fleshpot
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fleshpot (plural fleshpots)
- A place offering entertainment of a sensual or luxurious nature.
- 1884, Henry James, "A New England Winter" in The Century Magazine 28 (4–5) (August–September 1884).
- "This was absurd for a person who... had never before had such unrestricted access to the fleshpots. The fleshpots were full, under Donald Mesh's roof, and his wife could easily believe that the poor girl would not be in a hurry to return to her boarding-house in Brooklyn."
- 1909 December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 61:
- The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
- 1976 August 28, Bill Boletta, “'Man' Enough?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 4:
- Are you so pressed for funds to pay off that loan that you have sunk into the mire of selling macho sex a la the Advocate's fleshpot section which they call (in what the editors there probably think is a euphemism) "Trader Dick?"
- 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 107:
- The younger man is spirited away to the fleshpots of Malibu Beach, where he becomes tainted by exposure to a dissolute lifestyle.
- 1884, Henry James, "A New England Winter" in The Century Magazine 28 (4–5) (August–September 1884).
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place offering entertainment of a sensual or luxurious nature
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