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In Seven Pillars, when discussing relationships between young male fighters in the war, he refers on one occasion to “the openness and honesty of perfect love” and on another to “friends quivering together in the yielding sand with intimate hot limbs in supreme embrace.” In a letter to Charlotte Shaw he wrote “I’ve seen lots of man-and-man loves: very lovely and fortunate some of them were.”

The fact is that no strong evidence one way or another has ever emerged about the sexuality of T.E.

Lawrence. He became famously known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Apparently, Lawrence's mother was quite the character.

Lawrence likened the struggle he fought as a child for spiritual independence from his mother to defending a medieval tower that is under constant siege and attack.

This is an excerpt from Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher:

His need to protect his spiritual independence would emerge throughout his life in an obsession with images of siege warfare, of attack and defence: 'I think I'm afraid of letting her get, ever so little, inside the circle of my integrity,' he wrote of his mother, 'and she is always hammering and sapping to come in .

Lawrence's family

In 1915, Will and Frank got themselves killed while fighting WWI in France.
Check event in the WWI Timeline.

Pain was the one thing Lawrence was abnormally frightened of. Claims seemingly given credence by newspaper interviews with privates of the Tank Corps who confessed to having had flogged Lawrence at his solicitation between 1925 to 1934, combined they set the seal on the alleged secret life of Lawrence of Arabia.
However those making these claims only told half the story, deliberately neglecting or downplaying the effect his having been raped had on his thoughts and actions.

The public women of the rare settlement we encountered in our months of wandering would have been nothing to our numbers, even had their raddled meat been palatable to a man of healthy parts. This indignity was more often inflicted on members of the officer class in the belief it robbed them of their authority as a leader of men, sometimes resulting in the victims suicide.

Dr. Jim Hopper Ph.D. The Brits could use some help and thought of the Arabs as potential allies. Asher is a desert explorer and ex-military man himself.
Asher got a lot of heat for this book. Desert explorer Michael Asher found this out the hard way when he attempted to reconstruct Lawrence's camel-trek through the Sinai Desert. He published his version of his adventures in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

(1991)
4. That doesn't mean there won't be ups and downs; that's all part of life.

Thomas Edward (Ned) Lawrence 1888-1935

T.E. stands for Robert Austen Marston, as Marston was Guy's mother's maiden name, so the email explains. Looks like I lost farm and family.

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Lawrence of Arabia ï¿½ Fact and Fiction

Lawrence was notoriously making things up as he went.

As I was refreshing my memory last night, I remembered that there have been questions about Lawrence’s sexuality. Alas in his lifetime there were no counseling services available to men who had suffered sexual assault, they were expected to get on with their lives with a stiff upper lip. Later, some began to justify this sterile process, and swore that friends quivering together in the yielding sand with intimate hot limbs in supreme embrace, found there hidden in the darkness a sensual co-efficient of the mental passion which was welding our souls and spirits in one flaming effort.

A many-sided genius whose accomplishments precluded the privacy he constantly sought, Lawrence became a mythic figure in his own lifetime even before he published his own version of his legend in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In his description of the Dera’a beating, Lawrence wrote “a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me.”

If he was homosexual, though most likely asexual, it wouldn’t add or subtract from his legacy, but in the interests of historical scholarship it’s important to view facts in their proper context.

Not that he ever had much interest in sex at earlier stages of his life, there is no concrete evidence of him having had an intimate relationship with anyone male or female, and he seems to have willingly chosen celibacy as many academics of his class and generation did. Clouds Hill is now owned by the National Trust.