European/American Homosexuality...A Pestilence on Earth

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Keynes’ rejection of the Biblical “sowing and reaping principle” in favour of immediate gratification was not limited to his economic theories, but formed the centrepiece of his deviant sexual lifestyle. Keynes was the chief homosexual protagonist of the Bloomsbury group, which has been described as a “sexual merry-go-round” by biographer Robert Skidelsky.
Arguing that homosexuality was the supreme state of existence, Keynes saw no problem indulging his obsession for little boys. In letters to his homosexual friends, Keynes urged them to go to Tunis, “where bed and boy were also not expensive”, while he himself ranged throughout the Mediterranean area searching out suitable boys for himself and his friends. He was particularly delighted to discover that the poverty and ignorance of North Africa, the Middle East, and Italy allowed him to use English shillings to purchase the bodies of children.
Keynes’ short-term philosophy of life held no place for abstinence, whether financial or sexual. He campaigned to legalize homosexuality as well as drugs and believed that a restructuring of economics was central to that process. As he put it in one of his oft-quoted remarks, “When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years….”

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Quote:The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Quote:By Andrew Roberts12:00AM GMT 04 Mar 2001
WAS Monty gay? The subject has arisen yet again because his biographer, Nigel Hamilton - in the course of publicising a life of the Field Marshal slightly facetiously entitled The Full Monty - has said that Montgomery only repressed his urges because of the two years' hard labour that a conviction for homosexual acts then carried. He has said also that he did not want to reveal his "findings" in his original three-volume life of Montgomery in 1981 because of the "repressive" social attitudes then prevalent.
The "revelations" that Montgomery preferred the company of young staff officers to that of women have been around for a long time, and Hamilton himself referred to Monty's "romantic friendships with young boys" in the original book, specifically the 12-year-old Swiss lad Lucien Trueb "who engaged Monty's affectionate attention". The question Hamilton is really posing now is not whether Field Marshal Lord Montgomery of Alamein was gay, but whether he was a repressed paedophile.
Along with John Pollock's excellent new biography of Kitchener, which dismissed accusations of homosexuality against the great Victorian soldier, this might at last be the time to lay to rest the debilitating myth that the many asexuals who helped build the British Empire were really repressed homosexuals. For if no penetrative sex has taken place, one cannot just assume that a general preference for the company of their sex is proof of any kind of perversion. To adopt the famous French dictum there are three sexes: Men, women and empire builders.
The present Viscount Montgomery, the son of the Field Marshal, has stated that his parents' marriage was "very happy". Historians such as the foremost experts on the subject of sexuality and empire, Professor Ronald Hyam, argue that "the term homosexuality remains a false and vulgar label when applied to individuals such as Kitchener or Montgomery". They add a number of other prominent asexuals of the Empire such as the explorers J H Speke and Wilfred Thesiger and soldiers such as Baden-Powell and General Gordon, who once said that he wished he was a eunuch. These men and thousands of others channelled energy that would otherwise have been dissipated by sexual thoughts and actions into creating enduring imperial institutions.