#rictor: the text

[plio-cavedeposits]

Sometimes there is, like, a lull in my interest in xmen, but then, then it hits me again, and i remember how julio is one of my favourite characters and probably my favourite character from a pop culture media, and i need to go look at pictures of him and draw 10000 xmen fanarts.

#ela texts #xmen things #rictor #i know it is silly to draw fanart at my old age but sometimes i need to scribble the characters

[outbackera]

it's rictor why are we wasting time with a 4 issue mini series

#*text #IM SURE ILL HAVE FUN READING BUT. ITS RICTOR.

[amphibious-thing]

In the 18th century the roles in anal intercourse were known as “pathic” or “patient” (bottom) and “agent” (top). We often assume that men on the receiving end of anal intercourse were always more stigmatised than their partners, however Rictor Norton suggests this wasn’t necessarily true in 18th century England. Looking at the records of the Old Bailey Norton observes that “the one who is stigmatised and hence given an identity is the one who expresses a homosexual desire, regardless of the sexual role or specific act,” while “the one who submits to the sexual request, even if it involves ‘passive’ sex, does not feel implicated in the desire, hence escapes the stigmatisation and the identity.” (Recovering Gay History from the Old Bailey, p20)

The language used by the Old Bailey is that of one man (the agent) “assaulting” another (the pathic), even in explicitly consensual cases.

For example Samuel Taylor was found guilty of “assaulting John Berry, and committing with him the horrid and detestable Crime of Buggery.” But John Berry was found guilty of “wickedly consenting with Taylor the said unnatural Crime”. Taylor was found with Berry “sitting in his Lap” with “both their Breeches being down”. (Trial of Samuel Taylor & John Berry, 22 February 1738)

William Hollywell was found guilty of “an Assault, with an Intent to commit the detestable Crime of Buggery” on William Huggins, who was found guilty “for consenting and submitting to the same.” A witness discovered them in the “upper part of the Cathedral of St. Paul's” and “surpriz'd them in the following Posture; Huggins's Breeches were down, he stooping very low, so that he could not see his Head, his Shirt was turn'd up on his Back, and his Back-side was bare; Hollywell was standing close by, with his fore Parts to the other's Posteriors, and his Body in Motion”. (Trial of William Hollywell & William Huggins, 4 December 1730)

Sodomy was often presented as an awful thing to do to another man, the agent doesn’t escape stigmatisation for acting the traditionally masculine role as he is seen as “assaulting” the pathic; even in consensual cases.

However we see push back against this view of sodomy as innately an “assault” in Jeremy Bentham’s defence of sodomy Offences Against One's Self. Bentham states plainly that “it is evident that it produces no pain in anyone. On the contrary it produces pleasure”. He clarifies “If either of them be unwilling, the act is not that which we have here in view: it is an offence totally different in its nature of effects: it is a personal injury; it is a kind of rape.”

In fact Bentham argues “it is not the pain that angers them but the pleasure.” He explains; “according to the notions of these moralists and these religionists, that is, of the bulk of moralists and religionists who write, pleasures that are allowed of, are never allowed of for their own sake”.

While Bentham’s defence of sodomy is quite academic and logical Thomas Cannon’s is somewhat more cheeky. Hal Gladfelder describes it as “veering in style from erotic rhapsody, to scholarly essay, to dirty joke.” (In Search of Lost Texts, p30)

Cannon acknowledges the homophobic preconception that people “commonly conceive the P-th-c’s (meaning Pathic’s) Part disagreeable” but counters that the pathic can share “in the accurst Rapture” and enjoy the “Lewdness.” (Hal Gladfelder, The Indictment of John Purser, p45)

Cannon portrays anal intercourse as pleasurable for both agent and pathic in the story of Amorio and Hyacinth. In this tale a “young and blooming Amorio” meets a Lady at a Masquerade, but when he gets her to bed he finds "a Body past Imagination delicate; but of Gender masculine.” Amorio is surprised but not deterred:

Penetrating Love takes the Meaning; and the most lib-d-nous (meaning libidinous) Fire ever felt by our wondring Glower, seizes his panting Frame. He is quickly piloted into a Streight whose potent Cling draws all the Man in cl-mmy (meaning clammy) streams away. Recovering, he perceives the deeper absorpt P-th-c (again meaning Pathic) quite motionless, and thus exclaims; then do you leave me? do you leave your passionate Lover? O ever beautiful Boy, did I taste the Joys, thou only cou’dst give, to know the Bitterness of their Eternal Absence?

