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I read it as a swipe at the non-consensual buggery that was de rigueur at top English schools. I looked at Wikipedia about Fleming’s schools and Eton and Sand
by tezza 4y ago
I read it as a swipe at the non-consensual buggery that was de rigueur at top English schools.
I looked at Wikipedia about Fleming’s schools and Eton and Sandhurst werelisted there… archetypical venues for that ingrained behaviour.
Fleming in that section of the article was highlighting that he personally had some axes to grind but kept them firmly out of his novels.
I don’t think paying for sex quite has the sting
- jgrahamc 4y agoThis is Fleming writing not Le Carré.
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- nemo44x 4y agoHe was in the war though. The majority of guys who fought probably lost their virginity during the war to a prostitute. You're facing death every day, you might as well.
- DaedPsyker 4y agoHe was but he wasn't a front line soldier, as far as I know his role was initially bureaucratic, then later operations planning.
- RajT88 4y agoIn period fiction, I have seen a few times a father or other older male taking someone to a prostitute to lose their virginity. Common enough that it can't come from nowhere. Sometimes they watch. It is almost always shown as traumatic. The buggery angle is also viable.