This book is NOT a work of Fiction. It is not a speculative list of the perversions and vices attributed to the Hell-Fire Club, otherwise known as "Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe"If the previous reviewers found this book to be too dry, non-sensationalist, and uninteresting to the current bottom-feeders trying to read "naughty history" then they need to pick up one of the several examples of "Yellow Journalist" on this subject that will appeal to their purile and scatalogical interests, or perhaps a collection of "Readers Letters To Hustler."If however, the reader is interested in following an extensively researched recounting of the Hell-Fire Club's British and French precursors, and extensively covering both the Duke of Wharton's and Sir Francis Dashwood's subsequent Hell-Fire Clubs they will be well rewarded with as much real history as may likely be found on the actualy subject, and not the sensationalist blackening of characters attempted by the yellow journalists of the day, and to this very day: The Hellfire Club was a Gentleman's Club, like many others of its day. And to understand these clubs, one need look no further than City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London so see that the Hell-Fire Club was not nearly so far from the social norms and mores of 18th Century London, as many of its moralist detractors claimed at the time, and still claim today.