City of Sin
City of Sin If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. For over…
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City of Sin
If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh.
In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17th and 18th centuries, London has always traded in the currency of sex.
Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans