article_snippet: In an age before politicians were out of the closet – and when the age of consent for homosexual sex was 21 –
article_snippet: The Whips, in charge of party discipline, also feared The Whips sexuality would be an issue that would return to haunt his sexuality.
article_snippet: his sexuality were right.
article_snippet: Lurid allegations surfaced in a Sunday newspaper in September 1986 claiming he had organised gay spanking sessions with canes and teenage rent boys in he flat – allegations he dismissed as monstrous.
article_snippet: Days later a story emerged of how a naked Arab boy had been found under Proctor’s hotel bed on a Tunisian holiday.
article_snippet: Have you any boys for tying up before you spank two men,’ and then two men started punching his.