High-seas harlots
2001-07-02 17:39:13+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Via Robot Wisdom comes a review of Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail:
Well into the Victorian era, ritualised mass sex was a regular routine in Her Majesty's forces: the larger ships could accommodate 500 copulating couples in one space, each in hammocks 16 inches apart. The imagination boggles.