Lesbianism, logically

One evening in Carvoeiro last week, I was telling one of the other grad students (an American girl called Emily, who's just finished Part III at Cambridge) about a memorable logic exercise I'd done in my first year as an undergraduate. The story goes that lesbianism was never made illegal in Britain (unlike homosexuality between males), because Queen Victoria refused to believe it happened. "Only men admire only women," she apparently declared, and refused to sign the bill.

But here's the thing: she almost certainly ( didn't mean that. )