books.google.com - In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde responded...http://books.google.com/books/about/Hellenism_and_homosexuality_in_Victorian.html?id=YFT_7wfus0QC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
