One summer early in Peter’s teen years, his mother sent him to stay with his Aunt Emily, who ran a boarding house for young men in the north of England. Peter was quite excited, both at the novelty of the trip and at the prospect of being more “on his own” for the summer. He had onlyrecently discovered the boyish pleasures of masturbation, and he waslooking forward to having opportunity to explore them out of thesupervision of his parents. Little did he know that his mother’ssuspicion of his secret activities was the prime motivation for sending
