Sporting man culture
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The sporting man culture involves men leading hedonistic lifestyles that included keeping mistresses as well excessive eating, drinking, smoking, gambling, and big game hunting. It is applied to a large group of middle- and upper-class men in the mid-19th century, most often in Great Britain and the United States. The definition has little to do with actually playing sports. Edward VII and his companion are regarded[according to whom?] as practitioners of the sporting man culture.
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Further reading[]
- Lobel, Cindy R. (April 28, 2014). Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226128757.
References[]
- Fromkin, David (2008). The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. New York: Penguin Press.
Categories:
- Sports culture
- Drinking culture
- Men's culture
- Gambling terminology
- Smoking