Now he endeavours with a gluing Kiss to infuse his own Spirit into the strongly o’er powered Hyacinth; then renews the recalling Plaint; return, fairer Hephestion to the fonder Alexander. Open to Love’s Warmth, thou folded Rose; O let me no longer endure the Horror of existing without you. Hyacinth revives, ardently uttering himself; bounteous Deity, in what a Gulph of Pleasure have I been plung’d; They vie in Raptures, and after more and more Am-ro-s (meaning amorous) Embraces; drop asleep in one another’s Arms.

After they awake in the morning they “love away an Hour or two; then rise and recruit with a long Breakfast.” (Hal Gladfelder, The Indictment of John Purser, p47-50

It’s perhaps worth noting that John Cleland once called Cannon a "white-faced, rotten catamite” and referred to him as “Molly Cannon” so perhaps Cannon is speaking from experience when he mentions the pathic “sharing in the accurst Rapture” and “over and over enj-y’d (meaning enjoyed) urges on the detestable Lewdness.” Although Cleland also accused Cannon of poisoning him “five times with common arsenic” so who knows what went on between Cleland and Cannon. (Hal Gladfelder, In Search of Lost Texts, p25)

While John Cleland didn’t publish a defence of sodomy per se he did include a male-male sex scene in his erotic novel Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. In the book Fanny finds a peep-hole between her room and that next to it. Looking through she observes two “young sparks” having sex. Fanny at first doesn't believe anal sex is even possible based on “the disproportion of parts” but she is soon cured of this disbelief.

First, then, moistening well with spittle his instrument, obviously to make it glib, he pointed, he introduced it, as I could plainly discern, not only from its direction and my losing sight of it, but by the writhing, twisting and soft murmured complaints of the young sufferer; but at length, the first straits of entrance being pretty well go through, every thing seemed to move and go pretty currently on, as on a carpet road, without much rub or resistance; and now, passing one hand round his minions’ hips, he got hold of his red-topped ivory toy, that stood perfectly stiff, and shewed, that if he was like his mother behind, he was like his father before; this he diverted himself with, whilst, with the other he wantoned with his hair, and leaning forward over his back, drew his face, from which the boy shook the loose curls that fell over it, in the posture he stood him in, and brought him towards his, so as to receive a long breathed kiss; after which, renewing his driving, and thus continuing to harass his rear, the height of the fist came on with its usual symptoms, and dismissed the action.

Throughout the scene Fanny represents the perspective of the general public, at first disbelieving the possibility of it, then assuming the pathic to be a “sufferer”, but she soon observes that “every thing seemed to move and go pretty currently on, as on a carpet road, without much rub or resistance;” and that indeed while the pathic was “like his mother behind,” he “was like his father before” (i.e. he had an erection).

Of course the fact that the pathic could enjoy sodomy did not stop bigots from being bigots. Bentham hit the nail on the head when he wrote “it is not the pain that angers them but the pleasure.” William Pulteney in A Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel; Intitled, Sedition and Defamation Display’d, argues that the pathic and agent are “equally guilty” in cases where the pathic finds sodomy enjoyable:

but you seem, pretty Sir, to take the Word Corruption in a limited Sense and confine it to the Corrupter – Give me Leave to illustrate This by a parallel Case – There is a certain, unnatural, reigning Vice (indecent and almost shocking to mention) which hath of late, been severely punish'd in a neighbouring Nation. It is well known that there must be two Parties in this Crime; the Pathick and the Agent; both equally guilty. I need not explain These any farther. The Proof of the Crime hath been generally made by the Pathick; but I believe that Evidence will not be obtained quite so easily in the case of Corruption when a Man enjoys every Moment and Fruits of his Guilt.

