W. Somerset Maugham almost comes out and says clearly why his stand-in Philip in "Of Human Bondage" isn't screwing the awful love interest when she moves in with him because she's destitute. She repeatedly calls it "unnatural" that he won't. And WSM was, of course, gay.
#gay #books
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