Heck, there was a gay culture right there in the boys’ hostel, where boys dated boys, and sharing abed with another consistently for several nights meant you two were exclusive. Nobody reported and there were no morning-assembly punishments of these “acts”. Whether you shagged boys or girls or both boys and girls, nobody seemed to care. It was as though being sexually active with your fellow boys (I can’t speak for the girls it was a mixed-sex school, by the way) was part of being in the boarding school. When I hear stories about boarding schools that severely penalize homosexual acts between students, where there are even students who act as snitches, ratting out to the school authorities those who they know or suspect are same-sexually active, I shake my head in “I’m not understanding”.īecause – damn! – my school was nothing like that.