Montesquieu argued that sodomy “ought to be proscribed were it only for its communicating to one sex the weaknesses of the other”. (The Spirit of Laws, b12, ch6) Bentham critics Montesquieu, pointing out that sodomy has a no greater “enervating” effect than that of “the regular way of gratifying the venereal appetite”. He argues that to justify sodomy laws for this reason there must be evidence that this is the case:

If the affirmative can be shewn it must be either by arguments a priori drawn from considerations of the nature of the human frame or from experience. Are there any such arguments from physiology? I have never heard of any: I can think of none.

However Montesquieu isn’t arguing that sodomy weakens both men equally but that it weakens the pathic specifically. “This distinction does not seem very satisfactory in any point of view” argues Bentham;

Is there any reason for supposing it to be a fixed one? Between persons of the same age actuated by the same incomprehensible desires would not the parts they took in the business be convertible? Would not the patient be the agent in his turn? If it were not so, the person on whom he supposes these effects to be the greatest is precisely the person with regard to whom it is most difficult to conceive whence those consequences should result. In the one case there is exhaustion which when carried to excess may be followed by debility: in the other case there is no such thing.

(Jeremy Bentham, Offences Against One's Self)

The parts were indeed as Bentham puts it “convertible”. In spite of the legal language of one man ‘assaulting’ another, in reality of molly sex had less strict roles. While one man may very well have had a preference for one role over the other, there were certainly men who enjoyed both roles. For example after meeting at the molly house Muff’s House in White-Chappel Isaac Milton and Jonathan Parrey went to the Three-Nuns where they “lay together”. Milton “would have had him [Parrey] committed Sodomy with him, but he refused it;” then Milton “offered to act the same Crime of Sodomy with him, but he would not suffer him.” (Trial of Isaac Milton, 16 October 1728)

Its also important to remember that anal sex was not the only kind of sex enjoyed by mollies. There are numerous references to fondling; William Brown took Thomas Newton “by the Hand, and (I shewing no dislike) he guides it to his Breeches, and puts his Privities into it.” (Trail of William Brown, 11 July 1726) Richard Challoner and John Branch Harris “put their Hands into each other's Breeches, after which they went out of the House into an Arbour in the Garden”. (Trial of Richard Challoner, 16 October 1728) Richard Manning and John Davis were caught “sitting facing one another with their knees jammed in together,” “kissing one another” with “Manning's hand in Davis's breeches” and “then Davis had his hand in Manning's breeches”, they “kissed one another for some time”. (Trial of Richard Manning and John Davis, 16 January 1745) Of course all of this could be precursory to anal sex but thats not necessarily the case.

There is one reference to fingering precursory to anal sex from the late 17th century. Preparing to “F—” William Minton, Capt Edward Rigby “pulled down Mintons Breeches, turn'd away his shirt, put his Finger to Mintons Fundament” (An Account of the Proceedings against Capt Edward Rigby, 1698)

Norton notes that “all of the available evidence, however, suggest that oral intercourse, fellatio, was rarely practised by the mollies.” However rarely is not never. In 1704 John Norton took hold of John Coyney’s privates “putting them into his mouth and sucking them” (Norton, Mother Clap’s Molly House, p107) In 1735 John Holloway testified that Henry Wolf “pull'd down his own Breeches and mine, and - in his Mouth”. (Trial of Henry Wolf, 22 May 1735)

In reviewing the proceedings of the Old Bailey Norton found “ample evidence that so-called ‘sodomites’ enjoyed an extended range of activities, including kissing, cuddling, love talk, fondling, sexual display, masturbation, oral intercourse, and reciprocal anal intercourse.” (Recovering Gay History from the Old Bailey, p15)

#queer history #mollies #jeremy bentham #thomas cannon #john cleland

[madworldmarvel]

MS. MARVEL WHERE YOU AT?

