Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing
edited by Ian McCormick.
Contents with selected quotations
A man and a fribble (1789)
ANATOMIES
Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease (1708)
A Treatise of Hermaphrodites (1718)
Eunuchism Displayed (1718)
A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites (1741)
CRIMES and PUNISHMENT
The Fall and Great Vices of Sir Francis Bacon (1621, 1729)
Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven (1631, 1699, 1708)
The Case of John Atherton (1640, 1710)
The Trial and Conviction of several reputed sodomites (1707)
A Notorious Gang of Sodomites (1709)
The Trial of Lord Duffus for Sodomy(1742)
Thomas Rodin ... for attempting sodomy(1742)
Trial of William Brown (1742)
The Trial of Mother Clap(1742)
The Trial of Gabriel Lawrence(1742)
The Trial of George Kedger(1742)
The Trial of Thomas Wright(1742)
The Trial of George Whittle(1742)
Proposals for castrating criminals (1731)
‘This will cool the heat of those that are guilty of rape and sodomy’
A Dissertation upon flogging (1735)
This lucubration then shall explain wherein the art consists, enumerate the
wonderful uses of it, and give some account of the most remarkable professors.’
Mr Swinton accused of sodomitical practices (1739)
‘Mr French, I am sorry to find the firm friendship, which has subsisted so long
between you and me, is about to be broken off ...’
My dear, I’ll give you anything; nay, all that I am worth in the world, if you will not expose me...’
The Wadhamites: A burlesque poem (1739)
Of soft behaviour, pregnant wit:
This lad he instantly thought fit,
To well instruct in ev’ry part,
Of this late revived ART...
A Court Martial (1745)
‘A court martial was held on board the Dutch admiral’s ship at Spithead for
the trial of the 1st lieutenant of one of their ships for committing sodomy on
the boatswain’s son.’
The King versus Wiseman (1748)
This was an indictment for committing of sodomy in the Ano, with a girl of
eleven years of age....’
A Full and genuine narrative of the confederacy (1751)
...You seem to be a Woman Hater and I am much mistaken if you will not turn
out to be a sodomite’ The phrase struck him! He became exceeding anxious to
know its import; she expressed herself in modest enough expressions, but such
as easily conveyed an idea of the thing, which according to my information he
afterward did or at least endeavoured to practise...’
The Trial of Richard Branson (1760)
His left hand being round my neck, he tried to thrust t’other into my breeches,
which I prevented by keeping my hands at the waistband; he then asked
where the road led to...’
Antinous and dancing master (1753).
Representation
Sins of Sodom (1689)
Mundus Foppensis (1691)
For who that loves as nature teaches,
That had not rather kiss the breeches
Of twenty women, than to lick
The bristles of one male dear Dick
The Levellers (1703)
‘there are a sort of monsters of men, called Women-haters’
The Women-Hater’s Lamentation (1707)
The Mollies’ Club (1709)
There are a particular Gang of Sodomitical Wretches, in this Town,
who call themselves the Mollies, and are so far degenerated from all masculine
deportment, or manly exercises, that they rather fancy themselves women...’
Sir Narcissus Foplin (1708)
Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy (1749)
But of all customs Effeminacy has produced, none more hateful, pre-dominant,
than that of men’s kissing each other this fashion was brought over from Italy (the Mother and Nurse of Sodomy) ...’
A Learned Dissertation upon Old Women, Male and Female (1720)
‘To Queen James succeeded another Queen’
A Genuine Narrative ... James Dalton (1728)
How sweet is the pleasant sin?
With a boy of sixteen,
That has got no hair on his chin,
And a countenance like a rose
And a countenance, &c.
Hell upon Earth ... Uproar ... shocking Impieties (1729)
‘Where have you been you saucy Queen? If I catch you strouling and caterwauling, I’ll beat the milk out of your breast I will so...’
‘They also have their walks and appointments, to meet and pick up one another,
and their particular houses of resort to go to, because they dare not trust themselves
in an open tavern’
Lord Hervey (1735)
A View of the Town: A Satire (1735)
The State of Rome under Nero and Domitian: A Satire (1739)
The Pretty Gentleman: or, Softness of Manners (1747)
Two Young Gentlemen from Fanny Hill (1748)
‘the eldest unbuttoned the other’s breeches, and removing the linen barrier ...slipping
then aside the young lad’s shirt ...’
The Destruction of Sodom Improved (1756
Love in the Suds ... Lamentation of Roscius for the Loss of his Nyky (1772)
Of manly love ah! why are men asham’d?’
The Latin Epitaph on Bob Jones (1773)
The Times (1763)
‘Go where we will, at ev’ry time and place,
SODOM confronts, and stares us in the face’
The Fruit Shop (1766)
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SAPPHIC TEXTS
The Man-Woman (1620)
‘Since the days of Adam women were never so masculine’
The Womanish Man (1620)
‘be men in shape, men in show, men in words, men in actions, men in counsel,
men in example: then we will love and serve you’
A Dialogue between Cleonarium and Leaena (1684)
‘Strange rumours run of the Leaenna; how Megilla that rich lady of Lesbos,
carresses thee as a man would do; how is’t for God’s sake? But tell me, is’t true?’
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1696)
Sappho (1695)
‘you must know that her amorous passion extended even to the persons of her own sex’
Blest as the Immortal Gods is He (1711)
The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe (1717)
‘Her sparkling eyes with many vigour shone’
Venus in the Cloister; or, the Nun in her Smock (1725)
Agnes: Ah lud! how you squeeze me in your arms: don’t you see I'm naked
to my smock
Roxana (1724)
Monsieur Thing’s Origin (1722)
The Unaccountable Wife (1723)
Letter from a Young Lady (1725)
The Toast (1736)
Travels in Turkey (1744)
The Progress of Nature (1744)
A Spy on Mother Midnight (1748)
The History of the Human Heart (1749)
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749)
Tonzenie (1758)
Catherine Vizzani (1755)
A Discovery of a Very Extraordinary Nature (1766)
The Adulteress (1773)
Publisher: Routledge, New York and London:
ISBN 0-415-13954-6
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