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Burgo Partridge, son of Bloomsbury leading lights, Ralph and Frances Partridge, coolly and with learning tells the story of the social phenomenon of the orgy. The dictionary definition is "a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking etc" and Partridge tells precisely what that has meant in the various societies that have left records. The book starts with the Greeks, who celebrated sexuality at Dionysiac festivals and at temples to Aphrodite, and the Romans who imported brutalities into their orgiastic celebrations. In modern times orgies were a rebellion against strict sexual codes. The reader learns of the taste for group sex displayed by some medieval popes, the junketings of Restoration England, the aristocratic hedonism of the 18th century Hellfire club, Scotland's notorious Wig club, the orgiastic tastes of Casanova and the Marquis de Sade, down to the 20th century and the excesses of Aleister Crowley and Rasputin, "the mad monk".

About the Author :
Burgo Partridge was an author and the son of Ralph Partridge and Frances Marshall.

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In this provocative book, a first history of the subject and long out-of-print, Burgo Partridge coolly and with great learning tells the story of one of the most fascinating of social phenomena: the orgy. The dictionary definition of an orgy is "a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking etc," and Partridge explains precisely what that has meant in the various societies that have left records. We start with the Greeks, who celebrated sexuality at Dionysiac festivals and at temples to Aphrodite, and the Romans who imported unwholesome brutalities into their orgiastic celebrations. We learn of the taste for group sex displayed by some medieval popes, the junketings of restoration England, the aristocratic hedonism of the 18th century Hellfire Club. An assiduously detailed (and intriguing) history.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781853754913
  • Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Prion Books Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Lost Treasures S.
  • Width: 136 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1853754919
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 272 gr


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