MARVELOUS MAD WORLD, an inclusive Marvel Discord Roleplay, is currently seeking the following characters [ & more - don't be afraid to ask us anything!]

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The Destroyer

The Patriot

Negasonic Warhead

Synch

Blob

Arsenic

Groot

Strong Guy

Iron Patriot

Sam Wilson

Spider-Man

Chamber

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Rictor

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AND ANYONE ELSE that speaks to your heart or is a character you'd love to highlight -

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[thecomicbookbookclub]

It's pride month and that means we will continue to read X-Factor by Peter David, which includes the truly wild romance between Shatterstar and Rictor, who shared the first queer kiss between two superheroes in a marvel comics. The meeting will  be Saturday June 24th 19:00 CEST. New members are always welcome so feel free to join our book club meetings or the other events in our discord server!  

#x factor #rictor #shatterstar #ricstar #marvel #comics #queer #gay #pride month #madrox #x-men

[emmatriarchy]

@defyxoblivion asked:

”They just evacuated the building; something about the fantastic four and Doctor Doom.” Rictor relays all this to Shatterstar while trying to read his text and pull up his pants at the same time, tripping in the process. Julio might not have his powers in this era, but Gav did, and he could help. So they better get out there.

“I’m starting to think we’re never going to get to try that thing I read about online.” At this point? His balls were starting to turn blue.

"We will try it, my love." He said with a little smirk. He was eager to fulfill Julio's every fantasy. And the thing did seem like fun.

"The faster I get out there, the faster I get back." He leaned in to kiss his boyfriend, brief but so eager, cupping his face. "Wait for me," he murmured, reaching a hand down and around to pinch his buttock.

#defyxoblivion #defyxoblivion: julio #gaveedra (muse)

[earthtrembled]

Rictor in X Factor Investigations as text posts part 1/?

#self//good boy with a bad streak

[321walkout]

@dominos @nasa Pepper! lol. That's a famous Double Entendre entering RPO Pizza Party talks on tumblr famous for fan fiction! We will call Texts From Mt Olympus Pepper!

In the RPO Pizza Party we have a circle scale First, Second On Board, Third Firm, and then various degress of contraction public relations management we refer to as RICTORS - such as Abella Danger has 9.5 million on a Rictor scale - that holds back all fan clubs from going to a fourth Pizza Party

[bc-leecomics]

SPOILERS FOR KNIGHTS OF X #1

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Here's a recompilation of most of the Rictor and Shatterstar panels in Knights of X #1

as a plus, turns out Doug and Bei invited them to dinner :)

#rictor #julio richter #shatterstar #wednesday spoilers #xspoilers #knights of x #i haven't read the issue. i just skimmed through it to see THEM #ricstar #i didnt put the ones we've seen in the previews or where rictor is explaining stuff about magic bcs it was mostly text and just tiny ric

[idnegrosupernegro]

Being an earth/plant manipulator in the xmen must suck cuz you don't get to be unique at all like bro there's so many people: rictor, petra, magneto, polaris, rockslide, onyxx, magma, dust, mercury, bling, nature girl, marigold, KRAKOA

Like damn I wanna take credit for this element but I can't cuz fuck yall

#text #I don't feel like tagging everybody so yeah #comics #xmen #x men #magneto #polaris #magma #rictor #krakoa

[coquesne]

An absolutely wonderful essay by queer historian Rictor Norton on gay identity and culture in 18th century England. It’s a bit long, but thoroughly sourced and beautifully written. I ended up reading all 65 pages in one sitting because it was just SO captivating. Norton examines court records and pieces of 18th century British popular culture to paint a full picture of the sort of identity and subculture shared by “sodomites” and “mollies” during this time. He only touches briefly on lesbians and somewhat glazes over bisexuals in favor of a stark homo/hetero binary attraction, but it’s quite informative overall.

