THE BRITISH IN INDIA

In the 1890's, Fanny Epstein, from Manchester, ran a brothel.

The brothel was on Bazar Road, in Mumbai (Bombay).

The British in India

"Fanny Epstein blazed a trail from Warsaw to Bombay and Buenos Aires."

From Bombay Brothel Owner to Yiddish Star

Mumbai brothel street.

"A certain number of prostitutes of East European and Russian origin found their way to the sea-ports of India in Bombay, Karachi, Madras, Rangoon etc. via their sojourns in cities like Constantinople, Cairo, Alexandria, Baghdad etc.

"The male procurers or pimps, who were responsible for bringing them hither, belonged largely to the Jewish faith who advised women in Cairo, Alexandria and elsewhere of vacancies in the Indian and Far Eastern brothels, arranging with the brothel-keepers for their reception, if they desired to start in a new country, and often advancing the money for their steamer tickets, if they were short of funds."

Prostitution in Colonial India and Jewish Role

Mumbai brothels.

In the hill town of Simla, the summer capital of British India, one popular hostess was known as ‘Bed and Breakfast’, another as ‘The Passionate Haystack’.

Men often took Indian mistresses - vastly superior in erotic skills to European women, according to the writer and adventurer Richard Burton - and sometimes married them.

Behind the formal dress and polite smiles

British India.

"In the 1880s, the Anglican bishops of India and Ceylon denounced the registration of brothels and compulsory medical treatment of prostitutes on the basis that the suppression of vice was more important than the diminution of suffering caused by that vice. 

"The lock hospitals that specialised in treating syphilis and cantonment military brothels were closed, with an inevitable surge in venereal disease. 

"Soon almost half the British troops were being treated for venereal disease, with an even higher proportion in parts of Bombay. 

"The viceroy Lord Elgin lamented the moves which had led to 'even more deplorable evils', by which he meant an increase in homosexuality.

"The brothels were discreetly reopened."

The British in India



India has always been bisexual.


The famine genocide of 1876-1878

The British treated the Indians with contempt.



Mountbatten liked young Indians.

'50% OF YOUNG BRITS ARE BISEXUAL'

Half of young Brits say they are 'not exclusively heterosexual', according to a new YouGov poll.

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According to the survey, a quarter of those aged between 18 and 39 reported having had a homosexual experience.

This compares to only nine per cent of those aged 60 and over.

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According to psychologist Laurent Bègue, author of Right and Wrong Psychology, the line between homophobia and homosexuality is thin.

I suppose that most of us used to fear gay people.

We imagined that they smelt differently.

We thought that gay people would destroy our society.

We had an image of gay people as being rather foreign and dangerous, like Blacks, Jews, Catholics,  Moslems or Germans.

And then we discovered that our best friend at school was secretly gay, and quite harmless.

And then we discovered that some of our best friends at University were secretly gay, and quite harmless.

And the student, who was the same sex as us, and who had just slept with a married person of the opposite sex from Paris, wanted to be affectionate towards us. 

We were not interested and they departed but we had learnt a bit more about bisexuality

And then one of our professors seemed to imply that all the great men of history were apparently bisexual, from Alexander the Grape to Ronald Reagan.

And then we traveled a bit, and, while traveling on exotic airlines, rich and successful married men would tell us that that they liked girls, but preferred boys.

It is difficult to spot a gay man.

But often they are conservative and like sport and the military.

In Sam Mendes' film American Beauty, a former US marine and convinced conservative makes sexual advances towards the character played by Kevin Spacey.

The marine, who is homophobic, shoots Spacey after his advances are rejected.

Are Homophobes Really Just Repressed Homosexuals?

German Bishop Walter Mixa was violently homophobic.

Now there are widespread allegations that he is totally gay. 

Are Homophobes Really Just Repressed Homosexuals?

American televangelist Ted Haggard is the typical gay homophobe.



Researchers from the University of Georgia carried out an experiment using a device that measured male erections.

A gay scene was shown to males who claimed to be homophobic and to males who claimed not to be homophobic..

80% of the homophobes had an increase in penis size when shown the gay scene.

34% of the non-homophobes had an increase in penis size when shown the gay scene.

Are Homophobes Really Just Repressed Homosexuals?

How many people are gay, or bisexual?

Apparently, the typical 'gay' person is married to someone of the opposite sex.

One recent piece of research, involving over 50,000 people, found that:

 33% of those polled considered themselves to be exclusively heterosexual.

 67% considered themselves not-exclusively heterosexual.

67% is No Minority!

0	Exclusively heterosexual
1	Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2	Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3	Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4	Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5	Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6	Exclusively homosexual

The above research used the Kinsey Scale (above)

A recent survey of 2,516 people in the USA found that:

27 percent of participants had had same-sex experiences.

19 percent of participants indicated that they did not consider themselves heterosexual.

The research, was carried out by Ohio State University and Boston University and was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.