touristry

First, Sadleir's novel justifies its sexual touristry with a critique of Victorian hypocritical respectability that, while it does not really comprehend the narrative, at least does not collide with it.

For the most part, as with his sexual touristry, Sadleir seems simply to want to exhibit his comfort in Victorian modes of linguistic presentation, both conversation and narrative.

Michel Faber's recent The Crimson Petal and the White (New York: Harcourt, 2002), with the same considerable historical knowledge and literary inventiveness, uses the Victorian period for essentially the same kind of historical sexual touristry.