Also, if you’re even remotely interested in gay history, check out his website, which is absolutely chock-full of primary source lists and various essays on queer history, queer culture, and queer theory in general. 

#michel foucault #queer history #lgbt history #gay history #lesbian history #bisexual history #british history #18th century #1700s #sociology #primary sources #rictor norton #gay culture #queer culture #mine #history #text #queue

[nonbinaryshatterstar-ia]

not liking rictor is a sickness and i hope everyone suffering gets well soon

#my stuff #text #julio richter #i hate twitter sm sometimes #'oh rictor's so annoying he's so depressed all the time' yeah he has depression. #that tends to do that.

[wlwboomboom]

only now seeing rictor's hellfire gala look and.... is it good? maybe not! but if ric's outfit isn't a mess then what even is the point

#that's his brand babey!!! #hes not afraid to experiment and go for smt a lil tacky and i think that's sexy of him #text #rictor #hellfire gala

[amphibious-thing]

Molly Slang

In the 18th century men who had sex with other men were known as Mollies. Mollies, at least those who lived in London, had their own slang. There were of course common 18th century terms for sex between men. There was sodomy from which we get sodomite, sodomitical, sodomitically and sodomity. And buggery from which we get bugger. While ‘sodomite’ was the word used by the courts and medical texts, ‘molly’ seems to have been the word used by the community.

The early church fathers stigmatised homosexuals as molls or sissies, and secular society called effeminate men molly-coddles and homosexuals mollies; having no other self-referring terms except the even less appealing Sodomite or Bugger, gay men transformed Molly into a term of positive self-identification, in exactly the same way that the modern subculture has transformed Gay (which derived originally from 'gay girl', meaning a female prostitute) into a term of pride and self-liberation.

~ Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's Molly House, p105

The following is an attempt to not only list and define, but also provide an example of each molly slang term in use.

Battersea’d

This ones a bit uncertain but Rictor Norton suggests that it’s “probably a synonym for ‘clapped’” (p62)

Example:

I have seen Men in his back Room behave themselves sodomitically, by exposing to each other's Sight, what they ought to have conceal'd. I have heard some of them say, Mine is the best. Yours has been Battersea'd. — I don't know what they meant by the Expression.

(Trial of George Whittle, April 1726)

Bit a Blow

Norton suggests this is “equivalent to the modern day slang ‘score a trick’.” (p67)

Example:

If they can but procure a young smug-fac'd Fellow, they never grudge any Expence; they are as eager in the Pursuit, as a young Gallant would be in quest of a Maidenhead; and it is remarkable, those effeminate Villains are much fonder of a new Convert, than a Bully would be of a Mistress at any Time, except when Madam has been fortunate, has had a good Night, bit a Blow, and buys two or three Smiles and Kisses at the Expence of a Purse of Gold.

(The Weekly Journal: or, The British Gazetteer, 7 May 1726)

Caudle-Making or Giving Caudle

Norton suggests this was “another term for anal intercourse” from “the Latin cauda, a tail.” (p106) However the term seems to be used in reference to lying-in ceremonies at molly houses. “Caudle” was a “warm drink of sweetened or spiced wine or ale thickened with gruel or other ingredients,” given “chiefly to invalids, expectant mothers, etc., and (formerly) also to those visiting a mother following the birth of a child.” (see OED) So mollies may have literally given caudle as part of the lying-in ceremony.

Example:

yet the public indignation was in some measure for a moment allayed, by the grotesque appearance of the actors:—they were seized in the very act of giving caudle to their lying-in women, and the new-born infants personated by large dolls!

(Robert Holloway, The Phœnix of Sodom, or, The Vere Street Coterie, 1813)

Chapel

A room in a molly house with a bed where one could get married (i.e. a place to have sex). [See definition of marry]

Example:

he keeps a back Room for the Mollies to drink in, and a private Room betwixt that and the Kitchen, there is a Bed in it, for the Use of the Company, when they have a Mind to be married, and for that Reason, they call that Room, The Chappel.

