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Related - someone turned his diary entries into tweets and it's amazing to follow: https://twitter.com/samuelpepys
Fun coincidence: "pepis" is the Esperanto word for "tweeted".
wasn't it kind of sexual revolution of post- Cromwell/Puritan England?
You will find intelligent people are more deviant and he was an intelligent person. In a way, you could say "Pedophilia - The stupid dont get it" and it would be true for a whole host of reasons.
It reads oddly today, with the lineup of men who have used their power to demand sexual favors, and then lost their positions for that.
Pepys’ old house on Buckingham Street in London was my office for a couple of years. It was nice but he seems to have had more fun there. I did encounter fellow cyclist and similarly adulterous Boris Johnson on his bike around there before he became world famous bumbling Brexiteer and Foreign Secretary.