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S'està carregant… A History of Orgies (1958 original; edició 1958)de Burgo Partridge
Informació de l'obraA history of orgies de Burgo Partridge (1958)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A brief skimming offers some promise of pleasant diversion. There is a long chapter on Francis Dashwood and his abbey doings, much meatier than anything found in Eric Towers' so-called biography - including a description of the Earl of Sandwich's characteristic lope: "as though he were trying to walk both sides of the street at the same time". There is Crowley and his rancid love-ins at his own abbey, where his five year old son, a precociously impertinent drug addict, will, as "beast number two" get what he wants and right now "or else." Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is "a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc." Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through the ages. He begins with the Greeks, who celebrated sexuality at Dionysian festivals, and the Romans, who imported unwholesome brutalities into their orgiastic celebrations. We then learn of the penchant for group sex displayed by medieval popes, the junketings of Restoration England, the aristocratic hedonists of the Hellfire Club and Scotland's notorious Wig Club, the orgiastic tastes of Casanova and the Marquis de Sade, right into the 20th century and the bizarre excesses of Aleister Crowley. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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