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“I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation” Oscar Wilde |
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The Oxford hard man who liked to dress up in his mothers clothes whilst he had sex. |
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The Oxford don who loved two young men to beat his bare bottom with their belts. |
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The musky, spicy smelling, large breasted Jewish undergraduate who wanted lots of anal sex and who always seemed so impossibly sad. |
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The academic sisters who liked to tie Joe up. |
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Vicious knife fights and winning a game of Russian roulette. |
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A close encounter with Mr Ronnie Kray. |
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A fortune found and lost all in one day. |
The First Fix of Horse: |
| Life, as you know it, stops in a silent rush of new blood. A moment of pure bliss, quiet beatitude. A sublime tranquillity which will last forever. Heroin has arrived.
Sure, there is the near-painful, glorious ecstasy of sexual release. There are the all too brief and few moments of rapture that come, unbidden and unexpected to any human life and then
there is the rocket propelled, super sensuality of speed and cocaine but....there is something more....there is heroin. William Burroughs reckoned, in his book ‘Junky,’ that heroin could suspend the aging process, stop cells dying, and keep you looking young. All these things then: eternal youth, unimaginable euphoria and perfect peace. So what does it cost? |
“Joe South gives no excuses. This is an honest and moving story about someone who had the courage to turn his life around.”
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“Being Born With A Penis Is Like Being Handcuffed To A Maniac For Life” Kingsley Amis
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| After spending a year locked up in the then notorious M3, a double locked ward in the city’s
Warneford Hospital, in the enforced company of the mad academics of the University, he became hopelessly addicted to heroin, cocaine and methedrine.
During this period most of his friends died as a direct result of their drug consumption. He says, “Heroin, sex, they were ways of controlling my
imagination. A way of not acting out on my terrifying feelings. My sensitivity drove me like a mad thing and it hurt me too. Every day I hurt”.
Much later, and on the run from the law, Joe fled to Wales where he began to shake off his habit. Drugs and alcohol no longer provided the pain relief that he required and were now presenting him with more problems than they solved. During his rehabilitation he built, by hand, without the benefit of electric power or running water, a five bedroomed house. Later, now clean and determined to repay his debts to society, he founded, built and ran a successful treatment centre and helped many people get well. Joe was supported throughout by Princess Diana, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Lady Macmillan. (The rehab was featured in BBC2’s Your Life In Their Hands series in 1994) Here he meets his soul mate in Hilary and helps her to establish the first drug-free treatment unit for the emotionally ill in Great Britain.
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