I should have said in my very first post that the title of my blog is 100 per cent stolen, no imagination added. So my thanks are due to Prof B. R. Burg, from whose essay on early Stuart attitudes to homosexuality I lifted it. And even more to my friend Lee O’Brien, who knew I would love the phrase, and sent me the link.

And my guess is, that this may be my very last post to cite the Journal of Homosexuality. Although you never know…