After half an hour’s discussion, Augusta began to see just how rigid was her own society, how narrow were people’s s****l options, how constrained and repressed were s****l desires. She was rather shocked when one of the girls began to ask about brothels. All of them seemed to know exactly what facilities were on offer for women on the island who required males for their satisfaction, or even simply to experience something different. When Augusta had to admit that the only brothels in England, as far as she knew, were those that catered to males, that it was exclusively women who were prostituted, the class seemed genuinely bewildered. She tried to explain that whatever people might actually prefer to do, the great weight of public opinion was against same-s*x relations, and that in additi
