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