A History of Orgies
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.
A History of Orgies
July 15, | Author: vulgarmilk | Category: Aphrodite, Dionysus, Happiness & Self-Help, Ancient Greece, Hedonism
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A HISTORY OF ORGIES
A History of Orgies by Burgo Partridge
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CONTENTS Page
Chapter
Preface
7
One
The Greeks
Two
The Romans
Three
The Middle Ages and
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Puritan and
Five
The Medmenhamites and
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The Eighteenth Century on
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The Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index
Victorians
the Continent
PREFACE An
orgy is an organized blowing-off of steam; the expulsion of hysteria accumulated by abstinence and restraint, and as such tends to be of an hysterical or cathartic nature. Every kind of restraint produces its tensions. Man is in the awkward position of possessing both civilized and animal
which have somehow to be reconciled, usually to the disadvantage
Poisoned legacy of the Bloomsbury Set: How one woman is haunted by the tragic lives of her friends - the four dazzling sisters descended from those bohemian artists notorious for their sex lives
Bohemian: Amaryllis Garnett, pictured in Italy in aged 15
As I got off the bus on my first day at grammar school, I noticed an ancient dark-brown Rolls-Royce driving up. Behind the wheel was an arty-looking woman with a scarf tied round her head, wearing a wild, colourful, clashing mixture of gipsyish prints.
Beside her sat a fair-haired year-old girl in a new school uniform. The woman was artist and writer Angelica Garnett, and the girl was Amaryllis, her eldest daughter.
Most of us young girls from Huntingdon had never seen a Rolls-Royce before, especially one driven by a woman. We giggled and stared at this highly unusual sight. Whoever was this descending in our midst?
Angelica, who died on May 4 aged 93, was the niece of writer Virginia Woolf and the illegitimate daughter of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
They were all part of a collection of writers, painters and intellectuals called the Bloomsbury Set — now known almost more for their bohemian lifestyle than
;oisoned legacy of the Bloomsbury group
On my first day at grammar school, as I got off the bus, I noticed an ancient Rolls-Royce driving up. Behind the wheel was a singularly arty-looking woman and beside her sat a fair-haired eleven year old girl.
The woman was artist and writer Angelica Garnett and the girl was Amaryllis, her oldest daughter.
Angelica, who has just died aged 93, was intricately connected to the Bloomsbury Group. The illegitimate daughter of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and niece of Virginia Woolf, she was only a few days old when novelist David Garnett, 26 years her senior and her father’s gay lover, announced that one day he would marry her.
Nobody took much notice at the time but he duly made her his second wife and their relationship, which produced four daughters in three years, has passed into gasp-making legend.
Back in , when Amaryllis and I first met and became classmates and friends, none of this was known, at least not to the general public. Even so, it was immediately apparent that Amaryllis was very different from the rest of us and not only in the matter of her unusual name.
For one thing, both of her paren
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