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In 1718 a watchman caught sight of two people shagging while leaning against the rails of Covent Garden Church, not an unusual sight, but when he realised they were both men he started calling them filthy sodomites. In 18th-century England, what gay men called "picking up trade" was common in the covered arcades of the Royal Exchange and Covent Garden, where they competed with Women of Pleasure. And in the Temple bog house in 1707 a hole had been deliberately cut in the partition wall between two stalls – making it the first recorded glory hole. The Savoy bog house was used so regularly by gay men that members of the Society for the Reformation of Manners often posted themselves outside and could be sure of making an arrest there. In 18th-century London, gay men were regularly arrested in the Lincoln’s Inn bog house, on the east side of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. In Amsterdam in the 1760s many sodomites were arrested in the public toilets built next to the city’s numerous bridges favourite toilets were given nicknames, such as The Old Lady and The Long Lady. Dutch gay men in the early 18th century coined the word "kruisen", and their favourite cruising grounds were the quays along the waterfront. Public latrines and baths or "stews" were good pick-up spots in the late Middle Ages. Some things, like cruising and cottaging, have been popular for centuries. What sorts of things did gay men get up to in the past, and how much did these differ from what we get up to today? Does gay sex have a history, or do the forms of pleasure remain the same across centuries? Have some tastes declined, and new tastes arisen? Reprinted or redistributed without the permission of the author. Reproduction for sale or profit prohibited.