![]() From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17thand 18thcenturies, London has always traded in the currency of sex. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. ![]() As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter abounds in great obscenities'. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. ![]() If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. ![]()
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