Foreign News: It's a Man's World

Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, added his historian's pennyworth to a lively London topic: "Most Englishmen do not like women. They have normal sexual desires; they need women as housekeepers; but they do not enjoy feminine society except at bed and board. Hence all our characteristic institutions—clubs, public houses, boarding schools, colleges —though not homosexual, still encourage homosexuality."

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