ABSTRACT
This chapter is composed of texts which deal explicitly with sex between men, drawn from diverse genres, including letters, an edition of classical erotica, anonymous pornography and published poetry. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first deals with sodomy and sadomasochism (primarily birching, known on the continent then as the English vice), the second with texts which have boys and youths as their objects of desire, and the third with the fetishistic conceptualization of working-class youths and foreign boys.