(Trial of George Whytle, 20 April 1726)

The Female Dialect

Molly slang.

Example:

When they are met, together, their usual Practice is to mimick a female Gossiping & fall into all the impertinent Tittle Tattle that a merry Society of good Wives can be subject to. Not long since they had cushioned up one of their Brethren, or rather Sisters, according to Female Dialect,

(Ned Ward, The History of the London Clubs, p28, published 1709)

Festival Night

Masquerade nights held at molly houses. These sometimes involved mock births known as a “lying-in” in which a molly would act out a birth scene with a wooden baby.

Example:

Not long since, upon one of their Festival Nights, they had cusheon’d up the Belly of one. of their Sodomitical Brethren, or rather Sisters, as they commonly call’d themselves, disguising him in a Womans Night-Gown, Sarsnet-Hood, and Nightrale, who, when the Company were met, was to mimick the wry Faces of a groaning Woman, to be deliver’d of a joynted Babie they had provided for that Purpose, and to undergo all the Formalities of a Lying in.

(Ned Ward, Satyrical Reflections On Clubs, p285, published 1710)

Husband

A romantic and/or sexual partner.

Example:

a private Room betwixt that and the Kitchen, there is a Bed in it, for the Use of the Company, when they have a Mind to be married, and for that Reason, they call that Room, The Chappel. - And there he has brought me to several Husbands, as we used to call them.

(Trial of George Whytle, 20 April 1726)

Indorse

Anal sex

Example:

to indorse, as they call it, but in plain English to commit Sodomy.

(The Weekly Journal, 7 May, 1726)

Lying-in

A mock birth ceremony held at molly houses on festival nights in which a molly would act out a birth scene with a wooden baby.

To make themselves as ridiculous as Extravagance and Effeminacy can render them, they sometimes have a Lying-inn, when one of them is plac'd in a Chair, and the others attending with Napkins, a Bason of Water, &c. Susan Guzzle, a Gentleman's Servant, is the Midwife, and with a great Deal of Ceremony, a jointed Baby is brought from under the Chair he sits on.

(James Dalton's Narrative, 1728)

Maiden Name

Sobriquets used by mollies. Often involved a variation of the name Molly or a reference to a molly’s profession. E.g. Moll Irons, Pomegranate Molly, Dip-Candle Mary. (see Norton p92 for more examples of maiden names)

Example:

The Prisoner sold Oranges and for that reason he went by the Maiden Name (as they call'd it) of Orange Deb.

(Trial of Martin Mackintosh, 11 July 1726)

Make a Bargain

Agree to have sex.

Example: 

where they make their Bargains, and then with draw into some dark Corners to indorse, as they call it, but in plain English to commit Sodomy.

(The Weekly Journal, 7 May, 1726)

The Markets

Cruising grounds.

Example:

We hear that near 20 houses have been discover’d, which entertain’d sodomitical clubs; besides the nocturnal assemblies of great numbers of the like vile persons at what they call the markets, which are the Royal-Exchange, Moorfields, Lincolns-Inn Bog-houses, the south side of St. James’s Park and the piazza’s of Covent-Garden, where they make their bargains, and then with draw into some dark corners to indorse, as they call it, but in plain English to commit sodomy.

(The Weekly Journal, 7 May, 1726)

Marry

To have sex

Then they'd go by Couples, into a Room on the same Floor to be marry'd as they call'd it. The Door at that Room was kept by - Ecclestone to prevent any body from balking their Diversions. - When they came out, they used to brag in plain Terms, of what they had been doing, and the Prisoner was present all the Time, except when she went out to fetch Liquors.

(Trial of Margaret Clap, 11 July 1726)

Molly (plural Mollies)

A man who had sex with other men.

