"John K. Taber" wrote:
>
> "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> asks:
>
> > Please define term "dangerous man." Proclivity to cheat?
> > Violent history?
> > Cool-looking leather jacket? Years of experience working in
> > high-radiation
> > areas?
>
> Lord Byron. Caroline Lamb (I think it was) said he was
> "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." It helped make Lord
> Byron one of the most desired men in England.
>
At that time anal intercourse was subject to the death penalty. And the probability is that she had threatened him with revealing his preference for such. His wife -- was that Caroline Lamb? It's been a long time since I read much trivia re the 1810s.
Carrol