Word: paederast
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...most searing experience of his life occurred over two days in November 1917, when he was captured by the Turks and beaten and raped before he escaped. In 1919, submitting a report of this event to British authorities in Cairo, Lawrence altered key details: "Hajim was an ardent paederast and took a fancy to me. So he kept me under guard till night, and then tried to have me. I was unwilling, and prevailed after some difficulty." Years later, he wrote a rather different description to George Bernard Shaw's wife Charlotte, the correspondent with whom he ultimately became most...
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