Example:

Sukey Haws, being one Day in a pleasant Humour, inform'd Dalton of a Wedding (as they call it) some Time since, between Moll Irons, and another Molly,

(James Dalton's Narrative, 1728)

Molly House

A house or tavern that catered to mollies. Typically served alcohol and often had music and dancing. Usually there was a room where mollies could have sex known as the chapel. Some molly houses took molly lodgers. (see trial of William Griffin, 20 April, 1726)

Example:

Mrs. Clap's House was notorious for being a Molly-House.

(Trial of Gabriel Lawrence, 20 April, 1726)

Molly, Mollied

To flirt with/have sex with another man.

Example:

I said, I never mollied you. My Lord, I never laid my Hand upon him, nor touch'd him; I never touch'd the Man in my Life.

(Trial of Richard Manning, 17 January 1746)

Mollying

Of a man who has sex with other men.

Example:

But they look'd a skew upon Mark Partridge, and call'd him a treacherous, blowing-up Mollying Bitch, and threatned that they'd Massacre any body that betray'd them.

(Trial of Thomas Wright, 20 April 1726)

Molly-Cull

A man who has sex with other men. A “Cull” was “a man, a fellow, a chap.” Interestingly a “Queer Cull” was “a foolish dandy, a fop.” (see Green’s Dictionary of Slang)

Example:

He removed to Beech-lane, where he likewise kept Rooms for the Entertainment of the Molly-Culls, and sold Ale as he did at his other House.

 (Trial of Thomas Wright, 20 April 1726)

Queen

A molly (esp. a promiscuous one). Possibly derived from Middle English “quean” meaning “a bold or impudent woman; a hussy; spec. a prostitute.” (see OED)

Example:

Where have you been you saucy Queen?

(Hell Upon Earth, 1729)

Story, to do the

Sex

Example:

Ned solicited me to do the Story, and would fain have had me to have gone into the Necessary-House with him, for he said, he could not rest till he had enjoy'd me.

(Trial of George Kedger, April 1726)

Trade (esp. unnatural trade)

Sex

Example:

Let the Fops of the Town upbraid

Us, for an unnatural Trade,

We value not Man nor Maid;

But among our own selves we'll be free,

But among, &c.

(But Among Our Own Selves, 1728)

Wedding Night

Sex

Example:

Ned, says he, there's a Country Gentleman of my Acquaintance, just come to Town, and if you'll give him a Wedding Night, he'll pay you very handsomely.

(Trial of George Whittle, April 1726)

General Slang

There were also some general 18th century slang terms that weren’t unique to mollies but was used by them.

Caterwauling

To behave amorously or lasciviously.

Example:

Ah! you bold Pullet, where have you been a catterwauling all this Nigh? I assure you, Priscilla, I've been Hunting High and Low for you, with a heavy Heart which you know is ever at your Command, therefore we'll now go to Bed at some Inn, and Kiss and Coo away the time till Morning as true Lovers ought to do.

(Footpads and Sodomites, 1719)

Make Love

To “pay amorous attention; to court, woo” (see OED)

Example:

Mrs. Clap's House was notorious for being a Molly-House. - In order to detect some that frequented it, I have been there several Times, and seen 20 or 30 of 'em together, making Love, as they call'd it, in a very indecent Manner.

(Trial of Gabriel Lawrence, 20 April, 1726)

Pick Up

To strike up a (usually casual) sexual relationship with someone. “Originally: to engage the sexual services of (a prostitute, etc.)” (see OED)

Example:

I pick'd up two Men, who had no Money, but however they proved to be my old Acquaintance, and very good Gentlewomen they were, One of them has been transported for counterfeiting Masquerade Tickets; and t'other went to the Masquerade in a Velvet Domine, and pick'd up an old Gentleman, and went to Bed with him,

(Trial of Thomas Gordon, 5 July 1732)

Sweet-Heart

A romantic/sexual partner.

Example:

Gregory Turner, who commonly chose me for his Sweet-heart.

