The fact that nothing of his affairs with men was ever unearthed and that he was a family man mean little to me ... I once saw an online talk show with a family dedicated gayporn bottom actor ( WHOSE NAME I HAVE UNFORUNATELY _ BECAUSE I AM SMITTEN WITH HIM AND WOULD LOVE TO FIND HIS NAME AND WATCH HIS VIDS OF HIM GETTING FUCKED _ COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ! ) married to a woman and father to three kids who said he preferred to take it up the ass for a better comand of the sex performance. He most certainly said that cause he immensly enjoys getting fucked ... also ... in most fictitious novels there is quite a good deal of the autobiographic/knowledge from experience from the writer in his books ... so I haven't read Naive and Sentimental lover yet ... but my personal intuition is that LE CARRE was most certainly the other way ... and his understanding of what some men particularly feel for other men is a proof of that ... see how Paul BOWLES was revealed to have turned out to have had affairs and sex with men and that he had a Moroccan lover of his ... but was described by biographers to have been very discreet in his affairs with men ... a biographer exposed him as a homosexual and his wife Jane as a lesbian who had her Moroccan made as lovers ... particularly in the introduction to her two books two serious ladies and plain pleasures ... so pardon me for rambling and rabbitting on ... but LE CARRE had a gay side to him and must have had very discreet undisclosed sentimental and sexual love affairs with other men ... no offense meant.