Shocking and Forgotten Historical Sex Scandals

You’re probably familiar with the old expression – “sex sells.” Well, that applies here, as well. People love hearing about the scandalous and licentious side of our past that, surprisingly, often gets left out of history class...
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Source/Further reading:

https://nypost.com/2017/06/23/who-said-sex-sells/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/talatu-carmen/4943290329/
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG231164
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/autobiography-benjamin-franklin/james-ralph
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-09-02-0178
https://assets.brilliancepublishing.com/38c4a341-0bce-48cf-862e-bdfaf591da39
https://picryl.com/media/poems-undated-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Edgar_Sickles.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gettysburg_Battle_Map_Day2.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medal_of_honor_old.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarpersMagazineMrs.Sickles.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarpersMagazinePhilipBartonKey.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sickles_homicide.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarpersMagazineSicklesTrial.jpg
https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/06/remembering-the-vere-street-coterie-a-story-of-gay-community-a-police-raid-and-library-censorship.html
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41etTZeZtYL.jpg
http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-white-swan-gay-brothel-in-vere.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Vere_Street_Gang_at_the_pillory_in_1810.png
http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/vere_street_coterie_S.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TitusOates-pilloried_300dpi.jpg
https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/today-in-gay-history-thomas-white-john-hepburn-hanged-in-newgate-for-buggery-1811/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1222132/Profumo-affair-explained-what-was-Profumo-affair-john-Profumo-Christine-keeler-BBC
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/real-history-profumo-affair-christine-keeler-who-what-happened/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Profumo_1960.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6ltE-ldds&ab_channel=TheTelegraph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Profumo.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harold_Macmillan_in_1942.jpg
https://historicipswich.org/2014/10/27/sheep/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Of_Plimoth_Plantation_First_1900.jpg
http://allfreematerial.blogspot.com/2018/07/thomas-grangera-most-disgusting-lad.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bdd74/the-time-a-pilgrim-got-the-death-penalty-for-having-sex-with-a-turkey
https://historycollection.com/18-salacious-scandals-from-the-golden-age-of-hollywood/
https://www.wehoville.com/2019/04/08/hacienda-park-and-the-origins-of-the-sunset-strip-coronet-apartments-villa-of-vice/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29400426/ann-forrester-talks/
http://the-wanderling.com/brenda_allen.html
http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/timeline/1948-the-arrest-of-hollywood-madam-brenda-allen/
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/seduction-corruption-deception-and-protection-black-widow-pt2
https://calisphere.org/item/4487c27b059cb0b5a2a859ee13ac267b/
http://photofriends.org/seduction-corruption-deception-and-protection-the-black-widow-and-the-vice-queen-part-2/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Candaules_shows_Gyges_his_wife_Queen_Nyssia,_by_Jacques_Stella,_c._1645,_oil_on_canvas_-_John_and_Mable_Ringling_Museum_of_Art_-_Sarasota,_FL_-_DSC00619.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frans_van_Mieris_(I)_-_Gyges_in_de_slaapkamer_van_koning_Candaules_-_G_2345_-_Staatliches_Museum_Schwerin.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Jordaens-King_Candaules_of_Lydia_Showing_his_Wife_to_Gyges.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Etty-Candaules_King_of_Lydia_Shews_his_Wife_to_Gyges.JPG

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