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Fascinating. I hadn't even bothered to look it up in Rocke, preferring to keep my little potted version, planted many moons ago, growing unmolested in my imagination. the hat-grabbing game may have been derived from those prostitutes Maybe the prostitutes derived the game from the boys? Not that it really matters. I remember (hopefully roughly correctly) reading somewhere that female prostitutes in Victorian London, in certain areas, would cut their hair and dress boyishly to compete with the annoyingly popular boy-prostitutes. Given the feverish pederastic energy of Renaissance Florence, maybe the gals were launching their own #MeToo movement? And, yes, for a man, a rather stark libidinal difference between pursuing and being pursued. I might plant another seedling in the hothouse... An adventurous artisan, bravely battling his way through the clamouring, hat-clawing Scylla and Charybdis, emerging into the sunshine to launch himself at the boy-siren's maddening fascinator. |