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Oh yes, for a long time in the UK, the percentage of males whose first sexual experience was with another male was sort 30%. It dropped when the gay rights movement took off.

Although they were aware of homosexuality, and likely to have practised it, don't pretend they were OK with homosexuality. They viewed it as something that one should grow out of. That there was something unnatural about grown men doing it. That it wasn't possible to have a real same-sex relationship. That it was a unseemly, unnatural thing.

If Turing had been inviting random women to his house he fancied (which would have happened to lots of other men in his position), it would not have been nearly as much of a problem.

Turing didn't turn off his homosexuality and settle down in a nice fake loveless marriage (with a woman) and keep up appearances.



Hodges biography suggests that the attitude of the US security agencies may have been a factor in identifying gay men as security risks post war.

Alan Turing, The Enigma, pages 496 onward, several UK men suddenly removed from secret work in early 50s.


The American military has always had a very strange sexuality - on the one hand, "don't ask don't tell", but on the other, at Abu Ghraib and other places, the first thing they do as soon as grown-up supervision's back is turned, is sexually abuse male prisoners, and photograph it and share it. The norm seems to be, rigidly suppressed latent homosexuality.


Right, but it was eccentric while Turing was in favour, not anything for anyone to get upset over.




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