Ian Cobain (Extracted from "Silence and secrecy at school where child sex abuse went on for decades". The Guardian, 18 November 2005)

"For three decades between 1966 and 1995, a number of boys at the school [Ampleforth College] endured sexual abuse at the hands of some of the monks who taught there, assaults that ranged from relatively minor incidents to, allegedly, rape."

[Ed: In ancient Sparta young boys were routinely sent to boot camps where they lived permanently with boys throughout the years of puberty until they became warriors as young men. It was then their "duty" to become practising heterosexuals in order to sire the next generation of Spartan children, so their wives had to practise what modern behavioural psychologists would recognise as standard procedures for treating homosexuals -- such as cutting their hair short and dressing like men in order not to frighten their husbands and only gradually becoming truly feminine. Much the same happened to upper-class English boys in expensive boys-only private boarding schools from about 1850 until fairly recently. A proportion of these boys made homosexuality fashionable at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and greatly influenced the English political, social and artistic establishment for one or two generations. Even those who reverted to normality took a long time to do so, often not marrying until their late 30s or in their 40s. There are signs that homosexuality is at last becoming unfashionable and this will be one contribution to restoring birth rates to population replacement levels in developed countries.]