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Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum
Blacklaw writes "Auction house Christie's is planning to sell offprints of Alan Turing's early work for an estimated £500,000 — and the fight has begun to raise the money so UK codebreaking museum and charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of a modern 'universal computer.' If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."
Couple of points, he was a man in his early 40's - he was arrested when called the police on a teenager he picked up at the cinema and invited back to his house for sex. He knew that he would be arrested for his admission of sex with the young man; this suggests to me it was something more serious than just theft that he was reporting. I'd guess he was being blackmailed by foreign service agents, but it's a guess, it's certain that something doesn't add up in the reports that I've read. If it were a girl of the same age it wouldn't have been illegal, but he would have been shunned by most of society at the time for preying on such a young girl outside of marriage (again my opinion). He was clearly at risk of falling for a "honeytrap". I don't think he would have kept his job had be been caught picking up teen girls.
Second point he was probably bisexual from what I've read of his relationship with the woman he got engaged to. Reports say that he was out as a homosexual when he was working during the war, but his wife spent her time with him at work and outside of work too and yet still didn't know until he told her after they were engaged; so he can't have been overt.
Third, he chose hormone therapy as a "softer option" compared to prison so he wasn't forced, per se, to have hormone therapy. As a rather accomplished chemist the effects of such therapy would probably have been well understood by him. His choice of the hormone therapy suggests that he felt in some way that he needed treatment; maybe he too wasn't happy that he had a proclivity for teenage boys, maybe not.