On moonlit nights in the reign of King George, aristocrats, intellectuals, artists and freethinkers of the age could be seen travelling in gondolas up the river Thames from London to the banks of an old ruined abbey at the base of a large hill deep in the countryside.
There, to the sonorous tolling of the deconsecrated cloister bell, they changed into hooded robes inscribed with the motto 'Love & Friendship' before descending into the dark catacombs that ran a mile underground below the abbey.
In prehistoric times the caves were used for pagan rituals but now served as a clandestine meeting place where likeminded people could enjoy companionship and conversation as well as engage in what society regarded as immoral sexual scenes and activities.
These otherwise respectable ladies and gentlemen cast off the sexual inhibitions and restrictions imposed by society to become a perverted congregation of debauched rakes and wanton sluts indulging in all manner of depraved, ritualistic displays of sexual domination & submission. As satyr and nymph disciples of Bacchus and Venus they pushed the boundaries of physical sex to new limits while exploring the psychological and emotional aspects of love and lust, power and control.
This exclusive group of hedonistic libertines were to become infamous in history as the notorious Hellfire Club. Nobody knew for sure what really went on in those carnal caverns except the members, and they never revealed their sordid secrets.
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