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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… to be toiled and torn by the horns of their antagonist. After having guarded you against the evil influence of your own sex, I cannot conclude without throwing in a word or two concerning the Ladies. But that I may not be thought unmannerly …
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… bore gridirons, the insignia of the club. Hedonistic clubs could be more inventive still: the Beggar's Benison, a sex club that operated around St Andrews in Scotland and spawned imitators in Scotland and elsewhere, used phallic-shaped … Kit-Cat Club and the Theatre’, Review of English Studies 7 (1931), p. 56-61. 7 . David Stevenson, The Beggar’s Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and Their Rituals (East Linton, UK: Tuckwell Press, 2001). Political and …
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… punchbowl played a material role in generating encounters marked by good fellowship. 4 . Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (London: Atlantic, 2006) This kind of sociability was, arguably, distinctive …
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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… to coffeehouses in order to ply their trade. This was particularly true for those coffeehouses that served as spaces for sex workers. 7 Nevertheless, the Addisonian ideal of polite coffeehouse sociability was a predominantly masculine one, …
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