Beggar's Benison
Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggar's Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow - and St Petersburg. As a toast The Beggar's Benison was drunk at aristocratic dinners in London as a coded reference to sex, and the Prince of Wales (later George IV) became a member. In Edinburgh, also, the Wig Club (1775) gave the elite of the Scottish Tory establishment a forum in which to dine, gamble and venerate a wig supposedly made of the pubic hairs of the mistresses of Charles II. Both clubs flouri…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85790-630-4
- EAN: 9780857906304
- Produktnummer: 14999887
- Verlag: Birlinn General
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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