(Trial of Thomas Wright April 1726)

Swive

Sex

Example:

We'll kiss and we'll Sw[iv]e,

Behind we will drive,

And we will contrive

New Ways for Lechery,

New Ways, &c.

(But Among Our Own Selves, 1728)

Slang About Mollies

Its unclear if these were used by mollies or simply about them. Some of these are clearly offensive in nature however some may have been used in a more positive or neutral way.

Agent

The top in anal sex

Example:

It is well known that there must be two Parties in this Crime; the Pathick and the Agent; both equally guilty.

(William Pulteney, A Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel; Intitled, Sedition and Defamation Display’d, 1731)

Back Gammon Player

Defined by The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as “a sodomite.”

Usher, or Gentleman of the Back Door

Defined by The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as “a sodomite.”

Bud Sallogh, Shitten P-ck

Defined by The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as “an Irish appellation for a sodomite.”

Buggeranto

Offensive term for someone who engages in buggery.

Example:

We then proceeded and went on to the Change, turn’d to the Right, and Jostled in amongst a parcel of Swarthy Buggerantoes, Preternatural Fornicators, as my Friend call’d them, who would Ogle a Hand­some Young Man with as much Lust, as a True-bred English Whoremaster would gaze upon a Beautiful Virgin.

(The London Spy, part III, published 1703)

Butterfly

Norton suggests it could be “slang for catamite” (p223)

Example:

Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel? Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings.

(Alexander Pope, An Epistle from Mr Pope to Dr Arbuthnot, 1735)

Catamite

The younger partner in a male-male sexual relationship, or more generally a boy or young man who has sex with men. Sometimes used as synonym for pathic. 

Example:

Another Discovery has been made among those infamous Monsters call'd Sodomites, last Saturday, at the Three Black Birds on Temple Backs, where two of those Catamites, one a Baker in St. Phillip's, and the other a Cloth Shearer in Temple-Street, were seen in a Caterwauling Posture in a Room of the House by the Fire-side; but were routed by the People, and narrowly escaped being mobbed. They have both disappeared.

(Ipswich Journal, 8 July 1732)

Gomorrean

Another term for men who had sex with men. Like the more common sodomite it comes from the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In a Word, he is the completest Gomorrean that has been met with for some Time; tho from some papers found in his Pocket, it is no less certain than shocking, that there are many Clubs of these Animals now in Town, who, it is hoped, will soon be exposed to publick View.

(The London Chronicle 4 - 6 Jan 1757)

Madge Cull

Another word for a molly.

Rictor Norton explains that by “the last quarter of the eighteenth century” the term madge cull was used as well as molly. (p184) It comes from a combination of “Madge” a slang term for “the female genitals” and “Cull” slang for “a man, a fellow, a chap.” (see Green’s Dictionary of Slang)

A New Dictionary of all the Cant and Flash Languages (1795) defines “Madge” as “a sodomite” and “Madge Cull” as “a buggerer.”

Madge Cove

Defined by A New Dictionary of all the Cant and Flash Languages (1795) as “a keeper of a house for buggerers.”

Patapouf

Norton suggest this was a synonym for “catamite”. The word was used by William Beckford in 1811; “I would not fly from a nice York patapouf if Providence sent him to me.” (Norton p225) Possibly the etymological root of “pouf”.

Pathic or Pathick

The bottom in anal sex

Example:

It is well known that there must be two Parties in this Crime; the Pathick and the Agent; both equally guilty.

(William Pulteney, A Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel; Intitled, Sedition and Defamation Display’d, 1731)

Patient

The bottom in anal sex

Example

Is there any reason for supposing it to be a fixed one? Between persons of the same age actuated by the same incomprehensible desires would not the parts they took in the business be convertible? Would not the patient be the agent in his turn?

(Jeremy Bentham, Offences Against One's Self, c.1785)

Windward Passage

Defined by The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as follows “one who uses or navigates the windward passage, a sodomite.”

#some of these are obviously still in use #which is interesting in its own way #mollies #molly house #queer history

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