Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners r

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We know more about men who sought and had sex with men in eighteenth-century Paris than in any other city at the time. Police records provide information about