"Still, Addington, like his historical model, cannot subsist entirely on Platonic abstractions. Earlier in his life, he found himself paying a soldier to undress for him. Crewe’s laconic monosyllables evoke the full pathos of the situation: 'That was all. He sat in a chair and watched him undress; made him stand there, turn about. He lived on it for a year.'”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/23/the-victorian-reformers-who-defended-same-sex-desire