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Index
Title Page
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Map
PROLOGUE: An Artist’s View: William Hogarth and The Harlot’s Progress
ACT ONE: SEX IN THE CITY
1 ‘Satan’s Harvest’: The Nature of the Sex Industry
2 ‘Ladies of the Town’: The Business of Prostitution
3 Mother Clap and Her Boys: Molly Houses and Others
4 Facts and Fantasies: Moll King and Betsy Careless
5 Winners and Losers: Sally Salisbury and Lavinia Fenton
6 ‘Measuring the Maypole’: The Value of the Sex Industry
Interlude: Elizabeth Canning: Abduction into Prostitution
ACT TWO: THE ARCHITECTURE OF SIN
7 Building on Vice: The Sex Industry and the Creation of Georgian London
8 At Home with Mrs Cornelys: The World of the Masquerade
9 The Rake’s Repose: Coffee Houses and Brothels
10 Grand Seraglio to the Nation: The Bagnio
11 ‘The Reception of the Distressed’: Hospitals and Workhouses
Interlude: Colonel Francis Charteris
ACT THREE: THE TASTE OF SIN
12 Vice Takes Centre Stage: John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
13 Muses, Goddesses and Painted Ladies: Art and Sir Joshua Reynolds
14 The Power of the Past and the Primitive: The New Aesthetics of Sex
15 Visiting Venus’ Parlour: Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hell Fire Club
Interlude: The Murder of Ann Bell
ACT FOUR: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIEWS
16 ‘Children of Larger Growth’: Men’s Attitudes to Women
17 ‘Slaves of a Casual Lust’: Women’s Attitudes to the Sex Industry
18 ‘Pretty Doings of a Protestant Nation’: The Campaign Against Prostitution
Postlude: John Wilkes and An Essay on Woman
APPENDICES
1 The Mob and its Vengeance
2 Women as Men
3 Dr James Graham
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright
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