Mother has been staying here, and we seem to be getting on a good deal better. I have been subjecting her to a good deal of sexual enlightenment and she seems to have stood up to it very well. There was a rather absurd dream I had the other night in which I asked mother's opinion about going to bed with some men and she said: 'Oh very well, but don't go walking about the place naked like you did before.
— Alan Turing Modern

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From a handwritten letter after his conviction for "gross indecency".

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Post-1952

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https://vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/grounding-api-redirect/AUZIYQGB2ZLEKaAvd…

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