Social:Sporting man culture

Edward VII of the United Kingdom is regarded as a "sporting man"

The sporting man culture involves men leading hedonistic lifestyles that include 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 "Sporting Joe" Aylesford are regarded as practitioners of the sporting man culture.

See also

• Joseph Caulfield James

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.