The English Aphrodites comprised an eighteenth-century Love Club - which arranged wife-swapping and a variety of other sexual diversions. Membership was £10,000 for a gentleman and £5,000 for a lady, plus a gift compatible with economic status. Fortunately the journal of a female member has been preserved. She provides a list of 4,959 amorous rendezvous for a period of twenty years. Among her lovers were princes and prelates

• 93 rabbis
• 439 monks
• 288 commoners
• 2 uncles
• 119 musicians
• 929 officers
• 342 financiers
• 420 society men
• 117 valets
• 12 cousins
• 47 negroes and 1,614 foreigners.