The Independent - London, April 29th, 1995
Sociologist and writer Alisdare Hickson has inadvertently compiled the funniest book of the year. He wrote to 5,000 distinguished personages trawled from the pages of Debrett's and Who's Who, asking for their memories of homosexual encounters at public school. Some returned the letters defaced with remarks like "bugger off" and "you prurient shit . . . at my school you would have been done." Other were happy to reminisce. Until about 1860, schoolboys were allowed to fondle each other in peace. Master-pupil relationships too could be passionate - Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India and sampler of du...
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