The World, The Flesh and Myself
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The World, The Flesh and Myself is the 1962 autobiography of Michael Davidson. It is sub-titled The Life Story of a Lover of Boys. It is the first of two volumes, the second, in 1970, being Some Boys.
The World, The Flesh and Myself opens with Davidson declaring his desires, which he calls paidophile, probably intending to mean pederast and thus paint himself in a more sympathetic light; however by modern standards he would certainly have been considered a paedophile. Davidson sought out young boys and adolescents for sex around London, including public swimming baths and as a result eventually served a prison sentence in Wormwood Scrubs in 1936.
He then became a foreign correspondent, which enabled him to live more securely as a homosexual since he was less likely to be persecuted for his sexual inclinations abroad than in England. He reveals, for example, that when on assignment for the Indonesian government, he was provided with young male companions at official expense. He was able to combine his reporting with an active sex life.
