Kevin Brazil

Kevin Brazil teaches at Southampton.

The lads come on and on: The Stud File

Kevin Brazil, 20 February 2020

Bythe time Samuel Steward began to write his autobiography in 1978, at the age of 69, he’d had sex more than four thousand times with more than eight hundred men. Each encounter was carefully recorded in his ‘Stud File’, an alphabetical card index which occasionally included physical mementos. There were records for Lord Alfred Douglas, Steward’s lips landing...

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