He becomes a writer and playwright, putting on a successful farce about the groundnut scheme; then becomes a Fleet Street journalist for the Daily Mail: "I was forced to be deceitful, living one life during my working hours and another when I was free."

Wildeblood describes the "homosexual world, invisible to almost all who do not live in it", of private clubs and public houses.

Wildeblood quotes from a 25 October 1953 article in the Sydney Morning Telegraph about a "Scotland Yard plan to smash homosexuality in London", which "originated under strong United States advice to Britain to weed out homosexuals – as hopeless security risks – from important government jobs."

This I could not have done if I had taken the obvious line of defence and denied everything.Wildeblood writes of support by his parents; a taxi-driver who took him to the magistrates' court; and the public, who applauded Lord Montagu and booed McNally and Reynolds; and later the kindness and tolerance of his neighbours.

He quotes a Sunday Times editorial, which states the law "is not in accord with a large mass of private opinion."

Wildeblood writes of the poor conditions in prison, with blocked toilets, unheated cells, and lack of genuine access to education.

After his sentence, Wildeblood attends a debate at the House of Lords, where various suggestions for reforms are ignored by the government spokesman.

[3] However, James P. Whyte Jr., writing in the American Bar Association Journal, wrote that Wildeblood "fails to recognize the role of the family in civilized society and the necessity for laws which, while they may not directly protect the family, recognize it as the best foundation for an ordered society.