A History of Orgies Author:Burgo Partridge Mr. Partridge evaluates the motives behind orgies and examines to what extent social environment and individual psychology overlap in producing these phenomena. The sincerest exponents of Hedonism were the Greeks and it was their naive concept of sexuality that led, with or without religious pretext, to the orgy. Mr. Partridge also considers t... more »he Romans, Popes John XII Benedict IX, and Alexander VI, Michelangelo, the Restoration period, the 18th-century, and Victorian England.« less