Date: Jan. 31st, 2022 09:17 pm (UTC)
oursin: Picture of Fotherington-Tomas skipping, with words subversive male added (Subversive male)
From: [personal profile] oursin
sports in girls' boarding schools were partly introduced as a way to divert students' energies away from "unnatural desires"

Or because they were modeling themselves on C19th boys' schools which were making them play rugger and soccer to exhaustion to (ideally) prevent them either abusing themselves or one another....
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