City of Sin

If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England''s capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that ''every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities''. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses...