An Economist's Sex Diaries
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John Maynard Keyes, the economist associated with the Bloomsbury group who could manage to stay out of the closet during the early 20th century. He sedulously maintained two sex diaries.
One diary:
The first diary is easy: Keynes lists his sexual partners, either by their initials (GLS for Lytton Strachey, DG for Duncan Grant) or their nicknames (“Tressider,” for J. T. Sheppard, the King’s College Provost). When he apparently had a quick, anonymous hook-up, he listed that sex partner generically: “16-year-old under Etna” and “Lift boy of Vauxhall” in 1911, for instance, and “Jew boy,” in 1912.
The other is by sex act:
The other sex diary is more puzzling and, in a way, more informative. An economist to the core, Keynes organized the second sex diary also year-by-year, but this time in quarterly increments.
Each amorous event scrupously rated by quality.