THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

ANON   Thursday, 11 March 2021

I remember reading an excerpt from the memoirs of I think a roughly contemporary figure (quoted in some sort of scholarly book), about how older boys were having sex with tarts on the school train (possibly in the mail car or something like that?), and something about people slipping and sliding from all the sperm on the floor. I thought i was Addington Symonds, but evidently not. Do you happen to have any idea what/whose that account might be?

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Editor   Friday, 12 March 2021

No, I'm afraid not. The nearest I've heard to that was Lytton Strachey telling in one of his letters of an Eton school tart who went to the lavatory as soon as the school train departed so that he could receive every boy there in turn before the train arrived.