Rex, now living in London, fears the consequences after his former lover is arrested, before being rescued by a magazine called Health & Efficiency.

Rex describes his relationship with a man he met in 1947 when he was 19. The man, who was 32, had been, on account of his good looks and other 'assets', a guest at numerous country house weekends, where, in one case, both butler and footmen served the meals totally nude, with their genitals painted gold. After discussing the play, Pygmalion, Rex's lover offered to transform him into a 'gentleman'. Rex stayed for three years during which time, the other man, being the more dominant partner, arranged for some boyfriend swapping with another couple. Rex would eventually pair off with the other man's younger boyfriend, called John.

Now living in London, Rex heard that his previous lover had been arrested and put on bail. Rex was also interviewed by the police in the flat he shared with John, and was offered immunity if he turned Queen's Evidence, which Rex avoided by being 'economical with the truth'. However, other friends did give evidence and the 'country gentleman' was jailed for seven years for 'corrupting young men'. Rex found this a frightening experience, though a lawyer friend says that he probably escaped any further attention from the police because he smoked a pipe. Also, while nosing about in the flat, the police found copies of the naturist magazine, Health & Efficiency, which featured naked women on the cover, but also naked men inside. Because they only looked at the covers, the police deduced that Rex wasn't implicated in the gay goings-on.

Rex never visited his ex-partner in prison, since he asked Rex not to, but today, that has become a source of guilt. He also finds it scary that the Home Secretary of the time, David Maxwell Fyfe, could even think that he'd 'rid England of this plague' of homosexuality

Teacher, actor, author and tour-guide, Rex was born in 1928, in Dorset. His father was a village butcher, and his mother was a housewife. Having his first homosexual experience when he was nine or ten, Rex went to school in the sea-side town of Weymouth, where he had several more encounters with sailors and men in public lavatories.

Aged 19, Rex began a relationship with an older man, a debonair and cultivated ex-officer, who was part of the 1930s 'country house set', and who also introduced him to the word 'homosexual'. On moving to London, Rex lived with a new partner, John. Meanwhile, the well-set 'country gentleman', back in Dorset was arrested and later convicted for 'corrupting young men'. Rex was also drawn into the police investigation but escaped their close attention.

Rex attended RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, along with John (later Joe) Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, both of whom he knew and liked, though he lost touch with the pair before they became famous (Orton was later murdered by his lover, Halliwell, in 1967). Rex had a few bit-parts in films and worked as a freelance writer for BBC Radio, though for most of his life, he was a teacher His partner John worked for J. Sainsbury's, as did Rex for a short while, though John stayed on at the company.

Rex penned an autobiographically based novel called 'Rid England of this Plague', the title of which is a quote from a 1953 statement from the then Home Secretary, David Maxwell Fyfe, who promised to eradicate homosexuality from Britain. In his later years, Rex was involved with the 'Friends of Nunhead Cemetery' conservation group, becoming a committee member and the author of many of their publications. Rex died in 2017.