‘So you’ll apparently be making a regulation in the community we’re founding to the effect that although a lover can (if he can persuade his boyfriend to let him) kiss and spend time with and touch his boyfriend, as he would his son—which is to say, for honourable reasons—still his relationship with anyone he cares for will basically be such that he never gives the impression that there is more to it than that. Otherwise, he’ll be liable to condemnation for lacking culture and moral sensibility.’
Platonic relationships
