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The paradox of juvenile attraction at schools [message #44498]

Wed, 22 August 2007 22:54

timmy

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I thought, pretty much, that my school was unique, except for the representation in "If..." of UK Public Schools of the 1960s in the allowing of expressions of amorous adoration of younger boys, but not real homosexual erotic thoughts harboured towards them.

While Michael Campbell also put this into "Lord Dismiss Us", I had assumed it to have been a fiction.

I am reading "Moab is my Washpot", a rant by Stephen Fry disguised as an autobiography. Uppingham, it seems, also had younger boys "displayed" as fashion accessories, too, just like Epsom did. And it also disapproved if it was felt that you were really queer.

Of course this was a different era.

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Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		The paradox of juvenile attraction at schools By: timmy on Wed, 22 August 2007 22:54
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