The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie: Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.Holloway, Robert
History
The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie: Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.
Holloway, Robert
Trials (Sodomy) -- England
It seems the greater part of these reptiles assume feigned names, though
not very appropriate to their calling in life: for instance, Kitty
Cambric is a Coal Merchant; Miss Selina, a Runner at a Police office;
Black-eyed Leonora, a Drummer; Pretty Harriet, a Butcher; Lady Godina, a
Waiter; the Duchess of Gloucester, a gentleman’s servant; Duchess of
Devonshire, a Blacksmith; and Miss Sweet Lips, a Country Grocer. It is a
generally received opinion, and a very natural one, that the prevalence
of this passion has for its object effeminate delicate beings only: but
this seems to be, by Cook’s account, a mistaken, notion; and the reverse
is so palpable in many instances, that the Fanny Murry, Lucy Cooper, and
Kitty Fisher, are now personified by an athletic _Bargeman_, an
_Herculean Coal-heaver_, and a deaf tyre Smith: the latter of these
monsters has two sons, both very handsome young men, whom he boasts are
full as depraved as himself. These are merely part of the common stock
belonging to the house; but the visitors were more numerous, and, if
possible, more infamous, because more exalted in life: and _these
ladies_, like the ladies of the petticoat order, have their favorite men;
one of whom was White, a drummer of the guards, who, some short time
since, was executed for a crime of the most detestable description with
Hebden an Ensign. White, being an universal favorite, was very deep in
the secrets of the fashionable part of the coterie; of which he made a
most ample confession in writing, immediately previous to his execution;
the truth of which he averred, even to his last moments; but it is
impossible to give it literally, for the person who took it, in the
presence of a magistrate, said that the recital made him so sick he could
not proceed.
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