buffer-overrun

In Alan Turing: the Enigma, I felt like Hodges glossed over (or maybe was unaware of) important details about the practice of male homosexuality in post-war Britain.  Reading between the lines, it seems like there were very specific rules for random hookups.  Rules about where you meet, where you have sex, what kind of sex you have, and what kind of gifts are allowed.  And that the rules were constrained by both criminalization and by stigma.  And in a situation with a large disparity in age, class and wealth, one of the things the rules did was allow the younger man to inhabit a grey zone between homosexual and sex worker, without really identifying as either.  And it really seems like Turing flubbed every single one of these rules in his relationship with Arnold Murray.  It’s almost farcical, like The Absent Minded Professor Goes to the Bathhouse.  When Turing was like, “Do you wanna come back to my place and talk about math?” was that romantic or was it inappropriate boundary-pushing?  It is impossible to tell from what I’ve read.

The more I read about Turing, the more convinced I am the movie is going to make me mad.  I don’t care if they have a sex scene.  I mean, based on Turing’s weirdly detailed confession (which by the way was also used against Murray), it wouldn’t be the sex scene that people are imagining anyway (with soft lighting and tangled legs in missionary position).  But, so many quotes from writer, director, actor, etc. seem to be about not muddying a tragic story with teh pr0n, and I feel like they are missing the fact that whether or not Turing was being punished for homosexual identity (as part of the conflating of homosexuality and treason after Burgess and Maclean defected) the thing he was arrested for was homosexual acts.