One of the most disheartening liability formulas I ever signed was when I was on OT 7 and this guy was getting signatures on a liability petition for masturbation. I felt that had no business being on public lines, it was degrading and humiliating. I didn't care what the guy did to "make up the damage", even the stupid "I looked to see if the briefcases were locked in the storage cubbies behind the double doors" would have been too much. I was (and still am) upset that the MAA would allow or assign this kind of crap.
Idiots.
Mimsey
People have posted a lot about all the shenanigans they were getting into in the late '60s, but I wasn't around for those days, and when I arrived a while later, it seemed like things were getting conflicted and weird, like they had improvised changes ahead of the official ones of '78 and later. For example...
One guy on staff, who was under 18, had earlier been advised by a cop that he could be busted for sleeping with a girl his own age. Now that he was not only a cultie, but staff, that obviously wouldn't do. But nobody in HCO could recall any case of a woman being busted for sleeping with an underage guy, and doubted whether it was even illegal. So from that point forward he slept with adult female staff, and HCO was pleased.
At around the same time, I knew a few women who were offloaded/freeloaded/declared, for being lesbians. This was right before a bunch of antique sex laws were abolished, and though only a couple of dozen lesbians had been arrested in the history of the state, they were deemed to be committing continuous high crimes.
But a course sup with an underage gf was okay, because the gf's parents were both scilons, would not press charges, and could not press charges without committing a suppressive act.
It was weird, conflicted, and seriously fucked up.