Most cadets are not prepared — at least not mentally — for the initiation ceremony at the Her Majesty’s Military Academy for Muscular Gents. Its homoerotic nature was repellent to most well-bred young
gentlemen, and even the most buff scion of the British upper-crust could not pull off an outfit consisting of Graeco-Roman diapers and plimsolls.
That would be done for them.
You can’t prepare for that… well not publicly…