Speaking of sci-fi writers, I’m one of those who believes Arthur C. Clarke moved to . . . was it Sri Lanka / Ceylon . . . in order to indulge his fondness for boys and very young men.
He wouldn’t be the first Brit to do that!
Seems to be the case, from Wikipedia
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Clarke never remarried, but was close to a Sri Lankan man, Leslie Ekanayake (13 July 1947 – 4 July 1977), whom Clarke called his “only perfect friend of a lifetime” in the dedication to his novel The Fountains of Paradise.[a] Clarke is buried with Ekanayake, who predeceased him by three decades, in Colombo’s central cemetery.[44] In his biography of Stanley Kubrick, John Baxter cites Clarke’s homosexuality as a reason why he relocated, due to more tolerant laws with regard to homosexuality in Sri Lanka.[45] In 1998, a British newspaper reported that he paid Sri Lankan boys for sex, leading to the cancellation of plans for Prince Charles to knight him on a visit to the country.
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