Professor John McCurdy

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in the American Revolution · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

So at the time it was on a main road.

walkway to go from the East River to the Hudson River.

So a number of sailors and others are going to walk down these streets past this area.

It's also in the immediate vicinity of King's College, which at the time was in this neighborhood, not too far from where City Hall is now.

Of course, later it moves up to Morningside Heights and gets renamed Columbia University.

So you have both sailors, soldiers and college students.

So those are.

Yep.

Those are your those are your customers.

Yeah, there probably aren't professional male sex workers in the in the days of the American Revolution the way there would be women, professional female sex workers.

But we do know we have different reports.

So, yeah, I wrote this book and I looked at Robert Newberg, who's a chaplain or was a chaplain in the British Army in the 18th Regiment.

And he arrives in Philadelphia in 1773.

to join his unit, again, as the religious leader, as the chaplain.

But when he arrives, rumors are following him that he had had sex with a male servant back in Ireland.

He was Irish.

And so he – right.

So this rumor gets around and spreads throughout his regiment and all the enlisted men and officers, and nobody will then –

Talk to him.

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