To curb the threats of overpopulation (especially of the poor) and to solve other social issues that were arising at the time, sex was socially regulated and controlled. There he had for classmates young men such as Richard Burke (son of the politician Edmund Burke) and John Thomas Smith (who later came to be known as "Antiquity" Smith, keeper of prints at the British Museum). The mother superior inducts her into a group of “favorites”, who are brought together to sexually play with each other, and also to act as “young men” to the mother superior by means of a strap-on. The revenge, of course, is for the cuckolded husband who has spent some suffocating moments waiting for the opportunity to catch his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto.

And if he were alive today, he would no doubt be very pleased to find us enjoying the art he had so much fun creating. But his closest pals were Jack Bannister, whose father was a well‑known actor, and Henry Angelo, son of the Royal Fencing Master.One night, after particularly heavy losses at the fashionable London gaming tables--another man might have thought himself ruined--­Rowlandson merely held up his reed pen and sketching pencil with a laugh saying, "These are my resources. In real Victorian life, female sexuality was problematic, and was only to be expressed in terms of domestic life. Then she is suspended by one foot and whipped extensively by her husband (still in guise of a priest) and another priest under the pretext that it will purge her of her sins.

Delightfully improbable, the scene is characteristic of the artist's approach to depicting sexual intercourse : almost invariably it is the tone of gayety and even mockery that prevails over any kind of lecherous titillation. One of the most valuable aspects of Rowlandson's art for stud­ents of history and art history is that he chronicled scenes from most of the prominent walks of life of his time. Much of Rowlandson is now hidden away in Windsor Castle, among what is known as the George IV collection.Sex was a main social topic, with progressive and enlightened thought pushing for sexual restriction and repression. For example, in his comments on one of Row­landson's finest compositions, "Exhibition Stare Case" Grego provides us with the following statement of his position.

An anecdote about Rowlandson's later adventures relates his unseemly glee at helping to identify a thief who was then tried, found guilty and hanged.This Edwardian enamel cigarette case has a subtly curved form proffering a comfortable fit in the majority of pockets. In addition to various Greco-Roman elements, such as the vase with the classic dolphin, and the scene at its base which may represent the rape of the Sabine women, there is the interesting Egyptian figure be­hind the girl's head. Another fiddler cavorts in the background, and there is a nude young lady in a very conventional pose at a wash tub. A touch of humor is also present in the apparent attempt of the figures in the painting be­hind the four gentlemen to look over their shoulders, while the maiden—with a delicate twist—in so doing bares her own charms. He takes her on a trip and lavishes attention upon her, then tricks her into confessing all her sins to a priest (himself in disguise).