.🤷‍♂️
In 2016 (fake "police files" by RO) headlines egregiously claimed the books were CP found at NL. Any CP would've been an immediate arrest by FBI & new charges filed.

In the purest insane example of media stupidity, here is a headline claiming the book was CP, and also on Amazon.
The book reignited in 2019 amidst LN, notably from Jacobshagen in a series of impossible tabloid stories. He suddenly claimed MJ gave him an scandalously inscribed copy (years after it was seized from NL).

Like Nancy Grace, he suggested it was CP—while showing it to the cameras.
Dimond was on the same special as Jacobshagen, but instead of rebutting what she knows was a forged book by Jacobshagen she joined in to flaunt her own copies of these books.

Interestingly, they apparently cut this segment out of the aired special but did use it in teasers.
A commonality is how guilters seem to gravitate to the same pages.

Dimond has giant bookmarks to flip right to the most "controversial" pages for showing.

Jacobshagen flips to similar pages & on camera "discovers" circles drawn around boys' backsides for added grossness factor.
Guilters spam the same images & excerpts endlessly while claiming there are "hundreds of naked & suggestive photos."

A Photographic Essay is 232 pages & over 400 photos.
Boys Will Be Boys is 258 pages & 360 photos.

Both feature dozens of photographers; "slice of life" photos.
So while Sneddon, Dimond, Gace, Jacobshagen and the collective guilter society hand-select very particular photos to imply illicit purposes, healthy humans instead gravitate toward the majority of mid-century photos that candidly capture universal kids studying, playing, working.
"The Boy: A Photographic Essay" was sold globally in magazines and newspapers from 1964 through the mid-1970s and was reprinted 4-6 times.

It featured photos from many countries including in promotion of sportswear and companies like Donmoor-Isaacson (American knit shirts).
Many film memorabilia collectors will also recognize the book for its large series of photographs taken during the filming of the original, extremely popular Lord of the Flies film from 1963.
The book was well-reviewed by respected editors and clubs, who applauded the variety.

McSherry: "It catches the joy & innocence of boyhood...all over the world. If the adult would like to 'steal away from the world and it's distractions' sit down with this wonderful book..."
This book appeared in university libraries and was also sold at book fairs. It was available in a variety of traditional brick-and-mortar shops including chain stores like Brentanos' and Doubledays'.

It was as commonplace in the 1960s-1970s as any specialized photo essay book.
While guilters say these books are "common among pedos" they neglect to mention that troves of actual criminal materials are found alongside them whenever such books are found in pedo raids.

In MJ's case every raid from 1993-2004 and the FBI scrub of hard drives yielded nothing.
While Bill Dworin insinuates the books may be deemed "child erotica" depending on owner, in MJ's case everything found was exculpatory.

In '95 Dworin posed as a pedo to catch one; that raid found 36 CP & 45 child erotica pics.

In MJ's case, 0 found despite massive raid efforts.
Guilters say MJ kept these books for sexual reasons & had them locked away for secrecy.

In fact the books were unmoved for years, stored w/ other items in a cabinet that he freely gave staff access to. He never moved them or changed the locks even two years after Blanca left.
To underscore a guilter's mindset:

In 05 Dimond read the book's sleeve: "innocence & joy..carefree abandon..the flower of youth."

Her "CSA Dr." pandering to her, interpreted this as "speaking to [people] who want to to deflower these boys."

MJ wasn't the problem, they are.🤮
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