Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
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The Dandis Image and the Prekosus Andro
Men who had sexual intercourse with other men were not just regarded as being scandalous, they were criminals. Britain also had a track record of some of the most severe laws about this in Europe. It's alleged that sodomy is a specifically continental vice and associated with Roman Catholic priesthood because they didn't marry.
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