Part One: Introduction: 1. Extramarital Relations and Gender History -- 2. Reputation and Identity Female Honor: A Wife, a Widow, or a Maid Male Honor: Adultery, Sodomy, and Masturbation -- Part Two: Prostitution: 3. Male Libertinism Gentlemen and the Religion of Libertinism The Simple Libertine -- 4. Prostitution: Numbers and Topography The Number of Prostitutes Bawds and Bawdy Houses -- 5. The Prostitute's Life Recruitment into Prostitution The Prostitute's Trade -- 6. Prostitution Sentimentalized Domesticity and the Brothel The Prostitute Redeemed, 1750-90 -- 7. The Foul Disease Incidence and Prophylaxis Cures: Rape, the Lock Hospital, and Wifely Toleration -- Part Three: Illegitimacy and Rape: 8. Courtship or Libertinage St. Luke's Chelsea St. Margaret's Westminster St. Leonard's, Shoreditch St. Botolph's, Aldgate -- 9. Shame and Rape Maintaining a Woman's Reputation Infanticide: Delay and Denial Can a Woman Be Raped? -- Part Four: Adultery and Violence in Marriage: 10. Violence in Marriage Sexual Domination and the New Marriage Violence, Adultery, and the Established Marriage The Incarcerated Wife and the Remarrying Widow Marital Violence and the Poor -- 11. Desertion and Incompatibility The Deserted Spouse The Incompatible Spouse -- 12. Romance and Adultery Romantic Love and Divorce, 1750-90 Adultery and Domesticity in the 1790s -- Conclusion.
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