Long-Censored Erotic Classic. What turned the Victorians on? And how did a rich British Lord with money and time to burn while away the days between charing meetings of the local society for the suppression of Vice? Here is what life was like when the rich were wealthy and the poor had to turn to prostituton just to earn a crust of bread. From ball rooms to bordellos, look beneath the glittering facade of Victorian hypocracy.